(Fig. 3 a–f, female; Fig. 4 a–j, male)
Anthidium cingulatum Latreille, 1809: 43, ♀, ♂; Dalla Torre, 1896: 457; Banaszak & Romasenko, 1998: 46, ♀ (key), Fig. VI-14; 51, ♂ (key), Fig. V-17, -18; 51.
Anthidium oraniense Lepeletier, 1841: 361, ♂. (as Oraniense)
Anthidium dissectum Eversmann, 1852: 80, ♂.
Anthidium imitator Smith, 1879: 85, ♂.
Anthidium rufispinum Costa, 1883: 96, ♂.
Anthidium manicatum var. undulatofasciatum Friese, 1917: 58, ♀; Rasmussen & Ascher, 2008: 106. Anthidium (Anthidium) cingulatum Latreille, 1809: Warncke, 1980: 134 ♀ (key), 142, ♂ (key), 199; Özbek & Zanden, 1993: 194; Rasmont et al., 1995: 54; Ornosa et al., 2008: 66; Aguib et al., 2010: 128; Murao et al., 2015: 8, Fig.8; Fateryga et al., 2020: 325.
Diagnosis: The anterior side wavy yellow bands on female metasomal terga are obvious, sometimes these bands are interrupted in middle on T1–T5 (Fig. 3e), female clypeus yellow, but with a black large maculation in middle (Fig. 3c), propodeal enclosure highly tessellate, punctures shallow and indistinct, posterior lateral margin of axilla and posterior margin of scutellum yellow (Fig. 3d); male is similar to Anthidium (A.) pseudophilorumsp. nov., but lateral lobe of T7 longer, recurved and spiniform (Fig. 4f), median spine of S7 much shorter than submedian spine (Fig. 4f), T2 puncture density lower and size larger in basal half.
Material examined: China, Xinjiang: Ürümqi Shi, Shuimogou District, Yilonggelin (43º47′N, 87º43′E), 928 m, 1 ♂ (on flower of Centaurea sp.), 17.VIII.2015, leg. Ze-Qing NIU; Tacheng, Yumin Xian, Tasiti (43º36′N, 82º30′E), 1109 m, 9.VIII.2016, leg. Chao-Dong ZHU and Dan ZHANG; Altay Shi, Tala (47º53′N, 87º55′E), 930 m, 1 ♀, 14.VIII.1960, leg. Shu-Yong WANG.
Type localities. France: Occitanie: Hérault: Montpellier (cingulatum), Algeria: Oran: Oran (oraniense), Russia: Urals (dissectum), India: Northern India (imitator), Italy: Sardinia: Sardinia (rufispinum), Azerbaijan: Xanlar: Üçbulaq [as Murut] (undulatofasciatum).
Distribution: Widespread in the Palaearctic from North Africa and Portugal to China and Russia. China (Xinjiang); Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Libya; Italy, Portugal, Spain, France, Switzerland, Austria, Germany, Czechia, Slovakia, Hungary, Slovenia, Croatia, Serbia, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Greece, Bulgaria, Romania, Ukraine, Turkey, Georgia, Azerbaijan, Cyprus, Iran, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan (Chüy; Ysyk-Köl), Uzbekistan, India (Punjab), Russia (North Caucasus, European part, Urals).
Floral association:Leonurus sp., Stachys sp., Salvia sp. (Lamiaceae), Lotus sp., Medicago sp., Coronilla sp., Trifolium sp., Onobrychis viciifolia (Fabaceae), Carduus sp., Centaurea sp., Helianthus sp. (Asteraceae) (Banaszak & Romasenko, 1998; Murao et al., 2015).