Dermestes (Dermestes) vorax Motschulsky, 1860

Nardi, Gianluca & Hava, Jiri, 2013, Italian Dermestidae: notes on some species and an updated checklist (Coleoptera), ZooKeys 360, pp. 45-81 : 48

Dermestes (Dermestes) vorax Motschulsky, 1860

Dermestes vorax Motschulsky, 1860: Denux and Zagatti 2010: 357.

Dermestes (Dermestes) vorax Motschulsky, 1860: Háva and Nardi 2011: 408.

Material examined.

None.

Chorotype.

Asiatic ( Háva 2003, 2007). This species was introduced to the coastal Croatia ( Depoli 1928, Luigioni 1929, Porta 1934, all as Dermestes vorax Motsch.), but this record was later ignored ( Mroczkowski 1968, Háva 2003, 2007, Zhantiev 2011a).

Italian distribution.

Italy (without further details) ( Denux and Zagatti 2010).

Remarks.

Denux and Zagatti (2010) wrote that an Italian record of this species was provided by Lohse (1979) and Háva (2003), but in these papers this species is not recorded from this country. Moreover, a recent record from “Italy” (http://www.dermestidae.wz.cz/main.html;http://www.dermestidae.com/index.html) is erroneous since concerns a dark specimen of Dermestes (Dermestes) lardarius Linnaeus, 1758 (Hava, unpublished data), so it was ignored by Háva and Nardi (2011).