Trox scaber (Linnaeus, 1767)

Ziani, Stefano, Bezděk, Aleš, Branco, Tristão, Hillert, Oliver, Jákl, Stanislav, Král, David, Mantič, Marion, Rössner, Eckehard & Sehnal, Richard, 2015, New country records of Scarabaeoidea (Coleoptera) from the Palaearctic Region, Insecta Mundi 2015 (409), pp. 1-36 : 4

Trox scaber (Linnaeus, 1767)

Material examined. ALBANIA: Shkodër, Rozafa fortress, 42°02’05’’N 19°29’54’’E, ca 30 m, 28.iv.2013, D. Král leg., under chicken remnants (2 spec. in DKCP) . GREECE: Central Macedonia, Kassandra , 15.viii.1994, M. Eifler leg. (1 spec. in MECP) ; Euboea, Nea Styra , 6.-13.vi.2010, O. Blochwitz leg. (1 spec. OBCG) ; Thessaly, Larissa, Stomio , at light, 5.vi.2012, E. Heise leg. (1 spec. in EHCV, 1 spec. in WZCR), 14.vi.2012, M. Eifler leg. (1 spec. in MECP) ; Epirus, Joannina, Konitsa , 40°02’N 20°44’E, 445 m, at light, 7.vi.2012, M. Eifler leg. (1 spec. in MECP) ; Crete, Kato Symi , 21.v.-5.vi.2013, O. Blochwitz leg. (2 spec. in OBCG) .

Distribution. Nearly cosmopolitan, in the Palaearctic from Iberian Peninsula to Japan, also listed from North Africa. Recorded from Slovenia ( Brelih et al. 2010), Kazakhstan ( Nikolajev 1987), Turkey ( Keith 2011) and Malta ( Pivotti et al. 2011). New records from Albania and from continental and insular Greece.