Ammatomus coarctatus (SPINOLA, 1808) (fig. 8)

Gorytes coarctatus SPINOLA, 1808: 245, sex not indicated. Syntypes: males, Italy: Liguria: near Novas (Mus. Zool. Univ. Torino).

Gorytes handlirschi F. MORAWITZ, 1890: 610, male, female (as Handlirschi, incorrect original capitalization). Lectotype: female, Turkmenistan: Askhabad (ZIN), designated by PULAWSKI (1973).

Gorytes mavromoustakisi BALTHASAR, 1954: 149, male Holotype: male, Cyprus: Yermasoyia River (V. Balthasar coll., Prague).

Gorytes mitjaevi KAZENAS, 1972: 148:, male, female, Holotype: female, Kazakhstan: Lavar 90 km NE Alma Ata (ZIN).

S p e c i m e n s e x a m i n e d f r o m: Europe: Greece, France, Italy, Ukraine, Croatia, Czech Republic, Cyprus. Asia: Armenia, Kazakhstan, Kirghistan, Turkmenia, Turkey, Iran, Syria, Jordan.

R e c o g n i t i o n: The species is unique by a dense and coarse punctation of mesosoma in combination with a medially largely interrupted band on T1.

D i s t r i b u t i o n: Southern Central and Southern Europe to Central Asia, southwards to Israel and Jordan, one doubtful record from Algeria before 1898 (see PULAWSKI 1973).