Ectobius burri Adelung, 1917

Hristov, Georgi H. & Chobanov, Dragan P., 2016, An annotated checklist and key to the Bulgarian cockroaches (Dictyoptera: Blattodea), Zootaxa 4154 (4), pp. 351-388 : 354

Ectobius burri Adelung, 1917

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Ectobius burri burri Adel. : 19. Karaman & Karaman 1987: 3.

Notes to the literature data. In the paper by Karaman & Karaman (1987), the subspecific diagnostic characters are not clearly defined and thus identification of the concerned taxa is problematic. Therefore the subspecies categories of E. burri were not considered in the present work. From the new collected material from Bulgaria, we found specimens, which were different from the species E. balcani and E. erythronotus and they were similar to the characteristics suggested by Karaman & Karaman (1987), so the species E. burri Adelung was included in the checklist of cockroaches for Bulgaria .

Distribution in Bulgaria ( Fig. 73 ): This species usually inhabits high-grass and low-shrub mesomorphic communities from the lowlands to 700 m alt. It keeps in the leaf litter or on the low vegetation, but sometimes climbs to the top of low trees and shrubs.

Studied material. 201 specimens (168 adults, 33 nymphs) and 7 oothecae.

General distribution. E. burri is known from Serbia, R Macedonia, Bulgaria, and North Greece .

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FIGURE 73. Distribution of Ectobius burri and Ectobius lapponicus in Bulgaria.

FIGURES 1 – 16. Dorsal habitus of adult males. 1 — Ectobius balcani (BG, Chepan Mt., Dragoman village); 2 — E. burri (BG, Zemen gorge, Zemen town); 3 — E. burri (BG, Zemen gorge, Zemen town); 4 — E. burri (BG, Zemen gorge, Zemen town); 5 — E. erythronotus erythronotus (BG, Eastern Danubian plate, Tabachka village); 6 — E. lapponicus (BG, Eastern Stara Planina Mts., Varbitsa pass); 7 — E. sylvestris (BG, Lozen Mt., Pancharevo lake); 8 — E. vittiventris (BG, Strandzha Mt., Byala voda village); 9 — Capraiellus tamaninii (Croatia, Senj; labeled: Sign, Kroatien, Coll. Br. v. W., det: C. Brunner von Wattenwyl as Ectobia ericetorum; NHM); 10 — Phyllodromica brevipennis (BG, Lozen Mt., Lozen village); 11 — Ph. carniolica (BG, Eastern Stara Planina Mts., Medven village); 12 — Ph. pallida (R Macedonia, Plačkovica Mt., Kozbunar village); 13 — Ph. marginata (BG, Southern Black Sea Coast, Sinemorets village); 14 — Ph. marginata (BG, Eastern Rhodope Mts., Plevun village); 15 — Ph. pulcherrima (BG, Chepan Mt., Dragoman village); 16 — Loboptera decipiens decipiens (BG, Eastern Rhodope Mts., Belopolyane village). Scale = 5 mm.

FIGURES 17 – 30. Dorsal habitus of adult females. 17 — Ectobius balcani (BG, Chepan Mt., Dragoman village); 18 — E. burri (BG, Zemen gorge, Zemen town); 19 — E. erythronotus erythronotus (BG, Eastern Danubian plate, Osenets village); 20 — E. lapponicus (BG, Eastern Danubian plate, Senovo village); 21 — E. sylvestris (BG, Lozen Mt., Pancharevo lake); 22 — E. vittiventris (BG, Strandzha Mt., Brodilovo village); 23 — Capraiellus tamaninii (Alibotoush Mt., Nova Lovcha village); 24 — Phyllodromica brevipennis (BG, Ograzhden Mt., Markovi Kladentsi peak); 25 — Ph. carniolica (BG, Eastern Stara Planina Mts., Sadovo village); 26 — Ph. pallida (Greece, Vermio Mt., Koustochori village); 27 — Ph. marginata (BG, Eastern Rhodope Mts., Belopolyane village); 28 — Ph. marginata (BG, Eastern Rhodope Mts., Belopolyane village); 29 — Ph. pulcherrima (BG, Eastern Danubian plate, Tabachka village); 30 — Loboptera decipiens decipiens (BG, Eastern Rhodope Mts., Belopolyane village). Scale = 5 mm.

