Cossyphus (Cossyphus) moniliferus moniliferus Chevrolat, 1829

Háva, Jiří, 2007, List of specimens of the tribe Cossyphini (Coleoptera: Tenebrionidae) kept in the National Museum, Praha, Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae 47, pp. 183-187 : 186

6. Cossyphus (Cossyphus) moniliferus moniliferus Chevrolat, 1829

Cossyphus (Cossyphus) moniliferus moniliferus Chevrolat, 1829 : SCUPOLA (2000): 218.

Cossyphus (Cossyphus) insularis Castelnau, 1840 : SCUPOLA (2000): 218.

Material examined. ALGERIA: ‘St Charles, Algérie, A. Théry’ // ‘Coss. Monilifer, Det. Dr. Obenberger’, 1 spec. ( NMPC); ‘Algeria, 30 km S Ksar-el-Boughari, 25.5.1974 ’ // ‘Exp. Magreb, Nat. Mus. Praha’, 1 spec. ( NMPC); ‘Algeria, Reitter’ // ‘Mus. Pragense, col. Kamberský’ // ‘ Cossyphus substriatus’ // ‘ Cossyphus insularis Cast. , det. Schuster’, 1 spec. ( NMPC). ITALY: ‘Catania, Sicilia’ // ‘ Cossyphus moniliferus Ch., Boh. Kouřil det.’ // ‘6307’, 8 spec. (7 NMPC, 1 JHAC); ‘Asuni, Sardinia’, 1 spec. ( NMPC); ‘Sicilia’ // ‘insularis’, 2 spec. ( NMPC); ‘Sicilia’, 1 spec. ( NMPC); ‘ Sicilia, Cossyphus insularis’, 1 spec. ( NMPC); ‘ Sicilia, Reitter’ // ‘ Cossyphus insularis Lap. , det. Hlisnikowski 1942’, 1 spec. ( NMPC). SPAIN: CANARY ISLANDS, ‘Teneriffa, Laguna, K. M. Heller’ // ‘ Cossyphus insularis Lap. ’, 1 spec. ( NMPC). SUDAN: ‘Sudan, Blue Nile, Qardud, 11.2.1967, Štys / 615’, 2 spec. ( NMPC); ‘Sudan, 4.ii.[19]66, Shambat, Dr. P. Štys lgt.’, 1 spec. ( NMPC).

Distribution. Species known from Algeria, Benin, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cameroon, Chad, Congo, Egypt, Ethiopia, Greece, Guinea, Gambia, Italy (including Sardinia and Sicilia), Kenya, Libya, Mali, Malta, Mauretania, Niger, Nigeria, Portugal (Madeira), Senegal, Spain (Baleares Islands, Canary Islands), Sudan, Syria, and Tunisia ( SCUPOLA 2000).