Nicobium castaneum (Olivier, 1790)

= tomentosum (Mulsant & Rey, 1863)

Baudi di Selve 1874: 329; Zahradník 2007a: 342; Hagstrum & Subramanyam 2009: 128; Denux & Zagatti 2010: 344; Zahradník 2016b: 97.

Distribution. P: AB AG AU AZ BH CH CI CR CY i CZ EG FR GE i GR IS IT JA LB MA MO MR PT RO RU SL SP SY SZ i TR UK N i: US Nt i: AY BZ MX. Europe, Caucasus, northern Africa, Asia, introduced to Nearctic and Neotropical Regions (White 1982; Zahradník 2007a; Hagstrum & Subramanyam 2009).

Alien status. Considered “cryptogenic” (i.e., of unknown origin), possibly introduced to Cyprus (Denux & Zagatti 2010).