Eledona hellenica Reitter, 1885

Kakiopoulos, G. & Demetriou, J., 2022, First records of Eledonoprius serrifrons (Reitter, 1890) from Greece and Eledona hellenica Reitter, 1885 from Bulgaria (Coleoptera: Tenebrionidae): a contribution to the Bolitophagini of southern Balkan Peninsula with a special reference to Greece, Caucasian Entomological Bulletin 18 (1), pp. 15-18 : 16

Eledona hellenica Reitter, 1885

Material and observations. 1 dead specimen, Greece, Central Greece, Euboea Island , Rouklia, Ochi Mt., 38.0°N / 24.4°E, 550 m , on fungus growing on the bark of Platanus orientalis, date unknown (G. Kakiopoulos); 4 specimens, Greece, Epirus, Ioannina, Vrosina , 39.64°N / 20.51°E, 600 m, on fungus growing on the bark of Quercus sp., 5.01.1998 (G.Kakiopoulos) ; 2♂ (private collection of H. Brustel, Toulouse, France), Greece, Central Greece, Euboea Island, Rouklia , Ochi Mt. , 38.0°N / 24.4°E, 500 m, on fungus growing on the bark of Quercus sp., 19.11.2011 (G. Kakiopoulos) ; 6 specimens, Bulgaria, Malko Tarnovo, near Grammatikovo vill., 42.0°N / 27.6°E, and more than 50 individuals observed on large fungus (45 cm in diameter) growing on the bark of Quercus sp., 2.07.2004 (G. Kakiopoulos) .

Note. New record for Bulgaria.