Ectobius punctatissimus Ramme, 1922

Hristov, Georgi H. & Chobanov, Dragan P., 2016, An annotated checklist and key to the Bulgarian cockroaches (Dictyoptera: Blattodea), Zootaxa 4154 (4), pp. 351-388 : 360

Ectobius punctatissimus Ramme, 1922

Figure 60

Ectobius punctatissimus was recorded from Strandzha Mountain (Gramatikovo village, 5.VI–6.VI.1959, leg. R. Bańkowska) by Bazyluk (1961: 432). All subsequent publications mentioning this species from Bulgaria ( Princis 1963: 68; Princis 1965: 17, 26; Princis 1971: 1072; Harz & Kaltenbach 1976: 249; Hubenov et al. 1998: 341) rely on the latter record.

This species occurs in Italy and the western part of the Balkan Peninsula as south as Albania. No confirmed data for the occurrence of this species in Bulgaria exists. Though we were unable to study the material recorded by Bazyluk (1961), based on the remote range of the species and own unpublished data (Hristov, unp.) we consider the records for this species in Bulgaria erroneous.

Figures

FIGURES 54 – 71. Morphological structures. 54 — tergite 7 with glandular pit of Ectobius balcani (BG, Alibotoush Mt., Livade place); 55 — tergite 7 with glandular pit of E. burri (BG, Zemen gorge, Zemen town); 56 — tergite 7 with glandular pit of E. erythronotus erythronotus (BG, Lozen Mt., Lozen village); 57 — tergite 7 with glandular pit of E. lapponicus (BG, Western Predbalkan range, Montana town); 58 — tergite 7 with glandular pit of E. sylvestris (BG, Pirin Mts., Bansko town); 59 — tergite 7 with glandular pit Ectobius vittiventris (BG, Strandzha Mt., Byala voda village); 60 — tergite 7 with glandular pit of E. punctatissimus (Montenegro, Durmitor Mt., Tara gorge); 61 — tergite 7 with glandular pit of Phyllodromica brevipennis (BG, Vitosha Mt., Yarlovo village); 62 — tergite 7 with glandular pit of Ph. carniolica (BG, Vitosha Mt., Bosnek village); 63 — tergite 7 with glandular pit of Ph. pallida (R Macedonia, Plačkovica Mt., Kozbunar village); 64 — tergite 7 with glandular pit of Ph. marginata (BG, Eastern Rhodope Mts., Madzharovo town); 65 — tergite 7 with glandular pit of Ph. pulcherrima (BG, Chepan Mt., Dragoman village); 66 — helmet sclerite of E. sylvestris (BG, Pirin Mts., Bansko town); 67 — helmet sclerite of Ph. brevipennis (BG, Vitosha Mt., Yarlovo village); 68 — helmet sclerite of Ph. carniolica (BG, Vitosha Mt., Bosnek village); 69 — helmet sclerite of Ph. pallida (R Macedonia, Plačkovica Mt., Kozbunar village); 70 — tegmina of male Ph. carniolica (BG, Western Rhodope Mts., Ribnovo village); 71 — tegmina of male Ph. pallida (Albania, Galičica Mt., Dolna Gorica village). Scale (figures 54 – 65) = 500 µm; Scale (figures 66 – 69) = 200 µm; Scale (figures 70, 71) = 2 mm.