Habitat:
Barbitistes yersini inhabits nearly all grove-rich habitats from deciduous or sclerophyllous woodlands (especially oaks) to very bushy grasslands.
Remarks:
Barbitistes yersini occurs from NE-Italy along the Adratic coast to Albania. In Central Italy (Abruzzes) there is obviously another distribution area.
Hints on determination:
Barbitistes yersini is a bit larger than the similar Barbitistes ocskayi and shows a much weaker gloss of the body surface. But colouration is not always a useful criterion.