Phalacronothus fumigatulus ( Reitter, 1892 )

Ziani, Stefano, Bezděk, Aleš, Branco, Tristão, Hillert, Oliver, Jákl, Stanislav, Král, David, Mantič, Marion, Rössner, Eckehard & Sehnal, Richard, 2015, New country records of Scarabaeoidea (Coleoptera) from the Palaearctic Region, Insecta Mundi 2015 (409), pp. 1-36 : 10-11

Phalacronothus fumigatulus ( Reitter, 1892)

Material examined. MACEDONIA: Novaci Municipality, Skočivir env., 40°58’N 21°38’E, ca 580 m, 19.-21.iv.2014, D. Král leg., sheep droppings (5 spec. in DKCP) . IRAN: West Azerbaijan Prov., 40 km S Orumiye , 1400 m, 15.v.2002, G. Sama leg. (1 ♀ in SZCM) ; Fars Prov., Seydan , 1500 m, 12.iv.1998, S. Ziani leg. (1 ♂ in SZCM) .

Distribution. East Mediterranean species so far known from the Balkans, Armenia, Georgia, Israel, Lebanon, Syria, Turkey and Turkmenistan; for the Balkan Peninsula hitherto recorded only from Bulgaria and Greece (cf. e.g. Balthasar 1964; Baraud 1992; Chikatunov and Pavlíček 1997; Král and Malý 1993). First records from Macedonia and Iran.

Responsible authors: D. Král and S. Ziani