Passaloecus pictus RIBAUT 1952

M a t e r i a l e x a m i n e d: Mount Etna, c.da Milia, 1250 m (Ragalna, Catania), 21.VI.2000, 1 (S. Tomarchio leg.).

R e m a r k s: Recently recorded from Sicily by SCHMID- EGGER (2003). S-Europe and Turkey. It is recorded from peninsular Italy, as south as Latium and Abruzzo. The specimen examined has the labium entirely brown, more or less dark, without yellowish notes, and without a V-shaped whitish spot, normally present.