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New records- Catania: Monte Etna: versante settentrionale, Piano Provenzana 1800 m, 23.VI.2001,
Leg. Baviera C.; ditto, versante merictionale, Adrano, Osservatorio, 1600 m, 12.VI.20ll bosco misto,
Leg. Baviera C. ; Palermo: Isola di Ustica, 28-29.IX.2002, Leg. Baviera C. ; Messina: Isole Eolie,
Vulcano, loc. Piano, 300m, 24-29.VII.2001, Leg. Baviera C.; Alicudi, 30.1X.2006, Leg. Baviera C.;
Filicudi, OLX.2006, Leg. Baviera C.; Monti Peloritani: Rometta, Gimello, San Leone, I8.X.2007,
Leg. Baviera C.; Monte Scuderi, 25.VI.2005, Leg. Baviera C.; Monte Ciccia, 500 m, l LVI.2009, Leg.
Baviera C.; Monte Antennammare, 1133 m, 04.VI.2000, Leg. Baviera C.; ditto 26.XJ.2010, vaglio
Quercus, Leg. Baviera C. ; Siracusa: Buccheri, 28.V.2010, Leg. Baviera C.; Portopalo Capo Passero,
Isola Correnti, 02.XL2010, Leg. Baviera C. and Bello C.

Notes. Common species in Italy, known until now for Sicily from Nebrodi and Peloritani
Mounts (Leonardi 1976; Biondi 1988, 2006), Pantelleria (Pelagie Islands) and Lipari Island
(Aeolian Islands) (Leonardi 1976; Ratti 1987; Lo Cascio et al. 2006), never recorded from
Etna Mount, Ustica lsland and others Aeolian lslands.

Longitarsus suturellus (Duftschmid, 1825)

Chorotype - ASE
Host plants - AST
Trophic category - OLI

Notes. Species reported only generically for Sicily (B iondi 1990, 2005-2013).

Longitarsus tabidus (Fabricius, 1775)

Chorotype - PAL
Host plants - SCR (Verbascum, rarely Scrophularia)
Trophic category - MON
New records - Messina: Torre Faro, contr. Granatari, 10.X.l998, Leg. Baviera C.; Monti Peloritani:
Montalbano Elicona, Bosco di Malabotta, 25.VII.2006, Leg. Baviera C.; Monte Scuderi, 04.1V.2004,
Leg. Baviera C.; Monte Antennammare, 1133 m, 06.X.2008, Leg. Baviera C.; Siracusa: Augusta,
08.VII. 1997, Leg. Baviera C.; Lentini , 08.VI.2000, Leg. I.S.A.

Notes. Widespread species in ltaly, reported until now for Sicily only from Egadi Islands
(Levanzo and Favignana) (Leonardi 1972b; Daccordi and Ruffo 1975) and Etna Mount
(Biondi 2006).

Longitarsus vilis Wollaston, 1864

Chorotype - WME
Host plants- PLA (Plantago)
Trophic category - MON

Notes. Rare species in Sicily, known only from Nebrodi Mounts (Cesaro, 1265 m a.s.L)

(Biondi 1988).

Mantura Stephens, 1831

Mantura chrysanthemi (Koch, 1903)

Chorotype - EUM
Host plants - PLG, AST
Trophic category - POL

Notes. Very rare species in ltaly, recorded only generically from Sicily (Biondi 1990).

Atti Accad. Pelorit. Pericol. Cl. Sci. Fis. Mat. Nat., Vol. 93, No. 2, A2 (2015) [50 pages]