New records of some insects from the Strandzha Mts and adjacent Black Sea coast

Dvorak et al. (2024) ZooNotes, Supplement 16: 1-20 New records of some insects from the Strandzha Mts and adjacent Black Sea coast LIBOR DVOŘÁK*, KATEŘINA DVOŘÁKOVÁ*, JIŘÍ HEJKAL** *Tři Sekery 21, CZ-353 01 Mariánské Lázně, Czechia; e-mail: lib.dvor[email protected], [email protected] **Kpt. Jaroše 213, CZ-358 01 Kraslice, Czechia; e-mail: [email protected]z Abstract. In this contribution, data to 76 species and one subspecies are given: 29 species of Coleoptera (Buprestidae: 2, Carabidae: 9, Cerambycidae: 3, Chrysomelidae: 1, Coccinellidae: 1, Curculionidae: 2, Dytiscidae: 1, Geotrupidae: 1, Lucanidae: 1, Meloidae: 1, Scarabaeidae: 7), one species of Dermaptera (Forficulidae), 35 species of Diptera (Acroceridae: 1, Dryomyzidae: 1, Heleomyzidae: 1, Hippoboscidae: 1, Lauxaniidae: 7, Opomyzidae: 1, Sciomyzidae: 5, Stratiomyidae: 1, Tabanidae: 15 spp. and 1 ssp., Therevidae: 1), four species of Hemiptera (Cicadidae), six species of Hymenoptera (Apidae: 1, Megachilidae: 1, Scoliidae: 3, Vespidae: 1), one species of Mecoptera (Panorpidae), and one species of Neuroptera (Chrysopidae). Four species are reported as new for Bulgaria: Ogcodes guttatus A. Costa, 1854 (Diptera: Acroceridae), Calliopum simillimum (Collin, 1933), Meiosimyza rorida (Fallén, 1820) (all Diptera: Lauxaniidae), and Tetanocera hyalipennis von Roser, 1840 (Diptera: Sciomyzidae). Three species are reported with the first precisely located records for Bulgaria: Homoneura limnea (Becker, 1895), Minettia longipennis (Fabricius, 1794) (both Diptera: Lauxaniidae) and Tetanocera arrogans Meigen, 1830 (Diptera: Sciomyzidae). Other recorded species interesting from faunistic point of view are Dixus eremita (Dejean, 1825), Ophonus gabrieleae Wrase, 1987 (both Coleoptera: Carabidae), Thereva aurata Loew, 1854 (Diptera: Therevidae), and Megachile sculpturalis Smith, 1853 (Hymenoptera: Megachilidae). Key words: Insecta, Coleoptera, Diptera, Hemiptera, Hymenoptera, Mecoptera, Neuroptera, Bulgaria, new records. Introduction The entomofauna of the Strandzha Mts and adjacent Black sea coast is rather underinvestigated. Interesting data on some groups has been published, for example ground beetles (Coleptera: Carabidae) (Teofilova et al. 2012, Kostova & Guéorguiev 2016), several flies families (Diptera) (Hubenov 2021) or scorpionflies (Mecoptera) (Dvořák 2014, 2016, Dvořák & Georgiev 2017). Many data are included in various scientific paper, we cite some of them in comments to interesting records. In the present contribution, we are submitting the data of the scattered investigation of some insect groups. 3 Material and Methods The material was collected by the first author and the members of his family. The groups were identified by following people: Coleptera: Buprestidae – Jiří Prokop; Coleoptera: Carabidae – Jiří Hejkal; Coleptera: Curculionidae, Meloidae – Stanislav Benedikt; Coleptera: Cerambycidae – Matěj Ĉermák; Coleptera: Chrysomelidae – Michal Ouda; Coleptera: Dytiscidae – Josef Krošlák; Coleptera: Scarabaeidae, Geotrupidae, Lucanidae – Václav Týr; Hymenoptera: Apidae – Peter Šima; Hymenoptera: Megachilidae – Petr Bogusch; Diptera: Dryomyzidae, Heleomyzidae, Lauxaniidae, Sciomyzidae – Kateřina Dvořáková; Diptera: Hippoboscidae – Jozef Oboňa; Hemiptera: Cicadidae – Igor Malenovský; the rest of groups – Libor Dvořák. Localities The localities are arranged geographically from north and west to south and east. 1: Atiya, SE, by stream in oak forest, 42°24'49.9"N, 27°36'11.7"E, 130 m a.s.l., 19.7.2023 2: Rosen, S periphery of a village, 42°22'42.5"N, 27°34'2.9"E, 80 m a.s.l., 20.7.2023 Fig. 1. Locality No. 4: Forest-steppe northwest of Veselie, 20.7.2023. Locality of Calliopum simillimum (Collin, 1933) (Diptera: Lauxaniidae – the first record for Bulgaria). Photo: Kateřina Dvořáková. 