FIGURES 41 – 53. Oothecae of some species of cockroaches in Bulgaria. 41 — Ectobius balcani (BG, Belasitsa Mt., Kongur Nature Reserve); 42 — E. burri (BG, Zemen gorge, Zemen town); 43 — E. erythronotus erythronotus (BG, Lozen Mt., Lozen village); 44 — E. lapponicus (BG, Eastern Stara Planina Mts., Varbitsa pass); 45 — E. sylvestris (BG, Middle Stara Planina Mts., Rozino village); 46 — E. vittiventris (BG, Strandzha Mt., Slivarovo village); 47 — Phyllodromica brevipennis (BG, Lozen Mt., Lozen village); 48 — Ph. carniolica (BG, Middle Stara Planina Mts, Yasenovo village); 49 — Ph. pallida (Albania, Çika Mt., Llogora National Park, Llogara pass); 50 — Ph. marginata (BG, Eastern Rhodope Mts., near Pokrovan village); 51 — Ph. pulcherrima (BG, Northern Black Sea Coast, Devnya town); 52 — Loboptera decipiens decipiens (BG, Eastern Rhodope Mt., Malki Voden village); 53 — Polyphaga aegyptiaca (BG, Sandanski – Petrich kettle, Rupite place). Scale = 1 mm (figures 41 – 52); Scale = 5 mm (figure 53).

FIGURES 54 – 71. Morphological structures. 54 — tergite 7 with glandular pit of Ectobius balcani (BG, Alibotoush Mt., Livade place); 55 — tergite 7 with glandular pit of E. burri (BG, Zemen gorge, Zemen town); 56 — tergite 7 with glandular pit of E. erythronotus erythronotus (BG, Lozen Mt., Lozen village); 57 — tergite 7 with glandular pit of E. lapponicus (BG, Western Predbalkan range, Montana town); 58 — tergite 7 with glandular pit of E. sylvestris (BG, Pirin Mts., Bansko town); 59 — tergite 7 with glandular pit Ectobius vittiventris (BG, Strandzha Mt., Byala voda village); 60 — tergite 7 with glandular pit of E. punctatissimus (Montenegro, Durmitor Mt., Tara gorge); 61 — tergite 7 with glandular pit of Phyllodromica brevipennis (BG, Vitosha Mt., Yarlovo village); 62 — tergite 7 with glandular pit of Ph. carniolica (BG, Vitosha Mt., Bosnek village); 63 — tergite 7 with glandular pit of Ph. pallida (R Macedonia, Plačkovica Mt., Kozbunar village); 64 — tergite 7 with glandular pit of Ph. marginata (BG, Eastern Rhodope Mts., Madzharovo town); 65 — tergite 7 with glandular pit of Ph. pulcherrima (BG, Chepan Mt., Dragoman village); 66 — helmet sclerite of E. sylvestris (BG, Pirin Mts., Bansko town); 67 — helmet sclerite of Ph. brevipennis (BG, Vitosha Mt., Yarlovo village); 68 — helmet sclerite of Ph. carniolica (BG, Vitosha Mt., Bosnek village); 69 — helmet sclerite of Ph. pallida (R Macedonia, Plačkovica Mt., Kozbunar village); 70 — tegmina of male Ph. carniolica (BG, Western Rhodope Mts., Ribnovo village); 71 — tegmina of male Ph. pallida (Albania, Galičica Mt., Dolna Gorica village). Scale (figures 54 – 65) = 500 µm; Scale (figures 66 – 69) = 200 µm; Scale (figures 70, 71) = 2 mm.