{"title":"First record of the invasive alien species Cynaeus angustus (LeConte, 1851) (Coleoptera, Tenebrionidae) in Bulgaria","authors":"Ognyan Sivilov, H. Hristova","doi":"10.48027/hnb.44.092","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.48027/hnb.44.092","url":null,"abstract":"The invasive alien species Cynaeus angustus (LeConte, 1851) was detected for the first time in Bulgaria. In 2020-2022, eight exemplars of this North American pest were collected at three sites along the Danube River. Its distribution, microhabitat affinity, food preferences as well as some methods for control are outlined. Photographs of the adult habitus, male genitalia and female ovipositor are also provided.","PeriodicalId":36079,"journal":{"name":"Historia Naturalis Bulgarica","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-10-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41788767","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"On Madagascan Dichaetomyia species (Diptera: Muscidae): redescriptions of six species","authors":"E. Zielke","doi":"10.48027/hnb.44.082","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.48027/hnb.44.082","url":null,"abstract":"Several original descriptions of the Madagascan Dichaetomyia species originating from earlier years do not correspond to today’s requirements since taxonomic characters which are used today successfully for differentiating species have received little or no attention in the past. Since the type specimens of some species were currently available for comparative studies, the descriptions of six species of the subgenus Dichaetomyia s. str. have been updated and supplemented with notes on the history of the species and some photographs.","PeriodicalId":36079,"journal":{"name":"Historia Naturalis Bulgarica","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-09-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49423140","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Two predatory Medetera (Diptera: Dolichopodidae) species associated with Ips acuminatus (Gyllenhal) (Coleoptera: Curculionidae) in Bulgaria","authors":"M. Kechev, Sevdalin Belilov, G. Georgiev","doi":"10.48027/hnb.44.081","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.48027/hnb.44.081","url":null,"abstract":"In 2021 and 2022, two predatory flies from the genus Medetera (Diptera: Dolichopodidae) were recorded in galleries of Ips acuminatus (Coleoptera: Curculionidae) on Pinus sylvestris trees in Sredna Gora Mountain in Bulgaria: M. pinicola and M. dendrobaena. These findings appear to be the first associations with I. acuminatus. In addition, the first record of Medetera cf. dendrobaena for the fauna of Bulgaria was also recorded. As only a female specimen was found, the identification remains doubtful for the moment.","PeriodicalId":36079,"journal":{"name":"Historia Naturalis Bulgarica","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-09-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44129197","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Two new sawfly species for the Bulgarian fauna (Hymenoptera: Symphyta)","authors":"M. Dobreva, Nikolai Zlatanov, G. Georgiev","doi":"10.48027/hnb.44.071","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.48027/hnb.44.071","url":null,"abstract":"Two sawfly species were established for the first time in Bulgaria: Gilpinia socia (Klug) (Hymenoptera: Diprionidae) and Hemichroa crocea (Geoffroy) (Hymenoptera: Tenthredinidae). G. socia was found on Pinus sylvestris in Plovdiv City, and H. crocea - on Alnus glutinosa in the land of Iskra Village. The late-instar larvae were collected and reared in Petri dishes in laboratory conditions in Forestry Protection Station in Plovdiv. Seven female and one male adult specimens of G. socia appeared between 30 July and 23 August 2021.","PeriodicalId":36079,"journal":{"name":"Historia Naturalis Bulgarica","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-08-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48280575","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"New species of Psocoptera (Insecta) from East Africa","authors":"D. Georgiev","doi":"10.48027/hnb.44.072","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.48027/hnb.44.072","url":null,"abstract":"Four new Psocoptera species were described as new to science from the coastal area of East Africa: Echinopsocus keniensis n. sp., Cerobasis lienhardi n. sp., Lithoseopsis juliani n. sp. (Kenya), and Mepleres gurusamyi n. sp. (Zanzibar). One Nanopsocus species was found only in a nymph stage, and was supposed to be representative of an unknown species too.","PeriodicalId":36079,"journal":{"name":"Historia Naturalis Bulgarica","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-08-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44632628","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A new locality of the violet copper Lycaena helle ([Denis et Schiffermüller], 1775) on the Balkan Peninsula","authors":"M. Langourov, Hilary Raeburn","doi":"10.48027/hnb.44.061","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.48027/hnb.44.061","url":null,"abstract":"In the present article we summarised all known information on the species Lycaena helle ([Denis et Schiffermüller], 1775) from the Balkan Peninsula. A new locality of the species is given, where it is syntopic and synchronic with Clossiana eunomia (Esper, [1799]).","PeriodicalId":36079,"journal":{"name":"Historia Naturalis Bulgarica","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-07-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46600324","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Klimeschia transversella (Zeller, 1839), a new species for Bulgaria (Insecta: Lepidoptera: Douglasiidae)","authors":"T. Tsvetanov, Boyan Zlatkov","doi":"10.48027/hnb.44.051","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.48027/hnb.44.051","url":null,"abstract":"Klimeschia transversella (Zeller, 1839) is reported for the first time from Bulgaria. The species was found on Thymus plants in Vinarovo Village, Vidin Province, Northwestern Bulgaria. Moths and female genitalia are illustrated.","PeriodicalId":36079,"journal":{"name":"Historia Naturalis Bulgarica","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-06-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44283407","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Bythinella fabiae n. sp., a new spring-snail species (Gastropoda: Rissooidea) from the Belasitsa Mountains, South-West Bulgaria","authors":"D. Georgiev, Ulrich E. Schneppat, Ivaylo Dedov","doi":"10.48027/hnb.44.041","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.48027/hnb.44.041","url":null,"abstract":"A new species of the genus Bythinella is described. Its type locality is: South-West Bulgaria, Belasitsa Mountains, Leshnishki Waterfall, northern slope of Kongur Peak. Because of its locality position it was compared and with Greek and Macedonian species.","PeriodicalId":36079,"journal":{"name":"Historia Naturalis Bulgarica","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-05-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48827974","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Parsleya nomen novum: a replacement name for the preoccupied Kailidiscus Zhao, Sumrall, Parsley et Peng, 2010 (Echinodermata: Edrioasteroidea)","authors":"U. Deshmukh","doi":"10.48027/hnb.44.031","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.48027/hnb.44.031","url":null,"abstract":"This paper introduces Parsleya nomen novum, a replacement name for the preoccupied Kailidiscus Zhao, Sumrall, Parsley et Peng, 2010.","PeriodicalId":36079,"journal":{"name":"Historia Naturalis Bulgarica","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-04-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44306739","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A new species of Thylacella Enderlein, 1911 (Psocoptera: Lepidopsocidae) with an identification key to the species from Africa and Madagascar","authors":"D. Georgiev","doi":"10.48027/hnb.44.032","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.48027/hnb.44.032","url":null,"abstract":"A new species of Thylacella was collected from Unguja Island (Zanzibar, Tanzania) and described in this paper. A simple identification key is also proposed for all the species known from Africa and Madagascar. Now from this genus a total of 19 recent and two fossil species are known.","PeriodicalId":36079,"journal":{"name":"Historia Naturalis Bulgarica","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-04-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48786551","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}