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APPENDIX 1. Presence (1) / absence (0) of tenebrionid beetles on the circum-Sicilian islands. Island numbers as in Table 1. Nomen-
clature follows Löbl & Smetana (2008). Numbers in square brackets refer to the references listed below. * = single island endemic;
** = taxon endemic to an archipelago within the circum-Sicilian islands; ? = uncertain identification.

Species Islands
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 101112131415161718192021222324 25
*Erodius auduini destefanii [2, 4, 6, 24, 25] 0000000000 0 00 00 0 00 0 10 0 00 0
Erodius siculus siculus [1, 2, 6, 8, 11, 16, 19] 0000000000 0 01 01 0 00 0 00 0 00 0
Erodius siculus neapolitanus [2, 5, 6, 16, 19, 33] 0011001000 0 00 00 0 00 0 00 0 00 0
**Erodius siculus melitensis [16, 19, 26, 36, 37] 0000000000 0 00 00 0 00 0 01 1 00 0
Pachychila frioli [2, 5, 6, 19] 0001001000 0 00 00 0 00 0 00 0 00 0
Pachychila crassicollis cossyrensis [2, 4, 6, 12, 17, 19, 43] 0000000000 0 00 00 0 10 0 00 0 00 0
Pachychila dejeani dejeani [2, 5, 6, 8, 9, 11, 19, 21, 33, 34, 42] 1100001000 0 00 11 0 00 0 00 0 00 0
*Pachychila dejeani doderoi [2, 4, 6, 12, 24, 32] 0000000000 0 00 00 0 00 0 10 0 00 0
Pachychila tazmaltensis [2, 4, 6, 17, 19, 24] 0000000000 0 00 00 0 00 0 10 0 00 0
Tentyria laevigata laevigata [1, 2, 5, 6, 11, 13, 15, 19, 33, 39] 1011101000 0 01 10 1 00 0 00 0 00 0
**Tentyria laevigata leachi [14, 19, 26, 35, 36] 0000000000 0 00 00 0 00 0 01 1 00 1
Tentyria grossa grossa [1, 2, 4, 5, 6, 8, 9, 11, 19, 20, 21, 25, 26, 33, 36, 40, 42] 1111111001 0 01 11 0 00 0 01 0 00 0
* Tentyria grossa angustata [2, 6, 12, 43] 0000000000 0 00 00 0 10 0 00 0 00 0
Tentyria grossa sommieri [2, 4, 6, 12, 24] 0000000000 0 00 00 0 01 0 00 0 00 0
Tentyria latreillei oblongipennis ? [2, 4, 6, 24] 0000000000 0 00 00 0 00 1 00 0 00 0
Imatismus villosus [2, 4, 6, 12, 17, 19, 24] 0000000000 0 00 00 0 01 0 00 0 00 0
** Stenosis brignonei [2, 4, 6, 12, 19, 24, 31] 0000000000 0 00 00 0 01 0 10 0 00 0
Stenosis freyi [2, 6, 26, 31, 33, 36] 0000000000 0 00 00 0 00 0 01 0 00 0
Stenosis intermedia [2, 5, 6, 11, 19, 21, 33] 1111011111 1 11 00 0 00 0 00 0 00 0
Stenosis melitana [14, 17, 19, 26, 31, 35, 36] 0000000000 0 00 00 0 00 0 01 1 10 0
Stenosis sardoa sardoa [2, 4, 5, 6, 8, 11, 12, 24, 33, 34, 36, 43] 1100111000 0 01 11 0 11 0 11 0 00 0
**Stenosis schembrii [14, 26, 36] 0000000000 0 00 00 0 00 0 01 0 10 0
Dichillus subtilis [3, 5, 6] 0000010000 0 00 01 0 00 0 00 0 00 0
Dichillus pertusus [2, 4, 6, 8, 11, 19, 26, 36, 43] 0000000000 0 00 01 1 10 0 01 0 00 0
Eutagenia aegyptiaca tunisea [2, 4, 6, 17, 24] 0000000000 0 00 00 0 00 0 10 0 00 0
Microtelus lethierryi [2, 4, 6, 17, 19, 24] 0000000000 0 00 00 0 00 0 10 0 00 0
Elenophorus collaris [2, 5, 6, 19, 26, 33, 36, 38] 1101010000 0 00 00 0 00 0 01 0 00 0

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