Aeoloderma crucifer (Rossi, 1790)

Elater crucifer Rossi, 1790: 183 .

Aeoloderma crucifer: Platia, 1994: 38 . For more information, including synonyms, see Platia (1994) and Cate (2007).

Distribution. Albania, Algeria, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Azores, Bulgaria, Cyprus, Egypt, France, Georgia, Greece, Iran, Israel, Italy, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Libya, Macedonia, Montenegro, Morocco, Pakistan, Portugal, Romania, Russia, Spain, Syria, Tunisia, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, Uzbekistan (Platia & Serrano 2002, Cate 2007, Ptashkovsky 2009, Pedroni & Platia 2010, Platia 2010b, Akhter et al. 2012 a, Naz et al. 2012, Platia & Ghahari 2016, Platia & Pulvirenti 2021b).

Literature. Cate (2007: 103): catalogue; Pedroni & Platia (2010: 70): distributional remark; Akhter et al. (2012a: 47): catalogue, distributional record from Pakistan; Naz et al. (2012: 78): revision, figures of habitus and male genitalia; Platia & Ghahari (2016: 243): distributional remark; Platia & Pulvirenti (2021b: 16): distributional remark.