Strophingia cinereae Hodkinson 1971

Strophingia cinereae Hodkinson, 1971 Feeds on In Bulgaria, we collected adults on Erica arborea L., which is one of the confirmed host plants (Hodkinson 1981). Distribution General distribution. Great Britain, Mediterranean parts of Europe and North Africa. Distribution in Bulgaria (Fig. 43). Material examined: PBS. Notes New record for Bulgaria. Strophingia cinereae has so far only been collected in the Strandzha Mountains near the Black Sea coast in the south-eastern part of the country in a habitat of nature conservation importance ' Strandzha heaths of tree heather (Erica arborea) and common heather (Calluna vulgaris) ' (Gussev 2015). Diagnosis Adult and fifth-instar immature. Hodkinson (1981), Ossiannilsson (1992).