Panorpa vulgaris Imhoff & Labram, 1845

Dvořák, Libor, Georgiev, Dilian, ., P. P., P., P., W, ., P., P., P., . & ., 2017, New and interesting records of scorpion flies of the genus Panorpa Mecoptera: Panorpidae) from Bulgaria with a country checklist, Ecologica Montenegrina 15, pp. 22-25 : 23-24

Panorpa vulgaris Imhoff & Labram, 1845

N Sakar Mts. , river bank forest near Ovcharitsa River, 116 m, 42°08'09.9"N, 25°47'13.6"E, 30.4.2017, 1 ♂ .

Upper Thracian Lowland, Plovdiv city, near Maritsa River , E of Gerdzhika bridge, 42°09'10.6"N, 24°43'50.7"E, 161 m, 18.5.2017, 1 ♂ .

Sarnena Gora Mts., N of Stara Zagora, along Bedechka River , flood forest ( Fig. 2 ), among Petasites , 227 m, 42°27'06.9"N, 25°37'54.8"E, 16.5.2017, 1 ♀ .

Sakar Mts. , E of Svilengrad town, flood forest near river, 90 m, 41°47'24.8"N, 26°14'53.5"E, 27.5.2017, 1 ♀ . Black Sea coast, South of Tsarevo town, near Lisovo Dere River, 8 m, 42°09'17.2" N, 27°51'14.4" E, 27.6.2017, 1 ♀ .

Species of western, central, and northern Europe. Devetak (1998) reported P. vulgaris as the rarest Panorpa species. No record south of Slovenia was known. Our material represents the first records of P. vulgaris from Bulgaria (see Fig. 1 for distribution) and from the Balkans except its northernmost hook in Slovenia. It is interesting that P. vulgaris was recorded in Bulgaria in the lowest altitudes only, the maximum heigth is 227 m a.s.l. in Stara Zagora vicinity.

Checklist of Bulgarian taxa of the genus Panorpa

All species reliably confirmed for Bulgarian fauna are listed in the following checklist. The species marked with an asterisk (*) are published after 2010 for the first time for Bulgaria.

Panorpa alpina Rambur, 1842

Panorpa communis Linnaeus, 1758

Panorpa germanica germanica Linnaeus, 1758

Panorpa germanica rumelica Lauterbach, 1972

Panorpa hybrida MacLachlan, 1882

* Panorpa schweigeri Willmann, 1975

* Panorpa thrakica Willmann, 1976

* Panorpa vulgaris Imhoff & Labram, 1845

In this paper we report a new Panorpa species for the fauna of Bulgaria, P. vulgaris . It is the third new country record from this Mecoptera genus published during last four years. According to the present knowledge, Bulgaria Panorpa checklist contains seven species.

Acknowledgements. Authors are grateful to Ms Reni Kotseva for the collection of a specimen of Panorpa germanica rumelica from the area of Mazalat. The trips of D. Georgiev in South Bulgaria were partly financed by the project of Plovdiv University “Evaluation of the anthropogenic stress on the wetlands of South Bulgaria ”, No. FP17-BF-001.

Figures

Figure 1 Records of three Panorpa taxa in Bulgaria. Stars: P. hybrida (empty for published record), squares: P. vulgaris, circles: P. germanica rumelica (empty for published record). Orig.: Dilian Georgiev.

Figure 2. Flood forest along Bedechka River, Sarnena Gora Mts., locality of Panorpa hybrida MacLachlan, 1882 and Panorpa vulgaris Imhoff & Labram, 1845. Photo: Dilian Georgiev.