Biogeographia – The Journal of Integrative Biogeography

This work presents an updated checklist and distribution of Coleoptera Elateridae of Italy. The data come from literature, from museums and private collections directly examined by the authors. The subfamilies Lissominae, Cebrioninae and Drilinae, which were previously considered independent families, are not included in the checklist, because there are not sufficient data. The distribution of the species is recorded and figured on maps at the provincial level, provided in a supplementary file, while the world distribution is given at the state level according to the Palearctic catalogue published by Cate in 2007 and the most recent works. The genus Pseudathous Méquignon, 1930 was resurrected for the species previously classified in the genus Hemicrepidius Germar, 1839 and Megathous nigerrimus (Desbrochers des Loges, 1870) is transferred to the genus Hemicrepidius Germar, 1839 according to recent taxonomic revision. For not recorded species that may occur in Italy, we remand to the volume of the Fauna d'Italia.