Simulium (Simulium) noelleri Friederichs, 1920

Sirin, Uemit Davut, Caliskan, Hakan & Sahin, Yalcin, 2015, Black flies (Diptera: Simuliidae) of Turkish Thrace, with a new record for Turkey, Biodiversity Data Journal 3, pp. 4834-4834 : 4834

Simulium (Simulium) noelleri Friederichs, 1920

Materials

Type status: Other material. Occurrence: lifeStage: 6 pupae, 9 larvae; Taxon: scientificName: Simulium (Simulium) noelleri Friederichs, 1920; kingdom: Animalia; phylum: Arthropoda; class: Insecta; order: Diptera; family: Simuliidae; genus: Simulium; subgenus: Simulium; scientificNameAuthorship: Friederichs, 1920; Location: continent: Europe; country: Turkey; stateProvince: Edirne; county: Meriç; locationRemarks: 71; verbatimLatitude: 41°7'27.26"N; verbatimLongitude: 26°25'32.17"E; Identification: identificationID: esoguent-th-ıd- 102; Event: eventDate: 06/01/2002

Notes

Simulium (Simulium) noelleri is a well-known simuliid, with a general preference for outlets. It is distinguished by the branching arrangement of the pupal gills (3+3+2 or 3+2+2+1). We encountered it at one locality, an outlet from a small pond. Our pupae have eight gill filaments arranged as 3+3+2, and the apotome pattern of the larval head capsule is like an ill-defined “H”, as described by Bass (1998). Although, S. noelleri is widespread in the Palaearctic, there are rwo records of it in Turkey, from the Sakarya River basin ( Sirin and Sahin 2005) and East Marmara Region ( Şirin et al. 2014).