Hydrochus megaphallus Berge Henegouwen,, 1988

Darılmaz, Mustafa C. & Kıyak, Suat, 2008, An Annotated checklist and key to the Turkish Elongated Water Scavenger Beetles (Coleoptera: Hydrochidae), Baltic Journal of Coleopterology 8 (2), pp. 149-154 : 151

5. Hydrochus megaphallus Berge Henegouwen,

1988

Records in Turkey (Fig 2): Istanbul ( Berge Henegouwen 1988).

Range: Europe: Austria, Belgium, Byelorussia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Great Britain, Germany, Hungary, The Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Romania, Sweden, Turkey ( Hansen 2004).

Remarks: This species is recorded only one time recorded by Berge Henegouwen (1988) to Turkish fauna. Probably it distributed in Northwest Turkey.

Chorotype: This species has the Centraleuropean chorotype.

Range: Europe: Austria, Belgium, Byelorussia, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Great Britain, Germany, Hungary, Ireland, Latvia, Lithuania, Norway, Poland, Russia (Central European Territory, North European Territory), Sweden, “ Czechoslovakia ” ( Hansen 2004).

Remarks: This species is recorded first time by Incekara et al. (2004) to Turkish fauna. Probably it rather widely distributed in Turkey.

Chorotype: This species has the Centraleuropean chorotype.

Fig. 1-2. Aedeagophore. (1), H. elongatus ; (2), H. flavipennis .