Jumping plant lice (Hemiptera, Psylloidea) of Bulgaria – an annotated checklist

Twenty-five species of jumping plant lice are recorded here from Bulgaria for the first time. Of these, two species represent new records for Europe: <i>Dyspersakantshavelii</i> (Gegechkori, 1977) and <i>Heterotriozakochiae</i> (Gegechkori, 1975); and three additional species represent new records for the Balkan Peninsula: <i>Arytainillaspartiicola</i> (Šulc, 1912), <i>Craspedoleptaaraneosa</i> Loginova, 1962 and <i>Eryngiofagababugani</i> (Loginova, 1964). A new synonymy is proposed: <i>Colposceniaosmanica</i> Vondráček, 1953 = <i>Colposceniakiritshenkoi</i> Loginova, 1960, syn. nov. A lectotype is designated for <i>C.osmanica</i> to stabilise the nomenclature. Original drawings or photographs of diagnostic characters on male and female terminalia are provided for <i>C.osmanica</i>, <i>D.kantshavelii</i>, <i>Heterotriozaeurotiae</i> (Loginova, 1960) and <i>H.kochiae</i>. Distributional maps summarising all known records from Bulgaria are provided for each species. Where available, photographs of live or mounted specimens and information on host plants are also provided, including new host plant records for 10 species. The previously published records of <i>Aphalarasauteri</i> Burckhardt, 1983, <i>Bactericeraacutipennis</i> (Zetterstedt, 1828), <i>B.reuteri</i> (Šulc, 1913), <i>Dyspersaapicalis</i> (Foerster, 1848), <i>D.viridula</i> (Zetterstedt, 1828), <i>Eryngiofagamesomela</i> (Flor, 1861) and <i>Triozadispar</i> Löw, 1878 from Bulgaria are considered doubtful and these species are deleted from the list of the Bulgarian fauna, which now comprises 130 species from 33 genera and six families of jumping plant lice. This diversity is compared with the known data on Psylloidea in other countries of the Balkan Peninsula and Turkey and the Bulgarian psyllid fauna is discussed from the perspective of biogeography.