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Host plants - BRA
Trophic category - OLI

Notes. Widespread species in Italy, only recently reported for Sicily (Biondi 2005-2013).

Phyllotreta nigripes (Fabricius, 1775)
Chorotype - WPA
Host plants - BRA, RES, TRO, CAP
Trophic category- POL
New records- Messina: Monti Peloritani: Gualtieri Sicamino, Li Pantani , 700 m, 04.IV.2010, Leg.
Baviera C.; Catania: Monte Etna: versante settentrionale, Piano Provenzana, 23.VI.2001, Leg.
Baviera C.; ditto, 04.VIII.2000; ditto, versante occidentale, S. Alfio, 1200 m, 02.VI.l999, Leg.
Baviera C. ; Calatabiano S. Marco, foce Alcantara, ll.III.2011, Leg. Baviera C.

Notes. Very cornrnon and widespread species in Italy and Sicily (Biondi 1988, 2006).

Phyllotreta nitidicollis Weise, 1888
Chorotype - NAF
Host plants - RES, BRA
Trophic category - OLI

Notes. Very rare species in Italy, reported only generically for Sicily (Biondi 1990, 2013).

Phyllotreta ochripes (Curtis, 1837)
Chorotype - SIE
Host plants - BRA
Trophic category - OLI

Notes. Species reported for Sicily only from Nebrodi Mounts (Biondi 2006).

Phyllotreta parallela (Boieldieu, 1859)
Chorotype - WME
Host plants - BRA
Trophic category - OLI
New records- Messina: Monti Nebrodi: Biviere di Cesaro, 1274 m, ll.IV.2002, Leg. Baviera C.

Notes. Rare species in Italy, reported only generically for Sicily (Porta 1934; Vitale 1920;
Biondi 1990).

Phyllotreta procera (Redtenbacher, 1849)
Chorotype - AFM
Host plants - RES (rarely CAP or BRA)
Trophic category - OLI
New records- Catania: Calatabiano, San Marco, Foce Fiume Alcantara, 19.V.2010 Leg. Baviera
C.; Messina: città, Forte S. Jachiddu, 23.III.2010, Leg. Baviera C., Torre Faro, Contrada Granatari,
27.V.2000, Leg. Baviera C.; ditto, 15. VI. 2008, alla luce; Trapani: Castellammare del Golfo, R.N.O.
Zingaro, 26- 29.III.2003, Leg. Baviera C.

Notes. Locally cornmon species reported until now for Sicily only from Lipari, Favignana,
Pantelleria and Lampedusa (Daccordi and Ru:ffo 1975; Lo Valvo and Massa 1995; Biondi
2006; Lo Cascio et al. 2006).

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