Megagonoscena gallicola Burckhardt & Lauterer 1989

Megagonoscena gallicola Burckhardt & Lauterer, 1989 Feeds on Inducing galls on Pistacia terebinthus L. (= P. palaestina Boiss.) and P. vera L. (Burckhardt and Lauterer 1989). In Bulgaria, we collected adults and immatures on P. terebinthus, one of the confirmed host plants. Distribution General distribution. South-eastern Europe, Middle East. Distribution in Bulgaria (Fig. 30 c). Published records: ROM, RRW (Burckhardt and Lauterer 1989, Pramatarova et al. 2024). Material examined: ROM, RRW. Notes The type locality of M. gallicola is in Bulgaria: Kresna (Burckhardt and Lauterer 1989). Diagnosis Adult and fifth-instar immature (Fig. 30 a, b). Burckhardt and Lauterer (1989).