@article {239,
	title = {First records of Hierodula transcaucasica Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1878 (Mantodea: Mantidae) in the Balkan peninsula},
	journal = {Acta Zoologica Bulgarica},
	volume = {71},
	year = {2019},
	pages = {297-300},
	abstract = {<p>Hierodula transcaucasica Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1878 is a mantid native to the Caucasus and southern and western Asia. Here we present the first records of the species for the Balkans represented by findings of the species in Northern Greece in two localities (Thasos in 2015 and Charopo in 2017) and in Bulgaria in 2017. These recent findings implicate the potential of the species to colonize larger area of the Balkan Peninsula. The adaptability of H. transcaucasica to different environments and ecological corridors may facilitate the spread of this species in the Balkans and other Euro-Mediterranean countries. The key to the species of the subfamily Mantinae of the Mediterranean Basin is provided.</p>
},
	keywords = {Balkan Peninsula, Europe, expansion, mantid species},
	author = {Romanowski, J. and Battiston, R. and Hristov, G.}
}
@article {78,
	title = {Harmonia axyridis (Pallas, 1773) (Coleoptera: Coccinellidae) and its parasite in south-western Bulgaria and northern Greece},
	journal = {BioInvasions Records},
	volume = {6},
	year = {2017},
	pages = {307-310},
	abstract = {<p>Samples of the invasive harlequin ladybird (Harmonia axyridis) were collected in June 2017 in four localities in western Bulgaria and three localities in northern Greece. Established (reproducing) populations of H. axyridis were found in each of the surveyed localities and were commonly infected with a fungal ectoparasite, Hesperomyces virescens (Ascomycota: Laboulbeniales). This parasite was recorded on 33\% and 22\% of the collected old-generation H. axyridis males and females, respectively. Our findings represent the first records of established H. axyridis populations for Greece and the first records of H. virescens for Bulgaria.</p>
},
	keywords = {Balkan Peninsula, harlequin ladybird, Hesperomyces virescens, range expansion},
	doi = {http://dx.doi.org/10.3391/bir.2017.6.4.02},
	author = {Ceryngier, P. and Romanowski, J.}
}
