102. Cylindroiulus aetnensis Verhoeff, 1910

Distribution

IT-ITA (Liguria), IT-SI.

Habitat

Sicilian mountains, recorded from 500–1900 m, at Randazzo in earth, humus and Castanea stumps.

Remarks

There is some doubt about the validity of records from the Italian mainland. On the one hand the record from Liguria (Strasser & Minelli 1984) seems improbable, but, on the other hand the suggestion by Strasser (1970) that the records of Cylindroiulus rufifrons from Calabria (see below) must refer to another species, probably C. aetnensis, is reasonable. On our map we have not placed a dot on the Italian mainland.