Colotes maculatus (Castelnau de Laporte, 1836)

Švihla, Vladimír & Mifsud, David, 2006, Annotated review of the Cantharidae and Malachiidae (Coleoptera) of the Maltese Islands, Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae 46, pp. 89-105 : 95

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scientific name	Colotes maculatus (Castelnau de Laporte, 1836)
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Malachius maculatus Castelnau de Laporte, 1836: 29 . Colotes maculatus: CAMERON & CARUANA GATTO (1907) : 397.

Material examined. MALTA: 1 ex. ( BMNH): 5503 [= 21 Aug. , Colotes maculatus, Ghirgenti ] // M. Cameron Coll. B.M. 1936-555 ; 1 ex. ( BMNH): M. Cameron Coll. B.M. 1936-555 ; 2 exs. ( DMZM): Salina , 11.vii.2002, leg. D. Mifsud ; 2 exs. ( DMZM, NMPC): Bahrija , 20.iv.2002, leg. D. Mifsud.

Distribution. Libya, Tunisia, Algeria, Morocco, Portugal, Spain, Balearics, S France, Corsica, Sardinia, Italy, Sicily, Austria, Croatia, Greece, Crete, Turkey, Syria ( HORION 1953), Montenegro, Macedonia, Bulgaria, Georgia (unpublished records, coll. NMPC).

Comments. CAMERON & CARUANA GATTO (1907) reported the occurrence of Colotes maculatus in Malta as ‘general’.