Aulonium ruficorne (A. G. Olivier, 1790)

Materials

Type status: Other material. Occurrence: catalogNumber: BFUS-COL 000780; recordedBy: Denis Gradinarov & Yana Petrova; individualCount: 1; sex: male; occurrenceID: C9D0BD33-2645-5BDD-9409-DDD686290C16; Location: country: Bulgaria; stateProvince: Haskovo; municipality: Topolovgrad; locality: Sakar Mountains, SE of Ustrem Village; verbatimElevation: 215 m; decimalLatitude: 41.972583; decimalLongitude: 26.483117; geodeticDatum: WGS 84; Identification: identifiedBy: Denis Gradinarov; dateIdentified: 2026; Event: samplingProtocol: under peeled pine bark; verbatimEventDate: 14. iv. 2023; habitat: mixed forest

Distribution

Azerbaijan, Armenia, Bulgaria, Croatia, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Italy, North Macedonia, Romania, Spain, South European Territory of Russia, Ukraine, Serbia and Montenegro, European and Asian Türkiye, Iran, Israel, Lebanon, Turkmenistan, Algeria, Morocco, Tunisia (Schuh 2020); Portugal (Molina 2023).

Notes

This species has been previously reported for Bulgaria without exact locality (Ślipiński and Schuh 2008, Schuh 2020). In the present study, we report A. ruficorne from Sakar Mountains (Fig. 3) and, thus, confirm the presence of this species for the country.