4 Fig. 2. Locality No. 13: Field patch southwest of Tsarevo, 23.7.2023. Locality Dixus eremita (Dejean, 1825) (Coleoptera: Carabidae). Photo: Kateřina Dvořáková. Fig. 3. Locality No. 20: Bank of dried stream in a humid broadleaf forest southwest of Varvara, 29.7.2023. Locality of Meiosimyza rorida (Fallén, 1820) (new for Bulgaria) and Minettia longipennis (Fabricius, 1794) (the first precisely located record for Bulgaria) (both Diptera: Lauxaniidae). Photo: Kateřina Dvořáková. 5 3: Rosen, NE, dry oak forest, 42°24'16.4"N, 27°36'3.1"E, 190 m a.s.l., 20.7.2023 4: Veselie, NW, forest-steppe, 42°20'49.6"N, 27°35'59.5"E, 90 m a.s.l., 20.7.2023 (Fig. 1) 5: Veselie, SW periphery of the village, 42°19'24.7"N, 27°37'8.3"E, 50 m a.s.l., 21.7.2023 6: Yasna Polyana, E, ruderal site by the road, 42°16'27.8"N, 27°37'54.6"E, 30 m a.s.l., 21.7.2023 7: Yasna Polyana, E, field, 42°16'24.7"N, 27°38'49.7"E, 20 m a.s.l., 21.7.2023 8: Yasna Polyana, E, field, 42°16'12.5"N, 27°38'49.7"E, 20 m a.s.l., 21.7.2023 9: Yasna Polyana, E, pool by Diavolska reka River, 42°16'4.8"N, 27°38'49.8"E, 20 m a.s.l., 21.7.2023 10: Yasna Polyana, E, riverbed of Diavolska reka River, 42°16'4.8"N, 27°38'49.8"E, 20 m a.s.l., 21.7.2023 11: Primorsko, W periphery, 42°16'4.0"N, 27°44'46.5"E, 10 m a.s.l., 21.7.2023 12: Primorsko, W, on the road, 42°15'38.9"N, 27°42'46.6"E, 10 m a.s.l., 21.7.2023 13: Tsarevo, field patch SW, 42°9'35.4"N, 27°49'13.3"E, 110 m a.s.l., 23.7.2023 (Fig. 2) 14: Tsarevo, SW, semihumid ash-oak forest, 42°9'32.7"N, 27°47'21.0"E, 300 m a.s.l., 23.7.2023 15: Tsarevo, dry oak forest SW, 42°9'31.1"N, 27°49'3.6"E, 130 m a.s.l., 23.7.2023 Fig. 4. Locality No. 22: Riparian vegetation by Veleka River south of Brodilovo, 24.7.2023. Locality of hygrophilous and mesophilous species, like Minettia bulgarica (Papp, 1981) (Diptera: Lauxaniidae), Tetanocera arrogans Meigen, 1830 (Diptera: Sciomyzidae – the first precisely located record for Bulgaria) or T. hyalipennis von Roser, 1840 (the first record for Bulgaria). Photo: Kateřina Dvořáková. 6 16: Tsarevo, SW, oak-hornbeam forest, 42°9'17.6"N, 27°48'51.7"E, 210 m a.s.l., 23.7.2023 17: Izgrev, NW, dry oak forest, 42°8'58.2"N, 27°47'28.9"E, 210 m a.s.l., 23.7.2023 18: Izgrev, dry oak forest S, 42°6'50.1"N, 27°48'9.6"E, 230 m a.s.l., 24.7.2023 19: Varvara, SW, dry oak forest, 42°6'37.7"N, 27°53'26.0"E, 60 m a.s.l., 29.7.2023 20: Varvara, SW, humid broadleaf forest, bank of dried stream, 42°6'21.3"N, 27°52'19.7"E, 120 m a.s.l., 29.7.2023 (Fig. 3) 21: Brodilovo, E, dry oak forest, 42°5'1.9"N, 27°52'45.6"E, 120 m a.s.l., 25.7.2023 22: Brodilovo, S, Veleka River riparian vegetation, 42°4'52.7"N, 27°51'38.0"E, 10 m a.s.l., 24.7.2023 (Fig 4) 23: Brodilovo, E, dry oak forest, 42°4'33.2"N, 27°53'53.4"E, 120 m a.s.l., 25.7.2023 24: Ahtopol, S, oak grove by the chapel, 42°4'57.0"N, 27°55'31.4"E, 70 m a.s.l., 25.7.2023 25: Ahtopol, S, bushes by the spring, 42°4'52.1"N, 27°55'26.3"E, 70 m a.s.l., 25.7.2023 (Fig. 5) 26: Sinemorets, W, humid broadleaf forest by Veleka River, track between 42°3'49.7"N, 27°58'14.4"E and 42°2'52.2"N, 27°54'27.8"E, 0–20 m a.s.l., 27.7.2023 (Fig. 6) 27: Sinemorets, steppe NW, 42°3'53.5"N, 27°58'25.5"E, 10 m a.s.l., 28.7.2023 Fig. 5. Locality No. 25: Bushes by the spring south of Ahtopol, 25.7.2023. Hunting of attacking Tabanidae (Diptera). Eight species were recorded including Tabanus exclusus Pandellé, 1883, e. g. Photo: Kateřina Dvořáková. 