Livia mediterranea Loginova 1974

Livia mediterranea Loginova, 1974 Distribution General distribution. Southern Europe, North Africa, Caucasus, Middle East. Distribution in Bulgaria (Fig. 49). Published records: RRW (Harizanov and Lauterer 1968, as L. crefeldensis); Bulgaria, without locality data (Loginova 1974 a, Hodkinson and Bird 2000). Material examined: PBC, PSP. Notes The type locality of L. mediterranea is in Georgia, but paratypes from Bulgaria (collected by Harizanov, without exact locality data) were also used for the species description (Loginova 1974 a, Hodkinson and Bird 2000). The species seems to be rare in Bulgaria, as only a few specimens have been collected so far. Diagnosis Adult. Loginova (1974 a), Hodkinson and Bird (2000).