Cacopsylla bidens

Cacopsylla bidens (Šulc, 1907) Feeds on Oligophagous on Pyrus; the previously known hosts were P. communis L., P. pyraster (L.) Burgsd. and P. syriaca Boiss. (Burckhardt and Hodkinson 1986, Cho et al. 2017 b). In Bulgaria, adults were collected on P. communis by Głowacka (1989) and Etropolska et al. (2015) and on P. spinosa Forrsk. by us; the latter is also a probable host. Distribution General distribution. Central and southern Europe, North Africa, Middle East, Central Asia, India, Mongolia, China; alien in South America. Distribution in Bulgaria (Fig. 59). Published records: PK, PKQ, PSA, PSL, ROP (Głowacka 1989, Etropolska et al. 2015, Pramatarova et al. 2023). Material examined: BN, DEL, PBS, PSA, ROM, ROV. Diagnosis Adult. Burckhardt and Hodkinson (1986), Burckhardt (2010), Valle et al. (2017). Fifth-instar immature. Burckhardt and Hodkinson (1986), Burckhardt (2010).