Jurinea tzar-ferdinandii Davidov

This species which was known as an endemic for eastern Bulgaria was recently discovered in southern Dobrudja from Romania (Cotu Vaii in Valea Mare, Constanta county).

Pictures taken from outside Romania, in Bulgaria in dry xeric steppe grasslands north of Nevsha village on Taushan Tepe hill, August 2012.

dr. Alexandru Badarau, alexandru@transsilvanica.ne