Cossyphus (Cossyphus) hoffmannseggi Herbst, 1797

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 : 185-186

4. Cossyphus (Cossyphus) hoffmannseggi Herbst, 1797

Cossyphus (Cossyphus) hoffmannseggi Herbst, 1797 : SCUPOLA (2000): 237.

Cossyphus (Cossyphus) depressus Fabricius, 1801 : SCUPOLA (2000): 237.

Cossyphus (Cossyphus) hoffmannseggi var. sublaevis Kocher, 1953 : SCUPOLA (2000): 237.

Cossyphus (Cossyphus) hoffmannseggi ssp. bletoni Antoine, 1953 : SCUPOLA (2000): 237.

Cossyphus (Cossyphus) hoffmannseggi ssp. rifensis Kocher, 1963 : SCUPOLA (2000): 237.

Material examined. ALGERIA: ‘ Oran,Alg., B. Kouřil’, 7 spec. ( NMPC); ‘ Algier, Reitter Leder’, 1 spec. ( NMPC); ‘Tlemcen’, 4 spec. ( NMPC); ‘Algeria’ // ‘C. rivularis’, 1 spec. ( NMPC); ‘Algir’ // ‘ Cossyphus Hoffmannseggi , det.: F. Kasper.’, 1 spec. ( NMPC). FRANCE: ‘Corsica’, 4 spec. ( NMPC). ITALY: ‘Sicilia’, 1 spec. ( NMPC); ‘Sardinia’ // ‘6304’, 1 spec. ( NMPC). MOROCCO: ‘Tetuan, J. Váca’, 4 spec. ( NMPC). PORTUGAL: ‘ Lissabon, Lusitania’, 2 spec. ( NMPC); ‘ Lissabon, Portugal’ // ‘ Cossyphus Hoffmannseggi Hbst , det. Hlisnikowski 1942’, 1 spec. ( NMPC); ‘ Lissabon, Flach’, 6 spec. (5 NMPC, 1 JHAC). SPAIN: ‘Algericas [= Algeciras],Andalusia’ // ‘ Cossyphus Hoffmannseggi Hbst , det. Hlisnikowski 1942’, 9 spec. (8 NMPC, 1 JHAC); ‘Hispania’, 1 spec. ( NMPC); ‘Hispania, Algeciras’, 2 spec. ( NMPC); ‘Hispania’, 1 spec. ( NMPC); ‘Hispania,Algeciras’, 1 spec. ( NMPC); ‘Algeciras’ // ‘Espagne, 1902’ // ‘ Cossyphus Hoffmannseggi’, 2 spec. ( NMPC); ‘Algeciras, Andalusien, Prof.G. Strobl’ // ‘ Cossyphus Hoffmannseggi Hbst , det. Hlisnikowski 1942’, 1 spec. ( NMPC); ‘Spanien’, 1 spec. ( NMPC); ‘Algeciras, 5-4-[19]06, coll. Schramm’ // ‘ Cossyphus Hoffmannseggi Hbst , det. Hlisnikowski 1942’, 2 spec. ( NMPC); ‘Andalusie’, 2 spec. ( NMPC); ‘Algeciras, Hispania’ // ‘ Cossyphus Hoffmannseggi’ // ‘Coll. Mulač’ // ‘ Cossyphus Hoffmannseggi , det.

Schuster’, 1 spec. ( NMPC) ; ‘ Hispania’, 4 spec. ( NMPC) ; ‘ Hispan:’, 1 spec. ( NMPC) ; ‘ Granada’ // ‘ Hoffmannseggi, Det. Obenberger’, 1 spec. ( NMPC) ; ‘ Pyrénées’, 1 spec. ( NMPC) .

Distribution. Species known from Algeria, Morocco, Portugal and Spain ( SCUPOLA 2000). New species for France ( Corsica) and Italy (Sardinia, Sicily).