Buprestis splendens (Fabricius, 1774) (Coleoptera Buprestidae) is a rare European chorotypespecies, threatened throughout its distribution by global climate change, forest fires and thecapture of specimens by collectors. To date, in Italy, its presence was only known in a fewareas on the Lucanian side of the massif of Pollino. This report records the first, reliable sight-ings of its presence on the Calabrian side of the Pollino and in the mountains of Orsomarso. Italso makes observations on its environment and the factors that put its survival at risk.
Global climate change and mammalian species diversity in U.S. national parks