Meotica truncata ASSING, 2004

(Figs 94-96)

Meotica truncata ASSING, 2004b: 710 f.

Type material examined: SeeASSING (2004b).

Additional material examined: TURKEY: 1♂, Izmir, Bozdağ, 38°20'N, 28°06'E, 1300-1560 m, 21.IV.2006, leg. Brachat & Meybohm (cAss) ; 1♂, 2♀♀, Aydın, Dilek Dağı, S Güzelçamlı, 37°41'N, 27°14'E, 440 m, 28.IV.2006, leg. Brachat & Meybohm (cAss) ; 1♀, Isparta, Sultan Dağları, W Çankurtaran, 38°15'N, 31°23'E, 1550 m, 17.IV.2008, leg. Brachat & Meybohm (cAss) ; 1♂, 1♀, Kayseri, 70 km SW Kayseri, Sultansazliği National Park, 1000 m, 6.V.1978, leg. Besuchet and Löbl (cVog) .

Comment: The original description is based on eight type specimens from the Turkish province Antalya (ASSING 2004b). The species was subsequently recorded also from Mersin, Kahramanmaraş, and Niğde provinces (ASSING 2006, 2013).

Diagnosis: ♂: sternite VIII (Fig. 94) strongly transverse and with truncate or weakly concave posterior margin; median lobe of aedeagus (Fig. 95) approximately 0.25 mm long; ventral process strongly curved and apically straight (lateral view); crista apicalis broad; apical lobe of paramere blackish.

♀: sternite VIII with broadly convex posterior margin; spermatheca as in Fig. 96.

For additional illustrations see ASSING (2004a).

Distribution: Turkey (Izmir, Aydın, Antalya, Isparta, Niğde, Mersin, Kahramanmaraş, Kayseri).