Hoplocampa cantoti Chevin, 1986 *

Liston, Andrew, Prous, Marko & Macek, Jan, 2019, On Bulgarian sawflies, including a new species of Empria (Hymenoptera, Symphyta), Deutsche Entomologische Zeitschrift 66 (1), pp. 85-105 : 93

Hoplocampa cantoti Chevin, 1986 *

Material.

Varna: 1♀, Tsonevo 5 km S, 100 m, 42.982N, 27.451E, 02.04.2018. 1♀ (DEI-GISHym88748), locality as previous, 03.04.2018. 1♀, locality as previous, 06.04.2018. 5♀, Dolni Chiflik 2 km SE, 50 m, 42.983N, 27.743E, 05.04.2018. 1♀, locality as previous, 13.04.2018. Mostly swept from Prunus spinosa L., and once or twice from P. domestica L. growing among these .

Chevin (1986) suggested that the host of H. cantoti is Prunus mahaleb L., which is a characteristic component of the woody vegetation of the two known French localities. However, Prunus mahaleb was not seen at the Bulgarian localities. Therefore, we suppose that the host is Prunus spinosa , from which we collected most of the specimens.

Until now, this species was only known from the three female type specimens collected in northern France ( Chevin 1986) .