The Cholevidae (Coleoptera) of Sardinia * Author Casale, Achille Dipartimento di Zoologia e Genetica Evoluzionistica, Università di Sassari, via Muroni 25, I- 07100 Sassari, Italy. E-mail: casale @ uniss. it Author Grafitti, Giuseppe Gruppo Speleologico Sassarese, Via dei Navigatori 7, I- 07100 Sassari, Italy. E-mail: giuseppe. grafitti @ tiscali. it Author Latella, Leonardo Museo Civico di Storia Naturale, Lungadige Porta Vittoria 9, I- 37129 Verona, Italy. E-mail: leonardo. latella @ comune. verona. it text Zootaxa 2009 2009-12-22 2318 290 316 journal article 1175-5326 Sciodrepoides watsoni watsoni ( Spence, 1815 ) Literature records. Sassari prov.: Golfo Aranci ( Zoia & Latella 2006 ); Cossoine, Grotta Sa Ucca ‘e Mammuscone (180 Sa/SS) ( Giachino et al. 2006 ; Zoia & Latella 2006 ). Distribution. The species, treated in the wider sense of Perreau (2000) , is spread in North America, Europe and Asia. In Italy the species, with the subspecies watsoni , is spread in the whole mainland and in Sicily . It normally lives in the most superficial layers of the litter and at the entrance of caves. Chorotype. Holarctic.