New and interesting records of scorpion flies of the genus Panorpa Mecoptera: Panorpidae) from Bulgaria with a country checklist Author Dvořák, Libor Municipal Museum Mariánské Lázně, Goethovo náměstí 11, CZ- 353 01 Mariánské Lázně, Czech Republic; lib. dvorak @ seznam. cz, corresponding author Author Georgiev, Dilian Department of Ecology and Environmental Conservation, University of Plovdiv, Tzar Assen Str. 24, BG- 4000 Plovdiv, Bulgaria, email: diliangeorgiev @ abv. bg Author ., P. P. Author P. Author P. Author W Author ., P. Author P. Author P. Author . Author . text Ecologica Montenegrina 2017 2017-12-05 15 22 25 https://www.biotaxa.org/em/article/view/em.2017.15.4 journal article 10.37828/em.2017.15.4 2336-9744 12716989 Panorpa vulgaris Imhoff & Labram, 1845 N Sakar Mts. , river bank forest near Ovcharitsa River , 116 m , 42°08'09.9"N , 25°47'13.6"E , 30.4.2017 , 1 ♂ . Upper Thracian Lowland , Plovdiv city, near Maritsa River , E of Gerdzhika bridge, 42°09'10.6"N , 24°43'50.7"E , 161 m , 18.5.2017 , 1 ♂ . Sarnena Gora Mts. , N of Stara Zagora , along Bedechka River , flood forest ( Fig. 2 ), among Petasites , 227 m , 42°27'06.9"N , 25°37'54.8"E , 16.5.2017 , 1 ♀ . Sakar Mts. , E of Svilengrad town , flood forest near river, 90 m , 41°47'24.8"N , 26°14'53.5"E , 27.5.2017 , 1 ♀ . Black Sea coast, South of Tsarevo town, near Lisovo Dere River , 8 m , 42°09'17.2" N , 27°51'14.4" E , 27.6.2017 , 1 ♀ . Species of western, central, and northern Europe. Devetak (1998) reported P. vulgaris as the rarest Panorpa species. No record south of Slovenia was known. Our material represents the first records of P. vulgaris from Bulgaria (see Fig. 1 for distribution) and from the Balkans except its northernmost hook in Slovenia . It is interesting that P. vulgaris was recorded in Bulgaria in the lowest altitudes only, the maximum heigth is 227 m a.s.l. in Stara Zagora vicinity. Figure 2. Flood forest along Bedechka River, Sarnena Gora Mts., locality of Panorpa hybrida MacLachlan, 1882 and Panorpa vulgaris Imhoff & Labram, 1845 . Photo: Dilian Georgiev. Checklist of Bulgarian taxa of the genus Panorpa All species reliably confirmed for Bulgarian fauna are listed in the following checklist. The species marked with an asterisk (*) are published after 2010 for the first time for Bulgaria . Panorpa alpina Rambur, 1842 Panorpa communis Linnaeus, 1758 Panorpa germanica germanica Linnaeus, 1758 Panorpa germanica rumelica Lauterbach, 1972 Panorpa hybrida MacLachlan, 1882 * Panorpa schweigeri Willmann, 1975 * Panorpa thrakica Willmann, 1976 * Panorpa vulgaris Imhoff & Labram, 1845 In this paper we report a new Panorpa species for the fauna of Bulgaria , P. vulgaris . It is the third new country record from this Mecoptera genus published during last four years. According to the present knowledge, Bulgaria Panorpa checklist contains seven species. Acknowledgements. Authors are grateful to Ms Reni Kotseva for the collection of a specimen of Panorpa germanica rumelica from the area of Mazalat. The trips of D. Georgiev in South Bulgaria were partly financed by the project of Plovdiv University “Evaluation of the anthropogenic stress on the wetlands of South Bulgaria ”, No. FP17-BF-001.