Sphaericus (Sphaericus) gibboides (Boieldieu, 1854)

= pinguius (Wollaston, 1854)

Borowski 2007: 338; Hagstrum & Subramanyam 2009: 170; Zahradník 2016b: 118.

Distribution. P: AG AZ CH i CI CY i CZ i DE i FI i FR GB i GE i GR i HU i IR i IT MO MR NL i PL i PT RU i SP SV i UK i A i: AS NZ E i: MB SF I i.: ID VT N i. CN US Nt i: BZ CL. Cosmopolitan (Erber 2000; Borowski 2007; Hagstrum & Subramanyam 2009). Originally probably from the Macaronesia Region or Western Mediterranean.

Alien status. Probably introduced to Cyprus, originally from the western Mediterranean, Azores and Canary Is.