7 Fig. 6. Locality No. 26: Humid broadleaf forest by Veleka River west of Sinemorets, 27.7.2023. Locality of hygrophilous and mesophilous species, like Homoneura limnea (Becker, 1895) (Diptera: Lauxaniidae – the first precisely located record for Bulgaria), Minettia longipennis (Fabricius, 1794) (Diptera: Lauxaniidae – the first precisely located record for Bulgaria), Haematopota pandazisi (Kröber, 1936) (Diptera: Tabanidae) or Panorpa vulgaris Imhoff & Labram, 1845 (Mecoptera: Panorpidae). Photo: Libor Dvořák. 8 28: Sinemorets, city park, 42°3'38"N, 27°58'34.6"E, 40 m a.s.l., 29.7.2023 29: Sinemorets, dry oak forest S, 42°3'28.3"N, 27°58'32.5"E, 40 m a.s.l., 26.7.2023 30: Sinemorets, beach S, 42°3'2.0"N, 27°59'23.5"E, 0 m a.s.l., 28.7.2023 31: Sinemorets, dry oak forest S, 42°2'41.5"N, 27°59'21.2"E, 50 m a.s.l., 28.7.2023 32: Sinemorets, rocky steppe S, 42°2'39.9"N, 27°59'54.6"E, 10 m a.s.l., 28.7.2023 33: Sinemorets, beach S, 42°2'10.7"N, 28°0'9.0"E, 0 m a.s.l., 28.7.2023 Results and Discussion Coleoptera: Buprestidae Capnodis tenebrionis (Linnaeus, 1761) Localities: 12: 1 ex., 25: 1 ex. Coraebus rubi (Linnaeus, 1767) Localities: 18: 3 ex. Coleoptera: Carabidae Acinopus ammophilus Dejean, 1829 Localities: 27: 1 ex. Acinopus megacephalus (P. Rossi, 1794) Localities: 2: 1 ♂, 1 ♀, 19: 1 ♀, 29: 1 ♂ Dixus eremita (Dejean, 1825) Localities: 13: 1 ex. Notes: This species is missing in the list of ground beetles of the Strandzha mountain massif and adjacent coastal territories (Kostova & Guéorguiev 2016), but it is reported from the southern Bulgarian Black Sea coast (Teofilova et al. 2012). Dixus obscurus (Dejean, 1825) Localities: 32: 1 ex. Harpalus dimidiatus (P. Rossi, 1790) Localities: 14: 1 ♀ Laemostenus terricola punctatus (Dejean, 1828) Localities: 24: 1 ♀ Notes: This taxon is missing in the list of ground beetles of the Strandzha mountain massif and adjacent coastal territories (Kostova & Guéorguiev 2016). However, it is reported by Teofilova et al. (2012) from the southern Bulgarian Black Sea coast (as Laemostenus terricola (Herbst, 1784)). 9 Ophonus gabrieleae Wrase, 1987 (Fig. 7) Localities: 29: 1 ♂ Notes: Known from Bulgaria, Greece, Syria and Turkey (Kataev & Wrase 2017). Ophonus gabrieleae was reported by Hieke & Wrase (1988) from Tsarevo (= Michurin). Kostova & Guéorguiev (2016) state from the Strandzha mountain massif and adjacent coastal territories only original literature data (Tsarevo). Fig. 7. Ophonus gabrielae from locality No. 29. Photo: Pavel Krásenský. Poecilus cupreus cupreus (Linnaeus, 1758) Localities: 22: 1 ♂, 26: 1 ♂ Pterostichus melas (Creutzer, 1799) s. lat. Localities: 26: 2 ♀♀ Coleoptera: Cerambycidae Chlorophorus varius varius (O.F. Müller, 1766) Localities: 3: 1 ex. Purpuricenus kaehleri kaehleri (Linnaeus, 1758) Localities: 11: 1 ex. Stictoleptura cordigera cordigera (Füssli, 1775) Localities: 3: 1 ex. Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae Chrysolina polita polita (Linnaeus, 1758) Localities: 26: 1 ex. Coleoptera: Coccinellidae Coccinella septempunctata Linnaeus, 1758 Localities: 10: 1 ex. 10 Coleoptera: Curculionidae Otiorhynchus ropotamus Angelov, 1974 Localities: 10: 1 ex. Larinus turbinatus Gyllenhal, 1835 Localities: 20: 1 ex. Coleoptera: Dytiscidae Agabus bipustulatus (Linnaeus, 1767) Localities: 9: 2 ex. Coleoptera: Geotrupidae Trypocopris fulgidus (Motschulsky, 1845) Localities:16: 1 ex. Coleoptera: Lucanidae Dorcus parallelipipedus (Linnaeus, 1758) Localities:10: 1 ex. Coleoptera: Meloidae Oenas crassicornis (Illiger, 1800) Localities: 8: 1 ex. Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae Cetonia aurata (Linnaeus, 1758) Localities: 1: 1 ex., 3: 1 ex., 19: 1 ex. Nialus varians (Duftschmid, 1805) Localities:22: 1 ex. Onthophagus illyricus (Scopoli, 1763) Localities: 19: 2 ex. Oryctes nasicornis kuntzeni Minck, 1914 Localities: 19: 1 ex. Oxythyrea funesta (Poda, 1761) Localities: 5: 2 ex. Pentodon idiota (Herbst, 1789) Localities: 7: 1 ex. Sisyphus schaefferi (Linnaeus, 1758) Localities: 6: 1 ex. Dermaptera: Forficulidae Forficula smyrnensis Audinet-Serville, 1839 Localities: 1: 1 ♀, 29: 1 ♂ Notes: Known from several localities in Bulgaria, including Kosti and Gramatikovo in the Stradzha Mts (see Dvořák et al. 2020 for the review). 17 Fig. 14. Thereva aurata from locality No. 1. Photo: Zbyněk Kejval. Hemiptera: Cicadidae Lyristes plebejus (Scopoli, 1763) Localities: 15: 1 ex. Cicada orni Linnaeus, 1758 Localities: 30: 1 ex. Dimissalna dimissa (Hagen 1856) Localities: 15: 1 ex. Pagiphora annulata (Brullé, 1832) Localities: 4: 1 ex., 18: 1 ex. Hymenoptera: Apidae Bombus pascuorum olympicus Vogt, 1909 Localities: 18: 4 ♂♂ Hymenoptera: Megachilidae Megachile sculpturalis Smith, 1853 (Fig. 15) Localities: 28: 1 ♂ Notes: This bee is native to East Asia. In Europe, it was first found near Marseille (France) in 2008 and during the next year it was spreading rapidly; at present it is known from practically whole south Europe from Hungary towards SW, S, and SE (Ruzzier et al. 2020, Bila Dubaić et al. 2022, for more information). The records from Bulgaria were published by Bila Dubaić et al. (2022) and Gradinarov et al. (2023). 18 Fig. 15. Megachile sculpturalis from locality No. 28. Photo: Petr Bogusch. Hymenoptera: Scoliidae Megascolia maculata maculata (Drury, 1773) Localities: 15: 1 ♀ Scolia fuciformis Scopoli, 1786 Localities: 6: 1 ♀, 10: 1 ♀ Scolia hirta (Schrank, 1781) Localities: 2: 1 ♀ Hymenoptera: Vespidae Delta unguiculatum unguiculatum (Villers, 1789) Localities: 1: 1 ♀, 30: 1 ♂ 19 Mecoptera: Panorpidae Panorpa vulgaris Imhoff & Labram, 1845 Localities: 26: 2 ♀♀ Notes: Published from the study region from Tsarevo by Dvořák & Georgiev (2017). Neuroptera: Chrysopidae Italochrysa italica (Rossi, 1790) Localities: 15: 1 ex. Conclusions The records of four species new for Bulgaria and three species with the first precisely located records for Bulgaria (some of them are more or less common and widespread in Europe) clearly shows some gaps in knowledge on distribution of some insect groups in Bulgaria. On the other hands some families are well studied in south-east Bulgaria: from those included in our contribution we can note Carabidae, Tabanidae or Cicadidae, for example. Based on published papers as well as on our data, we can suppose that the insect species richness of the Strandzha Mts and south Black Sea coast can increase by some species known from European Turkey (Yıldız Dağları Mts). Acknowledgements. Authors wishes thank the following colleagues for the identification: Stanislav Benedikt (Plzeň, Czechia), Petr Bogusch (Department of Biology, Faculty of Science, University of Hradec Králové), Matěj Ĉermák (Praha, Czechia), Josef Krošlák (Plzeň, Czechia), Igor Malenovský (Department of Botany and Zoology, Faculty of Science, Masaryk University, Brno, Czechia), Jozef Oboňa (Department of Ecology, Faculty of Humanities and Natural Sciences, University of Prešov, Slovakia), Michal Ouda (Plasy Czechia), Jiří Prokop (Chodov, Czechia), Peter Šima (Koppert, s. r. o., Slovakia), Václav Týr (Ţihle, Czechia). 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