Ábrahám Levente (szerk.): Válogatott tanulmányok XVIII. - Natura Somogyiensis 34. / Miscellanea 18. (Kaposvár, 2020)
Háva, J. - Herrmann, A.: New faunistic records and remarks on Dermestidae (Coleoptera) - Part 20
18 Natura Somogyiensis Subfamily Thorictinae Thorictus grandicollis grandicollis Germar, 1842 Material examined'. Chile, Región de O'higgins (VI Región), Cerro Llivi llivi, Lo Miranda, 13.10.2019, leg. Rolando Salinas Gómez, 1 spec., J. Háva & A. Herrmann det., (RGPC). Remarks. The entomologist Rolando Salinas Gómez from Chile informed us by email that he found a specimen of the genus Thorictus near Santiago, in the coastal mountain range. It walked through some wooden sticks in one of his terrariums; the specimen probably arrived with some Camponotus chilensis that he caught a few days before. This was the first record of a specimen belonging to the genus Thorictus from America as well as from the whole Neotropical region. The species is unlikely to have been hiding in America to this day, the beetle was certainly introduced from Europe, Africa or Asia. The genus Thorictus includes more than 170 valid species respectively subspecies, all of them are very small, entirely brown or black, nearly hairless and look habitually very similar to each other. Thorictus grandicollis Germar, 1842 is the most common species of this genus in Southern Europe and the Mediterranean subregion. Distribution. The species known from south Europe and the Medditerranean subregion, Armenia, Azerbaijan and Turkmenistan, newly introduced in Chile. Acknowledgements We are indebted to all colleagues and collectors for the chance to study their material.
