Sphecodes albilabris is a solitary parasitic bee that is endemic to Central and Western Europe.

It also occurs in North Africa and is thought to have been introduced to the United States and Australia by accident.

In Eurasia it occurs from Portugal via Europe, Asia Minor, Levant, Caucasus, Central Asia and Siberia to the Pacific coast of the Far East, reaches the oriental fauna region in northwest India (Uttar Pradesh); north to 60 ° N in Norway (Hønefoss), 62.5 ° N in Sweden (Västernorrland), 63.5 ° N in Finland (North Karelia), in Russia to Karelia and Kirov; south to Sicily, Crete, Cyprus and Israel.

rubripes SPINOLA, 1838 occurs in North Africa, Levante, Iberia including the Balearic Islands, Sardinia and Cyprus.

[2] From Latin "albus" = "white" and "labrum" = "lip"; because of the snow-white hairy lower half of the face of the male.