Synopsis of the Psychodidae (Diptera) fauna of Bulgaria Author Ježek, Jan Department of Entomology, National Museum, Cirkusová 1740, CZ - 193 00 Praha 9 - Horní Počernice, Czech Republic. Department of Ecology, Faculty of Humanities and Natural Sciences, University of Prešov, 17. novembra 1, SK - 081 16 Prešov, Slovakia. & jan. jezek @ o 2 active. cz; Author Manko, Peter peter. manko @ unipo. sk; http: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0003 - 1862 - 9117 peter.manko@unipo.sk Author Oboňa, Jozef peter. manko @ unipo. sk; http: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0003 - 1862 - 9117 peter.manko@unipo.sk text Zootaxa 2020 2020-11-10 4877 2 201 240 journal article 7943 10.11646/zootaxa.4877.2.1 24100a7d-89d7-4618-8578-5716026788a1 1175-5326 4424057 FF3BBB51-6C9C-412B-B316-61C0E67E5001 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 ).