Ammobatoides abdominalis

Abstract

Ammobatoides abdominalis (Eversmann, 1852) MATERIAL EXAMINED: Greece: 1♀, Kozani, Siatista Bridge, 19–23 Jun. 1990, J. Tiefenthaler leg. (OÖLM); 1♀, NW Fea Petra vill., 195 m a.s.l., 2 Jun. 2018, T. Ljubomirov leg. (IBER); 1♀, Western Macedonia, Anatoliko, 6.3 km E, Church of the Holy Apostles, 1000 m a.s.l., 15 Jun. 2024, T.J. Wood leg. (TJWC); 1♀, Western Macedonia, Filotas, 3 km N of Antigonos, 600–700 m a.s.l., 11 Jun. 2024, T.J. Wood leg. (TJWC). North Macedonia: 1♂, Jugoslav, Prilep, 1 Jun. 1968, K. Warncke leg., K. Warncke det. (OÖLM); 1♀, Katlanovska Banja, 9 Jun. 1965, C. v. Heijningen leg. (RMNH; RMNH.INS.1652081). REMARKS: Ammobatoides abdominalis is a well-studied and widely distributed species, but surprisingly we could not find any published literature supporting the presence of A. abdominalis in Greece, and so the species is newly reported for this country. Warncke (1982) vaguely mentioned a record from North Macedonia, which we reproduce here for clarity. DISTRIBUTION: Germany, Austria, Italy, Czechia, Slovakia, Hungary, Croatia, Serbia, Albania, North Macedonia, Greece *, Bulgaria, Romania, Moldova, Ukraine, Belarus, Russia (European part, Siberia), Turkey, Cyprus, Syria, Lebanon, Israel, Armenia, Georgia, Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, and China (Xinjiang) (Warncke, 1982; Kuhlmann et al., 2014; Proshchalykin & Lelej, 2014; Varnava et al., 2020; Reverté et al., 2023)

Authors 2

1. Thomas James Wood Aachen Naturalis Biodiversity Center

   Naturalis Biodiversity Center

   Affiliation as printed

   Naturalis Biodiversity Center, Darwinweg 2, 2333 CR, Leiden, the Netherlands (thomas. wood @ naturalis. nl)

2. Sébastien Patiny

   University of Mons

   Affiliation as printed

   Laboratory of Zoology, University of Mons, 7000, Mons, Belgium (patiny. s @ gmail. com)