A topographic catalogue of the Dermestidae of Sardinia, based on a critical revision of the literature data and on unpublished materials (about 550 specimens of 21 species), is provided. Fifty-three species are recorded with certainty from Sardinia, while five taxa (Attagenus (A.) quadrimaculatus Kraatz, 1858, Anthrenus (A.) pimpinellae pimpinellae (Fabricius, 1775), A. (Nathrenus) signatus Erichson, 1846, Trogoderma glabrum Rosenhauer, 1856 and T. granarium Everts, 1898) are hereby excluded from the fauna of the island. Anthrenus (A.) munroi Hinton, 1943 and Attagenus (A.) lobatus Rosenhauer, 1856 are firstly recorded from Sardinia, and the occurrence of the second species in mainland Italy (Latium) is confirmed. Dermestes (Dermestinus) erichsoni Ganglbauer, 1904 is firstly recorded from Abruzzi and Latium, while Trogoderma glabrum (Herbst, 1783) and T. versicolor (Creutzer, 1799) are firstly recorded from Latium. Dermestes (Dermestinus) laniarius ab. subfulvicollis Kalík, 1951 from Kazakhstan is an unavailable name; its authorship is attributed, according to the Code of Zoological Nomenclature, to Háva (2003), who first used it for a subspecies. Dermestes ruficollis Gené (not D. ruficollis Fabricius, 1775) from "Sardinia", cited by Giachino (1982), is here recognized as a nomen nudum. Attagenus bifasciatus ab. hybridus Ragusa, 1926 from Sicily, previously generally considered as a synonym of A. (A.) tigrinus (Fabricius, 1792), is confirmed to be an infrasubspecific and unavailable name. A short discussion and zoogeographical analysis of the Sardinian Dermestidae are finally provided.The zoogeographical analysis revealed the presence of four components: a prevalent group of species widespread in the Mediterranean Basin (39.62%), followed by Cosmopolitan (24.52%), Holarctic (22.64%) and European (13.20%) components. |