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Journal of Entomology and Zoology Studies 2018; 6(1): 1225-1231
E-ISSN: 2320-7078
P-ISSN: 2349-6800
JEZS 2018; 6(1): 1225-1231
© 2018 JEZS
Received: 20-11-2017
Accepted: 21-12-2017
Barış Çerçi
Köknar 4, Tarçın Street,
Koru Neighborhood Ardıçlı
Houses, Esenyurt, İstanbul,
Turkey
İnanç Özgen
Fırat University, Engineering
Faculty, Bioengineering
Department, Elazığ, Turkey
Paride Dioli
Museo di Storia Naturale Sezione
di Entomologia Corso Venezia
55- Milano- Italia
Correspondence
Barış Çerçi
Köknar 4, Tarçın Street,
Koru Neighborhood Ardıçlı
Houses, Esenyurt, İstanbul,
Turkey
Additional faunıstıc notes on heteroptera
(HemIptera: Insecta) in East AnatolIa (Turkey)
Barış Çerçi, İnanç Özgen and Paride Dioli
Abstract
The bugs Heteroptera collected in seven provinces of the East Anatolia (Bingöl, Bitlis, Elazığ, Erzincan,
Malatya, Muş and Tunceli) were listed in the present study. It was based on a short but intensive
collecting trip made in April-September 2014-2016. Eighty species were reported, many firstly recorded
for collecting sites. From these species, 1 species belonging to each of the Ochteridae, Nabidae, Tingidae,
Artheneidae, Blissidae, Heterogastridae families, 10 species belonging to Miridae family, 7 species
belonging to Reduviidae family, 6 species belonging to Coreidae family, 10 species belonging to
Rhopalidae family, 2 species belonging to each of the Alydidae, Berytidae, Geocoridae, Cydinidae and
Scutelleridae families, 17 species belonging to Lygaeidae family, 11 species belonging to Pentatomidae
family and 3 species belonging to Pyrrhocoridae family were obtained. The most of these species are new
record for these locations.
Keywords: Hemiptera, heteroptera, fauna, East Anatolia, turkey, new regional record
1. Introduction
Heteroptera species of the Eastern Turkey are still little known. The Heteroptera fauna of
eastern part of Turkey is still little known compared to the one of the other parts of Anatolia.
Önder et al.
[1]
listed a total of 1526 heteropteran species/subspecies for the whole Turkey, in
which they have included eastern species The last work of Matocq and Özgen
[2]
, Gözüaçık et
al.
[37]
, Dursun and Fent,
[3]
, Fent et al.
[4]
, Yıldırım et al,
[5]
, Matocq et al.
[6]
, Yazıcı et al
[7, 8,
45]
, Çerçi and Koçak,
[9]
; gave an good review of the studies realized in this area. The bugs
specimens were collected around Bitlis, Bingöl, Elazığ, Erzincan, Malatya, Muş and Tunceli
country (Eastern Turkey), in different localities.
2. Materials and Methods
The bugs were mainly collected by hand and visual sampling. Specimens were caught by
sweep-netting the herbaceous vegetation, or collected by beating the branches of trees and
shrubs over a white net. Studies were carried between years 2013-2017 in different localities
(Bitlis, Bingöl, Elazığ, Erzincan, Malatya, Muş and Tunceli country (Eastern Turkey).
The species were identified and analyzed their geographic distribution starting from the main
historical work on the Heteroptera of Turkey
[47]
which gave impetus to all the following ones.
We have also studied the volumes containing the classification keys of Tingidae
[48]
, Berytidae
[49]
, Nabidae
[50]
, Lygaeoidea with the allied families
[51, 52, 53]
, Pentatomidae
[54, 55, 56, 67]
and
Ochteridae
[57]
. For Miridae we consulted three volumes concerning the fauna of the
Mediterranean and surrounding Areas
[58]
and the supplement
[59]
. For Reduviidae, reference
was made to the volume of the Faune de France
[60]
, for Coreoidea (Coreidae, Rhopalidae,
Alydidae), Pyrrhocoridae, Stenocephalidae
[61]
. General distribution of the species is presented
according to the Catalogue of the Heteroptera of the Palaearctic Region in six volumes
[62, 63, 64,
65, 66, 67]
. Finally, specimens preserved into the collections of the Natural History Museum in
Milan (Italy) and the Authors (Fırat University, Bioengineering Department and First author
private collection (İstanbul), were consulted.
3. Results and Discussion
Family: Ochteridae
Ochterus marginatus marginatus (Latreille, 1804).
Material examined: Elazığ, Palu, Baltaşı village, 20.10.2017. 2 exs, leg. Ozgen.
Distribution in Turkey: Adana, Elazığ, Niğde
[1, 6, 46]