Arachnocephalus vestitus Costa, 1855

Arachnocephalus vestitus Costa, 1855: 42 [N.V.].

Type locality: Southern Italy? (Chopard 1943).

Distribution: Iberian Peninsula and western North Africa; Mediterranean region from southern France and Corsica, up to Romania, Crimea, Caucasus and Asia minor (Gorochov and Llorente 2001). Biogeographic zones: Shoreline, Tellian Atlas.

Bioclimatic zone: Subhumid.

Records in Algeria: Algiers [36°45'N 3°3'E] (Finot 1896, as Arachnocephalus yersini Saussure, 1877). Tafoughalt [36°37'N 3°52'E] (Mohamed Sahnoun pers. obs.).