Phlebotomus (Phlebotomus) papatasi (Scopoli, 1786)

Previous records in Bulgaria. Artemiev & Neronov (1984) as P. papataci; Schischkov & Konsuloff (1914); Dren-sky (1926), (1931), (1942), (1955); Drensky & Drensky (1928); Kitanov (1943); Ganoff (1949); Bojtschev (1950), all sensu Beschovski (1965).

Distribution. Currently known to occur in Afghanistan, Albania, Algeria, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Baleares, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Chad, Crete, Crimea, Croatia, Cyprus, Egypt, Eritrea, Ethiopia, France, Georgia, Greece, Hungary, India, Iran, Iraq, Israel, Italy, Jordan, Kazakhstan, Kuwait, Libya, Macedonia, Malta, Moldavia, Montenegro, Morocco, Oman, Pakistan, Portugal, Romania, Sardinia, Saudi Arabia, Serbia, Slovenia, Somalia, Southern Yemen, Spain, Sudan, Syria, Tunisia, Turkey, Ukraine, Yemen. Europe, Asia, northern parts of the Oriental and Afrotropical Regions; Western part of Old World, North Africa, Mediterranean area east to Indian subcontinent (Perfiljev 1966; Lewis 1982; Artemiev & Neronov 1984; Wagner 1990, 2018; Wagner et al. 2002; Melaun et al. 2014; Ježek et al. 2018; Oboňa et al. 2019a).