Afranthidium (Mesanthidium) carduele (Morawitz, 1876) malacopygum (Gribodo, 1894)

Distribution: Afranthidium carduele is distributed in Spain and North Africa to Greece, Bulgaria, Turkey, the Caucasus, and the Middle East (Aguib et al. 2010). The subspecies malacopygum is found in Iberia, Morocco, and Algeria, and carduele s.s. is found in the eastern part of the range.

New data: PORTUGAL: Trás-os-Montes, Bragança, França, 25.vii.2018, 1♀, det. G. Le Goff, leg. R. Andrade .

Notes: The status of subspecies malacopygum may need to be revised in the future given the non-overlapping West Mediterranean distribution compared to the easterly distribution of the subspecies carduele s.s.