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Figure 30. Lytorhynchus diadema from 37 km south of Gadamis, Nalut, Tripolitania, Libya, 2008. Photo © Roberto 
Sindaco. 
Libyan Records (Map 50): TRIPOLITA¬ 
NIA: Tripoli : 45: NHMW 23637; ZMB 
15337-39, 15342-43, 15356, 85217; Con- 
dorelli-Francaviglia 1896; Wemer 1909; Ghigi 
1913; Zavattari 1934; Sayers 1964; Leviton 
and Anderson 1970. 49: BMNH 1955.1.8.98; 
Kramer and Schnurrenberger 1963. Muroub : 
60: Ghigi 1913. 64: SMNS 3198. Misratah : 
73: MCSN 4210; Calabresi 1923. Nalut : 103: 
Sindaco, pers. obs. 4/30/2008. Jabal al Ghar- 
bi: 133: NHMC 80.3.12.1. 154: SMNS 3197. 
“Tripolitania settentrionale”: Zavattari 1937. 
FEZZAN: Jufra : 222: SK 1747; Kramer and 
Schnurrenberger 1963. 224: Schnurrenberger 
1962. Sabha : 291: SK 924; Kramer and 
Schnurrenberger 1963. CYRENAICA: Beng¬ 
hazi : 378: SK 573-74; SK 583. Marj : 384: 
CAS 135744. 385: Zavattari 1937. Jabal al 
Akhdar : 421: MCSN 2983; Zavattari 1929, 1930, 1934; Kramer and Schnurrenberger 1963. 448: 
SMF 55405. Darnah : 475: ANSP 28055. Butnan : 490: Zavattari 1922, 1929, 1930, 1934; Cal¬ 
abresi 1923. 495: Kramer and Schnurrenberger 1958; Leviton and Anderson 1970. Al Wahat : 529: 
NMP 34936; NMP 34936; Moravec 1995. 531: SK 85; Kramer and Schnurrenberger 1963. 536: 
SK 176-78, SK 584; Kramer and Schnurrenberger 1963. 537: SMF 55756. 547: SK 92; Kramer 
and Schnurrenberger 1958, 1963; Leviton and Anderson 1970. 548: SK 196, SK 982-83; Kramer 
and Schnurrenberger 1963. 564: MCSN 2676-77; Kramer and Schnurrenberger 1963. Kufrah : 
573: Vinciguerra 1931; Zavattari 1934, 1937; Le Berre 1989. 575: BMNH 1955.1.1.48; Vin- 
ciguerra 1931. “Cyrenaica”: BMNH 1955.1.8.48; Kramer and Schnurrenberger 1963. “Marmar- 
ica”: Zavattari 1937. 
Comments.— As noted in the species description, Dumeril (1852) first referred to this species 
as Lycognathus diadema, although this was a nonem nudum. There are competing taxonomic inter- 
Map 50. Distribution of Lytorhynchus diadema in Libya. 
