Spittlebugs (Hemiptera: Cercopoidea) of Sarnena Sredna Gora (Bulgaria)

Abstract

The superfamily Cercopoidea (spittlebugs), an insect group in the suborder Auchenorrhyncha (Hemiptera), is represented in Europe by two families – Cercopidae and Aphrophoridae. Currently there are 18 species – 5 of cercopids and 13 of aphrophorids, known in Bulgaria. Two of them – Haematoloma dorsata (Ahrens, 1812) and Aphrophora costalis (Matsumura, 1903) are recorded in the country without any location data and their presence needs to be confirmed. The spittlebugs of Sarnena Sredna Gora mountain are very poorly examined. The present study is based on material, collected between 2016 and 2020. As a result, 7 species were recorded - Cercopis intermedia Kirschbaum, 1868 (Cercopidae), Aphrophora alni (Fallén, 1805), A. salicina (Goeze, 1778), A. pectoralis (Matsumura, 1903), Lepyronia coleoptrata (Linnaeus, 1758), Neophilaenus campestris (Fallén, 1805) and Philaenus spumarius (Linnaeus, 1758) (Aphrophoridae). The Euro-Siberian species associated with willows (Salix spp.), Aphrophora pectoralis, was recorded for the first time with locality data in Bulgaria

Keywords

• cicadomorpha
• spittlebugs
• cercopoidea
• bulgaria
• sarnena sredna gora