Asaphes vulgaris (Walker, 1834)

Todorov, Ivaylo, Mitroiu, Mircea-Dan, Bobeva, Aneliya & Boyadzhiev, Peter, 2024, Description of Mesopolobus askewi sp. nov. (Hymenoptera, Pteromalidae), with notes on the fauna of Asaphesinae and Pteromalidae (Hymenoptera, Chalcidoidea) collected from foliage of Picea abies (L.) H. Karst. in Bulgaria, Biodiversity Data Journal 12, pp. e 139403-e 139403 : e139403-

Asaphes vulgaris (Walker, 1834)

Materials

Type status: Other material. Occurrence: recordedBy: Ivaylo Todorov leg.; sex: 6 females, 1 male; occurrenceID: E0520583-23DB-5F7D-8EF8-A1DEF2EA28EA; Location: country: Bulgaria; locality: Stara Planina: Chiprovska Mts, W Chiprovtsi ; verbatimElevation: 1540 m; decimalLatitude: 43.34583; decimalLongitude: 22.81616; Event: verbatimEventDate: 18. VII. 2019

Type status: Other material. Occurrence: recordedBy: Ivaylo Todorov leg.; sex: 8 females, 5 males; occurrenceID: ADB6C85C-DEDC-5A03-9742-A04DBE8E7741; Location: country: Bulgaria; locality: Stara Planina: Chiprovska Mts, W Chiprovtsi ; verbatimElevation: 1540 m; decimalLatitude: 43.34583; decimalLongitude: 22.81616; Event: verbatimEventDate: 17. VII. 2020

Type status: Other material. Occurrence: recordedBy: Ivaylo Todorov leg.; sex: 2 female; occurrenceID: DD8732A8-C9C8-5D1A-B90D-3DF91DEAB7EE; Location: country: Bulgaria; locality: Stara Planina: Shipchenska Mts, near Partizanska pesen hut ; verbatimElevation: 1185 m; decimalLatitude: 42.78369; decimalLongitude: 25.19775; Event: verbatimEventDate: 26. VII. 2019

Type status: Other material. Occurrence: recordedBy: Ivaylo Todorov leg.; sex: 152 females, 7 males; occurrenceID: 87E42CD5-6400-56B8-8C33-90EE57FF6DFA; Location: country: Bulgaria; locality: Stara Planina: Troyanska Mts, near Beklemeto ; verbatimElevation: 1433 m; decimalLatitude: 42.78280; decimalLongitude: 24.62160; Event: verbatimEventDate: 17. VIII. 2021

Type status: Other material. Occurrence: recordedBy: Ivaylo Todorov leg.; sex: 10 females; occurrenceID: 360826DF-D15B-5DD9-A5A7-7A4D8116609C; Location: country: Bulgaria; locality: Western Rhodope Mts, near Pamporovo ; verbatimElevation: 1580 m; decimalLatitude: 41.62250; decimalLongitude: 24.70100; Event: verbatimEventDate: 15. VII. 2021

Distribution

Probably native to Europe or at most to Western Palearctic and later introduced to North America. Records from Afrotropical and Neotropical Regions, as well as those from Greenland, have most likely been based on misidentifications ( Gibson and Vikberg 1998). In Australasian fauna, A. vulgaris also has probably been introduced from Europe ( Bouček 1988).