Bactericera reuteri (Šulc, 1913)

Pramatarova, Monika, Malenovský, Igor & Gjonov, Ilia, 2025, Jumping plant lice (Hemiptera, Psylloidea) of Bulgaria – an annotated checklist, Biodiversity Data Journal 13, pp. e 147277-e 147277 : e147277-

Bactericera reuteri (Šulc, 1913)

Notes

Further confirmation is also needed for B. reuteri , which was recorded by Głowacka and Harizanov (1983) from conifers at high altitudes in the Rhodope Mountains. It is likely that this record concerns the closely-related, similar and recently-described B. lyrata ( Seljak et al. 2008, Seljak and Malenovský 2014) or B. harrisoni , which was erroneously described and illustrated as ' Trioza reuteri ' by Dobreanu and Manolache (1962) (see Conci and Tamanini (1985 c)). The latter two species are confirmed in this paper on the basis of recently-collected material from Bulgaria. Bactericera reuteri is distributed in central and northern Europe, Russia and Mongolia and is monophagous on Potentilla anserina L. ( Seljak et al. 2008). Potentilla anserina occurs in Bulgaria, but is restricted to the Danube Plain, with a maximum altitude of 300 m a. s. l. ( Assyov et al. 2012), which makes the occurrence of B. reuteri at high altitude of the Rhodope Mountains unlikely.