Distribution: Petrakis & Moulet, 2011 (Greece); Baena & Torres, 2012b (Spain); Vivas, 2012 (Spain); Dioli, 2013 (Italy); Heyden, 2015 (Crete), 2017c (Albania); Çerçi & Koçak, 2016 (Asian Turkey); Simov et al., 2017 (Greece); Heyden, 2018d (Israel); Garrouste, 2019 (France); Bella, 2020 (Sicily); Heyden & Grosso-Silva, 2020 (Portugal); Rattu & Dioli, 2020 (Sardinia); Baena & Santos, 2021 (Canary Islands); Çerçi et al., 2021 (European Turkey); Heyden, 2021b (accidental introductions of single specimens in Denmark, Germany and Great Britain); Heyden, 2022b (Bulgaria); Kment & Heyden, 2022 (Croatia, Czech Republic [accidental introduction], Montenegro and Romania); Heyden, 2023c (Uzbekistan), 2023e (Algeria), 2023g (Germany); Heyden & Faúndez, 2023 (Jamaica); Heyden & Staudinger, 2023 (Austria); John & Kolokotronis, 2023 (Cyprus); Aukema & Schets, 2024 (Netherlands).