Author(s): Popov, A.
Title: Zoogeographical analysis of Neuroptera in Bulgaria
Year: 2002
Volume: 48
Pages: 271-280.
Abstract: The Bulgarian species of Neuroptera have been analysed according to origin, not on the basis of chorology. In Bulgaria, the more cold-loving of the Siberian elements inhabit the mountains only (Sympherobius fuscescens, Micromus paganus) and some ubiquists from the same category occur in the whole country (Chrysopa perla, Myrmeleon formicarius). Most of the Siberian–Mediterranean species have a broad ecological plasticity (Coniopteryx pygmaea, Chrysopa formosa). Only species with a typical Holarctic distribution in North America, but not Siberian and Holomediterranean elements that are probably casually introduced in the Nearctic, are interpreted as Siberian–Nearctic. The Central European and the Central European–Mediterranean species are rare components in the Bulgarian fauna. Holomediterranean elements are about twice as numerous as the Pontomediterranean ones. The expansive Holomediterranean species prevail considerably over the stationary ones. Among the Pontomediterranean elements both groups are equally represented in the fauna of Bulgaria. They have a Balkan (Dilar turcicus, Nedroledon anatolicus) or an Anatolian (Isoscelipteron fulvum, Hemerobius zernyi) origin. The species of southern origin (the Mediterranean elements) comprise 52% of the Bulgarian fauna of Neuroptera and predominate slightly over the species of northern origin (originated from the Central European and from the Siberian centres).
Keywords: Neuroptera, Bulgaria, zoogeography, arboreal, oreotundral, eremial
Journal: Acta Zoologica Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae
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ISSN: 1217-8837
Publisher: Hungarian Natural History Museum, Budapest
Editor(s): Matskási, I., Peregovits, L. & Sziráki, Gy.
