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Published on: July 24, 2015
Ptilodactyla exotica Chapin, 1927 in Italy (Coleoptera: Ptilodactylidae)
Gianluca Nardi1, Maura Bocci, Roberto Poggi
1Centro Nazionale Carabinieri Biodiversità "Bosco Fontana", Strada Mantova, 29, I-46045 Marmirolo (MN), Italy.. l_nardi@hotmail.com.
Zootaxa
|October 15, 2020
Abstract:
Ptilodactyla exotica Chapin, 1927 is a subcosmopolitan synanthropic species introduced to Europe with tropical ornamental plants. It is here firstly recorded from central Italy (Tuscany region), and its Italian chronogeonemy (1940-2016) is summarized. Most records come from the Genoa province (Northern Italy, Liguria region), where this species was repeatedly collected in the period 1940-1999.
