Attagenus (Attagenus) silvaticus Zhantiev, 1976

Nardi, Gianluca & Hava, Jiri, 2013, Italian Dermestidae: notes on some species and an updated checklist (Coleoptera), ZooKeys 360, pp. 45-81 : 52-53

Attagenus (Attagenus) silvaticus Zhantiev, 1976

Attagenus (Attagenus) silvaticus Zhantiev, 1976: Háva and Nardi 2007: 122.

Attagenus silvaticus Zhantiev, 1976: Zhantiev 2011a.

Material examined.

Apulia: Foggia prov., [GNP,] Foresta Umbra, Vico del Gargano, Bosco Sfilzi, 391 m, 33T 585633 4634653, 23.V.2010, D. Birtele & I. Toni leg., window flight trap, Prog. Foresta Umbra, 1 ♀ (CNBFVR).

Chorotype.

European (Czech Republic, Hungary, northwestern Russia, Sicily, Slovakia, Ukraine) with extension eastward to “Caucasus”, Anatolia, Iran and West Siberia ( Háva 2007, Háva and Nardi 2007, Háva et al. 2010, as Attagenus silvaticus , Zhantiev 2011a).

Italian distribution.

Sicily ( Háva and Nardi 2007, Zhantiev 2011a).

Remarks.

First record for mainland Italy. The above specimen was intercepted in a beech wood (D. Birtele, pers. comm., 2012).