Nosodomodes diabolicus (Schaufuss, 1862)

Materials

Type status: Other material. Occurrence: catalogNumber: BFUS-COL 000852; recordedBy: Yana Petrova; individualCount: 1; sex: male; occurrenceID: 9CA8EE95-B2EA-5224-9612-5ED824C1F009; Location: country: Bulgaria; stateProvince: Stara Zagora; municipality: Bratya Daskalovi; locality: Sarnena Gora Mountains, NW of Gorno Novo Selo Village; verbatimElevation: 800 m; decimalLatitude: 42.47418; decimalLongitude: 25.22207; geodeticDatum: WGS 84; Identification: identifiedBy: Denis Gradinarov; dateIdentified: 2021; Event: samplingProtocol: under oak bark; verbatimEventDate: 24. ix. 2018; habitat: deciduous forest

Type status: Other material. Occurrence: catalogNumber: BFUS-COL 000853; recordedBy: Ognyan Sivilov; individualCount: 1; sex: male; occurrenceID: 33A5A1C8-C902-5D5C-B92E-7070BAFF8C80; Location: country: Bulgaria; stateProvince: Shumen; municipality: Shumen; locality: Shumensko Plato Nature Park; verbatimElevation: 485 m; decimalLatitude: 43.255567; decimalLongitude: 26.887117; geodeticDatum: WGS 84; Identification: identifiedBy: Denis Gradinarov; dateIdentified: 2026; Event: samplingProtocol: under beech bark; verbatimEventDate: 01. vi. 2019; habitat: beech forest

Type status: Other material. Occurrence: catalogNumber: BFUS-COL 000854; recordedBy: Ognyan Sivilov; individualCount: 1; sex: female; occurrenceID: FD760EFC-5DAE-5A40-B513-F5C659705480; Location: country: Bulgaria; stateProvince: Shumen; municipality: Shumen; locality: Shumensko Plato Nature Park; verbatimElevation: 485 m; decimalLatitude: 43.255567; decimalLongitude: 26.887117; geodeticDatum: WGS 84; Identification: identifiedBy: Denis Gradinarov; dateIdentified: 2026; Event: samplingProtocol: under beech bark; verbatimEventDate: 01. vi. 2019; habitat: beech forest

Type status: Other material. Occurrence: catalogNumber: BFUS-COL 000855; recordedBy: Ognyan Sivilov; individualCount: 1; sex: male; occurrenceID: 626D990B-2CB6-50C4-B1FD-E7692F0CC7BD; Location: country: Bulgaria; stateProvince: Shumen; municipality: Shumen; locality: Shumensko Plato Nature Park; verbatimElevation: 485 m; decimalLatitude: 43.254167; decimalLongitude: 26.888433; geodeticDatum: WGS 84; Identification: identifiedBy: Denis Gradinarov; dateIdentified: 2026; Event: samplingProtocol: under beech bark; verbatimEventDate: 01. vi. 2019; habitat: beech forest

Distribution

Armenia, Bulgaria, Greece, North Macedonia, Romania, Ukraine, Serbia and Montenegro, Asian Türkiye (Schuh 2020); Iran (Otero and Ghahari 2020); Moldova (Bacal 2023, Bacal and Buşmachiu 2025).

Notes

In Bulgaria, this species has been recorded from Emine Cape (Palm (1966): 14, as Corticus diabolicus) and from Petrohan (Dajoz (1971): 99, as Corticus diabolicus). Here, we record N. diabolicus from Sarnena Gora Mountains (Fig. 11) and from Shumensko Plato Nature Park.