Gorytes quinquecinctus (FABRICIUS 1793)

M a t e r i a l e x a m i n e d: Mount Etna, Tremestieri Etneo, 350 m (Catania), 19. V.1993, 1 (G.F. Turrisi leg.) ; 16.V.1994, 1 (G.F. Turrisi leg.); Mount Etna, slopes of Mount San Leo, 1000 m (Belpasso, Catania), 4. VI.1992, 1 (G.F. Turrisi leg.) ; 24.VI.1992, 1, 3 (G.F. Turrisi leg.); 7- 9.VII.1992, 2 (G.F. Turrisi leg.); 2.VI.1993, 7 (G.F. Turrisi leg.); 26.VI.1999, 1 (G.F. Turrisi leg.).

R e m a r k s: First record for Sicily! Widespread in Europe, Turkey, and Kazakhstan, its presence in N-Africa is not confirmed (BITSCH et al. 1997). It is recorded from the whole peninsular Italy, as south as Calabria. The specimens from Mount San Leo were collected on flowers of several Apiaceae: Ferula communis L., Thapsia garganica L., and Opopanax chironium L. All the male specimens examined have clypeus and pronotal lobes extensively yellow, as females.