30. Dignathodon microcephalus (Lucas, 1846)

(1) Dign. microcephalum [sic!] Luc. [sic!]: Verhoeff, 1901: 455.

(2) Dignathodon microcephalum [sic!] Lucas [sic!]: Attems, 1903b: 273.

(3) Dignathodon microcephalum [sic!] (Luc.): Kanellis, 1959: 16.

(4) Dignathodon microcephalum (Lucas, 1846): Zapparoli, 2002: 82, Fig. 36.

General distribution. Europe: Albania, Austria, Bosnia Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, France (incl. Corsica), Greece (incl. Crete), Italy (incl. Sardinia and Sicily), Luxembourg, Montenegro, Portugal, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Spain (incl. Balearic Is.), Ukraine. West Asia: Jordan, Israel, Syria, Turkey. North Africa: Algeria, Morocco, Tunisia (Zapparoli 2002; Minelli et al. 2006).

Chorotype. Mediterranean (MED).

Records in Peloponnisos (2) (Fig. 11). Ahaia: Patra (1, 3, 4).

New records from Mt. Parnonas (Fig. 11). 1 ex., Arkadia, Moni Panagias Malevis (loc. 11), 880 m, N37.328907 / E22.572301, 27 Oct. 2014; 1 ex., Arkadia, Neochori to Agios Charalampos church, phrygana (loc. 30), 50 m, N37.361966 / E22.741903, 31 Oct. 2014.

Ecological notes. Generally 0–900, one record from Mt Parnasus, 2200–2400 m, needs to be confirmed (Zapparoli 2002); a thermophilous species, generally in phrygana and in open Mediterranean habitats; few records from caves (Chamberlin 1956; Matic et al. 1968; Zapparoli 1994, 1996).