Cossyphus ( Cossyphus ) moniliferus moniliferus Chevrolat, 1829

Háva, Jiří, 2007, List of specimens of the tribe Cossyphini (Coleoptera: Tenebrionidae) kept in the National Museum, Praha, Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae 47, pp. 183-187 : 186

6. Cossyphus ( Cossyphus) moniliferus moniliferus Chevrolat, 1829

Cossyphus ( Cossyphus) moniliferus moniliferus Chevrolat, 1829 : SCUPOLA (2000): 218.

Cossyphus ( Cossyphus) insularis Castelnau, 1840 : SCUPOLA (2000): 218.

Material examined. ALGERIA: ‘St Charles, Algérie, A. Théry’ // ‘Coss. Monilifer, Det. Dr. Obenberger’, 1 spec. ( NMPC); ‘Algeria, 30 km S Ksar-el-Boughari, 25.5.1974 ’ // ‘Exp. Magreb, Nat. Mus. Praha’, 1 spec. ( NMPC); ‘Algeria, Reitter’ // ‘Mus. Pragense, col. Kamberský’ // ‘ Cossyphus substriatus’ // ‘ Cossyphus insularis Cast. , det. Schuster’, 1 spec. ( NMPC). ITALY: ‘Catania, Sicilia’ // ‘ Cossyphus moniliferus Ch., Boh. Kouřil det.’ // ‘6307’, 8 spec. (7 NMPC, 1 JHAC); ‘Asuni, Sardinia’, 1 spec. ( NMPC); ‘Sicilia’ // ‘insularis’, 2 spec. ( NMPC); ‘Sicilia’, 1 spec. ( NMPC); ‘ Sicilia, Cossyphus insularis’, 1 spec. ( NMPC); ‘ Sicilia, Reitter’ // ‘ Cossyphus insularis Lap. , det. Hlisnikowski 1942’, 1 spec. ( NMPC). SPAIN: CANARY ISLANDS, ‘Teneriffa, Laguna, K. M. Heller’ // ‘ Cossyphus insularis Lap. ’, 1 spec. ( NMPC). SUDAN: ‘Sudan, Blue Nile, Qardud, 11.2.1967, Štys / 615’, 2 spec. ( NMPC); ‘Sudan, 4.ii.[19]66, Shambat, Dr. P. Štys lgt.’, 1 spec. ( NMPC).

Distribution. Species known from Algeria, Benin, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cameroon, Chad, Congo, Egypt, Ethiopia, Greece, Guinea, Gambia, Italy (including Sardinia and Sicilia), Kenya, Libya, Mali, Malta, Mauretania, Niger, Nigeria, Portugal ( Madeira), Senegal, Spain ( Baleares Islands, Canary Islands), Sudan, Syria, and Tunisia ( SCUPOLA 2000).