Distribution of Lipoptena fortisetosa in Europe, with year of the earliest known specimen for each particular country. Asterisk indicates a year of published reference without collected/observed specimen(s) data known. A dot on the map can represent several nearby records. The source references are: 1 – Germany (Schumann and Messner 1993, GBIF 2019), 2 – Switzerland (Büttiker 1994), 3 – Italy (Andreani et al. 2019), 4 – Poland (Borowiec and Zatwarnicki 1989, Kowal et al. 2009), 5 – Czech Republic (Theodor 1967, Sychra 2009), 6 – Slovak Republic (Oboňa et al. 2019), 7 – Austria (Schedl 2017, Schedl 2018), 8 – Romania (Pârvu 2005, Mihalca et al. 2019), 9 – Moldova (Metelitsa and Veselkin 1989), 10 – Lithuania (Dumčius and Pakalniškis 2005), 11 – Belarus (Ostrovsky 2017), 12 – Moscow district in Russia (Grunin 1970), 13 – Estonia (original data: letters correspond to the collecting localities in the Material section).