Bulletin of the Natural History Museum - Plovdiv Bull. Nat. Hist. Mus. Plovdiv, 2018, vol. 3: 27-31 New Information on the Psocoptera fauna of the Bulgarian Black Sea Coast Dilian G. Georgiev*1,2, Ognyan B. Todorov2 1 - University of Plovdiv, Faculty of Biology, Department of Ecology and Environmental Conservation, 24 Tzar Assen Str., BG-4000 Plovdiv, BULGARIA 2 - Regional Natural History Museum – Plovdiv, Hristo G. Danov Str., 34, BG-4000 Plovdiv, BULGARIA *Corresponding author:
[email protected] Abstract. New distributional data are reported for 18 Psocoptera species. Four of them are new records for Bulgaria, and one (Aaroniella badonneli (Danks, 1950)) is a new record for the Balkan Peninsula. Key words: insecta, barkfly, species, Black Sea Coast, distribution. Introduction issue) reported Psyllipsocus ramburii Selys- The very first barkfly record from the Longchamps, 1872 from a cave near Bolata Bulgarian Black Sea coastal area was given by Beach, N Black Sea Coast. MEINANDER (1978), describing the species In this paper we give additional information Trimerocaecilius popovi Meinander, 1978. about the Psocoptera species of the Bulgarian Thirty nine years later GEORGIEV (2017) Black Sea Coast, with some of them as new reported some information on the species records for the country and one for the Balkan diversity of the Psocoptera fauna of the same Peninsula. region. The following species were reported: - North Black Sea Coast: Cerobasis guestfalica Material and Methods (Kolbe, 1880), Liposcelis bostrychophila The barkflies were collected during 2017 and Badonnel, 1931, Ectopsocus briggsi McLachlan, 2018, by following methods: 1. Actively searched 1899, Ectopsocus meridionalis Ribaga, 1904, in proper habitats or around light during night, Trichopsocus dalii (McLachlan, 1867), and collected by a wet brush or grass straw; 2.