New data about the distribution of some taxa of the genus Ophrys L. (Orchidaceae) in Catalonia and the Valentian Country, Spain

Some data on the chorology of some species and hybrids of the genus Ophrys are offered. We have found important populations of O. araneola in central Catalonia, similar to those which have been spotted previously farther north. The presence in Catalonia of O. santonica is confirmed, and the distribution area of O. sulcata is extended considerably to the south from the only previous known catalonian locality, very near the French border. Three new localities, respectively of O. apifera × O. scolopax, O. dyris and O. tenthredinifera, are presented, that from O. dyris being one of the two more northern catalonian localities of this species. O. scolopax × O. speculum has been found for the first time in the Alacant province in the Valentian Country, representing the second finding of this hybrid in the Iberian Peninsula.