Jumping plant lice (Hemiptera, Psylloidea) of Bulgaria – an annotated checklist

We dedicate this study to the memory of our late dear friend, colleague and teacher Dr Pavel Lauterer, who in the course of his career laid the foundation for this work through his fruitful collections of psyllids in Bulgaria and his taxonomic studies, for which we are deeply grateful. We also thank Dr Petr Kment for the opportunity to study the material in the National Museum of the Czech Republic in Prague and Ass. prof. Anita Tosheva, Dr Georgi Kunev (both from the Faculty of Biology, Sofia University) and Dr Jiří Danihelka (Faculty of Science, Masaryk University, Brno) for the identification of voucher specimens of the host plants. Last but not least, we would like to thank PD Dr Daniel Burckhardt (Naturhistorisches Museum, Basel, Switzerland), Dr David Ouvrard (ANSES Laboratoire de la santé des végétaux, Montpellier, France) and Dr hab. Jowita Drohojowska (Institute of Biology, Biotechnology and Environmental Protection, University of Silesia, Poland) for their careful review and valuable suggestions for improving the manuscript.

This study was financially supported by the Scientific Research Fund of Sofia University “St. Kliment Ohridski”, grant number 80-10-5/2024. Monika Pramatarova was supported by the Bulgarian Ministry of Education and Science under the National Research Programme “Young scientists and postdoctoral fellows – 2” approved by DCM 206/07.04.2022. Part of the work was carried out during her stay at the Faculty of Science at Masaryk University in Brno, supported by the Erasmus+ programme of the European Union. Igor Malenovský was partially supported by the grant of the Moravian Museum in Brno from the Ministry of Culture of the Czech Republic under its long-term conceptual development programme for research institutions (ref. MK000094862).