Sphex rufipes Linnaeus, 1758: 571. Lectotype, ♀, “in Europa” (Sweden), designated by Day 1979b: 71, deposited in Collection of the Linnean Society, London, United Kingdom.
Material examined. (7) 2♂, 2.VII.2014, AL, MP, VL; (10) 2♂, 29. VI.2014, AL, MP, VL; (12) 9♀, 11♂, 28, 29.VII.2014, AL, MP, VL [EATB].
Distribution. Russia: European part (North-West, Centre, East, South, North Caucasus, Crimea), Ural, Eastern Siberia (* Khakassia, Irkutsk Prov., Buryat Rep., Zabaikalskii Terr.), Far East (Amur Prov., Khabarovsk Terr., Primorskii Terr., Sakhalin, Kamchatka Terr., Magadan Prov.). Widely distributed Palaearctic species from Western Europe and North Africa in the West to Japan in the East.
Remarks. This species is newly recorded from Khakassia.