Distribution. New record (!) RUSSIA: 1♀, Sarepta [= Volgograd], leg. Bakker (ZISP). Outside Europe known from Armenia and Kazakhstan (!): 1♀, Yanvartsevo, 21.v.1949, leg. Rudolf (ZISP).
Remarks. Brooks (1988) erroneously classified this species into the subgenus Anthomegilla Marikovskaya, 1976. This species undoubtedly belongs to the subgenus Lophanthophora Brooks, 1988.