Aeolus melliculus Candèze, 1859

Ruzzier, Enrico, Tomasi, Filippo, Platia, Giuseppe & Pulvirenti, Edoardo, 2021, Exotic Elateridae (Coleoptera: Elateroidea) in Italy: An Overview, The Coleopterists Bulletin 75 (3), pp. 673-679 : 675

Aeolus melliculus Candèze, 1859 ( Fig. 2A )

Origin. Neotropical.

Palearctic Distribution. Portugal (Azores) (Cate 2007); Portugal, Cyprus ( Mertlik 2012); Spain (Zapata de la Vega et al. 2013); Italy ( Jarzabek-Müller 2019).

Italian Records. Tuscany, Elba Island, Portoferraio ( Livorno ), loc. S. Giovanni 10.VI.2016, leg. L. Forbicioni, 1 ex ( LFPC) ( Jarzabek-Müller 2019) ; Lazio, near Tor San Lorenzo ( Roma ), 41.5633013, 12.5648635, 5.XII.2019, leg. V. Viglioglia, 1 ex ( VVPC) . Tuscany, Elba Island, Portoferraio ( Livorno ), loc. S. Giovanni , 42.801016, 10.313207, 26.XI.2019, leg. L. Forbicioni, 2 exx ( LFPC) .

Note. All the specimen from Elba Island were collected in a flooded cultivated field, sifting plant debris. The specimen from Tor San Lorenzo was hand collected inside a private butterfly house set up with exotic plants. In both cases a plant nursery was in close contact with the discovery site.

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Fig. 2. Dorsal habitus. A) Aeolus melliculus, B) Conoderus posticus (including color variability), C) Heteroderes vagus.