Stenodera caucasica

Stenodera caucasica (Pallas, 1781) (Plate III, 23) Material examined: Bulgaria, Sakar Mts, W of Ustrem Vill., 42°01.374’N 26°26.975’E, 104 m a.s.l., riverine vegetation, agricultural field boundaries, 03.vii.2022, 1 ♀ (BFUS- MEL000113), D. Gradinarov leg.; Bulgaria, Sakar Mts, N of Yerusalimovo Vill., 41°54.303’N 26°06.074’E, 174 m a.s.l., dirt road, xerothermic grasslands (Fig. 1 B), 26.v.2023, 1 ♀ (BFUS-MEL000114), D. Gradinarov leg. In the revised edition of the Catalogue of Palaearctic Coleoptera (Bologna 2020), 60 species of Meloidae are listed for Bulgaria. However, firstly reported by Nedelkov (1905) and found also in the present study Apalus bipunctatus, the reported by Angelov (1986) and Siering & Beier (2019) Sitaris muralis (Förster, 1771), as well as Nemognatha chrysomelina (Fabricius, 1775) (Siering et al. 2017), Mylabris olivieri Billberg, 1813 and Euzonitis adustipennis (Motschulsky, 1872) (Siering & Beier 2019) are omitted in the Catalogue. With this inclusion the number of known species of the family Meloidae in Bulgaria is 65.