New records of Trox Fabricius, 1775 species (Scarabaeoidea: Trogidae) from Bulgaria

• Main Authors: YANA PETROVA, DENIS GRADINAROV, OGNYAN SIVILOV
• Format: Article
• Language: Bulgarian
• Published: Plovdiv University 2019-11-01
• Series: ZooNotes
• Subjects: trogidae; trox; bulgaria
• Online Access: http://www.zoonotes.bio.uni-plovdiv.bg/ZooNotes_2019/ZooNotes_151_2019_Petrova_et_al.pdf

Five species of genus Trox Fabricius, 1775 are known for Bulgaria: Trox niger P. Rossi, 1792, T. perrisii Fairmaire, 1868, T. sabulosus sabulosus (Linnaeus, 1758), T. scaber (Linnaeus, 1767) and T. sordidatus Balthasar, 1936 (Guéorguiev & Bunalski 2004). The species T. eversmannii Krynicki, 1832 is reported from Sofia (Joakimov 1904), but according to Guéorguiev & Bunalski (2004) this record is doubtful and needs further confirmation. Findings of Trox species in Bulgaria are scarce (Guéorguiev & Bunalski 2004) and rarely published. In the present work, we provide new data on the distribution of four species of the genus in the country. The material was collected in the period 2004 – 2019 in different regions of Bulgaria, mainly by light trapping. The examined specimens are preserved in the Zoological Collection of Sofia University, Faculty of Biology (BFUS) and in the collection of the first author (YP). Abbreviations for collectors names: BZ: B. Zlatkov; DC: Dragan Chobanov; DG: D. Gradinarov; DK: D. Kaynarov; EC: E. Chehlarov; GH: G. Hristov; OK: O. Karsholt; OS: O. Sivilov; PM: P. Mitov; RK: R. Kostova; SB: S. Beshkov; YP: Y. Petrova.