Strongylogaster xanthocera (Stephens, 1835) *

Material.

Varna: 5♂, Staro Oryahovo 2 km SW, 120 m, 42.976N, 27.787E, 08.04.2018. 1♀, 7♂, locality as previous, 11.04.2018. All specimens swept from very young growth of Pteridium aquilinum (L.) Kuhn, the main host plant. Males can be identified using the characters described by Welke (1959: 253-254) .

Strongylogaster xanthocera has an extensive Palaearctic distribution (Sundukov 2017), including North Africa (Blank 2002).