Gerris (Gerris) maculatus Tamanini, 1946

Fent, Meral, Kment, Petr, Çamur-Elipek, Belgin & Kirgiz, Timur, 2011, Annotated catalogue of Enicocephalomorpha, Dipsocoromorpha, Nepomorpha, Gerromorpha, and Leptopodomorpha (Hemiptera: Heteroptera) of Turkey, with new records 2856, Zootaxa 2856 (1), pp. 1-84 : 46-47

Gerris (Gerris) maculatus Tamanini, 1946

= Gerris gibbifer var. maculata Tamanini, 1946

= Gerris italicus Wagner, 1955

Material examined. EUROPEAN TURKEY: Edirne province: Suakacağı village (loc. 35), 3 ♂♂ 2 ♀♀, M. Fent det. ( TUET). Tekirdağ province: Kınalı Deresi [stream] (loc. 6), 3 ♀♀, M. Fent det. ( TUET). ASIAN TURKEY:

Antalya province: Tekirova env., near antique Phaselis , 3.–4.v.1991, 1 ♂ (mi), Z. Jindra lgt., P. Kment det. ( ZJPC) . Erzincan province: Çağlayan (N 39°36' E 39°42'), valley above waterfall, brook, 23.vi.2002, 5 ♂♂ 3 ♀♀ (ma), P. Kment lgt. & det. ( NMPC) . Hatay province: Hatay env., Amik Gölü [lake] [drained in the period 1940s–1970s], 18.v.1953, 1 ♂ 3 ♀♀ (ma), Dr. H. Kumerloeve lgt., P. Kment det. ( NMPC) ; İskenderun , 9.–14.vi.1952, 1 ♂ 1 ♀ (ma), G. Seidenstücker lgt. & det. as G. italicus, P. Kment revid. ( NMPC) . Sivas province: Zara env., Demiryurt (N 39°50'35.1" E 37°36'47.5"), spring by river above the village, 26.vi.2002, 1 ♀ (ma), P. Kment lgt. & det. ( NMPC) ; Zara env., Tödürge Gölü [lake] (N 39°53' E 37°37'), swamp along the road to university station, 27.vi.2002, 2 ♂♂ (br), P. Kment lgt. & det. ( NMPC) . Tunceli province: Tunceli (N 39°06' E 39°33'), Munzur Nehri [river] valley, oxbow lake near bridge, 22.vi.2002, 1 ♂ 2 ♀♀ (ma), P. Kment lgt. & det. ( NMPC) .

European Turkey. Hoberlandt (1952a, as G. gibbifer , misidentification; revised!), Josifov (1986a), Andersen (1995), Önder et al. (2006, as G. gibbifer , misidentification), Aukema (2009); this paper.

Asian Turkey. Horváth (1919, as G. gibbifer , misidentification), Poisson (1925, as G. gibbifer and G. gibbifer f. flaviventris, misidentification), Gadeau de Kerville (1939, as G. gibbifer and G. gibbifer f. flaviventris, misidentification), Seidenstücker (1957, as G. italicus ), Andersen (1995), Önder et al. (2006, as both G. maculatus and G. gibbifer , misidentification), Kıyak et al. (2007b, 2008, as G.gibbifer , misidentification), Salur & Mesci (2009, as G. gibbifer , misidentification).

Turkey (not distinguished). Nieser & Moubayed (1985, as G. gibbifer , misidentification), Kıyak & Özsaraç (2001).

General distribution. Southern Europe from France and Italy to Greece and Ukraine; Algeria, Tunisia; Anatolia, Georgia, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Iran, and Israel ( Andersen 1995, Strpić 1997).

Comment. Andersen (1995): ‘Previous records of Gerris gibbifer from SE Europe, N Africa, andt the Middle East probably apply to Gerris maculatus .’

Identification. Seidenstücker (1957, as G. italicus ), Tamanini (1979), Kanyukova (1982, 2006), Andersen (1994), Linnavuori (1998), Linnavuori & Hosseini (2000).