Blagoy Gruev
15 April 2006 ·
volume 17 · pp. 51–79 ·
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Abstract: The paper reviews the diversity of leaf beetles of Pirin Mts, South Bulgaria. Two-hundred and eighty nine (sub)species are hitherto registered on the territory of the mountain (of them 38 are new records), which counts to approx. 57 % of the Bulgarian chrysomelid fauna. Of them, six species (Clytra valeriana tetrastigma, Luperus graecus, Gonioctena pallida reticulata, Oreina speciosissima drenskii, O. virgulata ljubetensis, Aphthona parnassicola) are Balkan endemics, and one (Longitarsus behnei) is local endemic. The dominant zoogeographical complexes are: Siberian (150 taxa), and European (113 taxa).