New Records of Beetles (Insecta: Coleoptera) for the Fauna of Greece

A list of 11 species of beetles of eight families is presented along with a discussion of their general distribution. The fist record for Greece are those for Laccobius minutus, Sphaeridium lunatum (Hydrophilidae), Nicrophorus investigator (Silphidae), Quedius dubius, Quedius fumatus (Staphylinidae), Pediacus dermestoides (Cucujidae), Cryptolestes duplicatus (Laemophloeidae), Sphaerosoma globosum (Alexiidae) and Bruchidius siliquastri (Chrysomelidae). For two other species, Lilioceris lilii (Chrysomelidae) and Cleopomiarus distinctus (Curculionidae), which have been rarely recorded in this country, new localities are reported. All new records were from the Thessaly Region. For the majority of species, the newly reported places of occurrence were situated on the southern edge of their geographical ranges of the species.