Carpophilus (Carpophilus) hemipterus

Carpophilus (Carpophilus) hemipterus (Linnaeus, 1758) Material examined: Sakar Mts, Ustrem Vill., 42°01.345’N 26°27.391’E, 95 m a.s.l., street side vegetation (Fig. 1 A, C), 10.ix.2024, 1 ♀ (BFUS-COL000001), emerged 10.ix.– 15.x.2024 from decaying figs, D. Gradinarov & Y. Petrova leg. (Fig. 2 A). Carpophilus hemipterus is a cosmopolitan species (Jelínek & Audisio 2007) with Paleotropical origin, introduced in the Mediterranean probably in the Roman Age (Jelínek et al. 2016). The species has been repeatedly reported from Bulgaria by various authors (Tomov & Trencheva 2013) but is omitted for the country in the Catalogue of Palaearctic Coleoptera (Jelínek & Audisio 2007).