Astata gallica DE BEAUMONT 1942

M a t e r i a l e x a m i n e d: Piana di Catania, Primosole (Catania), 3.VIII.1996, 1 (G.F. Turrisi leg.).

R e m a r k s: Recently recorded from Sicily by SCHMID- EGGER (2003). This species is present in south-west Europe, as north as Hungary and Slovakia, and in North Africa. In Italy, outside Sicily, it was previously recorded only from Latium, Apulia, Basilicata and Sardinia.