Simulium (Simulium) reptans (Linnaeus, 1758)

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) reptans (Linnaeus, 1758)

Materials

Type status: Other material. Occurrence: lifeStage: 6 pupae, 5 larvae / 19 pupae, 5 larvae; Taxon: scientificName: Simulium (Simulium) reptans (Linnaeus, 1758); kingdom: Animalia; phylum: Arthropoda; class: Insecta; order: Diptera; family: Simuliidae; genus: Simulium; subgenus: Simulium; scientificNameAuthorship: (Linnaeus, 1758); Location: continent: Europe; country: Turkey; stateProvince: Kırklareli; county: İğneada; locationRemarks: 36; verbatimLatitude: 41°49'16.69"N; verbatimLongitude: 27°57'8.53"E; Identification: identificationID: esoguent-th-ıd- 128; Event: eventDate: 26.05.2002 / 22.04.2005 Type status: Other material. Occurrence: lifeStage: 7 pupae, 11 larvae / 1 pupae; Taxon: scientificName: Simulium (Simulium) reptans (Linnaeus, 1758); kingdom: Animalia; phylum: Arthropoda; class: Insecta; order: Diptera; family: Simuliidae; genus: Simulium; subgenus: Simulium; scientificNameAuthorship: (Linnaeus, 1758); Location: continent: Europe; country: Turkey; stateProvince: Kırklareli; county: Pınarhisar; locationRemarks: 38; verbatimLatitude: 41°40'11.14"N; verbatimLongitude: 27°26'32.75"E; Identification: identificationID: esoguent-th-ıd- 129; Event: eventDate: 07/08/2003 Type status: Other material. Occurrence: lifeStage: 5 pupae, 3 larvae; Taxon: scientificName: Simulium (Simulium) reptans (Linnaeus, 1758); kingdom: Animalia; phylum: Arthropoda; class: Insecta; order: Diptera; family: Simuliidae; genus: Simulium; subgenus: Simulium; scientificNameAuthorship: (Linnaeus, 1758); Location: continent: Europe; country: Turkey; stateProvince: Kırklareli; county: Merkez; locationRemarks: 46; verbatimLatitude: 41°49'48.43"N; verbatimLongitude: 27°10'42.01"E; Identification: identificationID: esoguent-th-ıd- 130; Event: eventDate: 04/23/2005 Type status: Other material. Occurrence: lifeStage: 8 pupae, 7 larvae; Taxon: scientificName: Simulium (Simulium) reptans (Linnaeus, 1758); kingdom: Animalia; phylum: Arthropoda; class: Insecta; order: Diptera; family: Simuliidae; genus: Simulium; subgenus: Simulium; scientificNameAuthorship: (Linnaeus, 1758); Location: continent: Europe; country: Turkey; stateProvince: Edirne; county: Lalapaşa; locationRemarks: 53; verbatimLatitude: 41°58'26.47"N; verbatimLongitude: 27°0'28.78"E; Identification: identificationID: esoguent-th-ıd- 131; Event: eventDate: 05/28/2002 Type status: Other material. Occurrence: lifeStage: 7 pupae, 8 larvae; Taxon: scientificName: Simulium (Simulium) reptans (Linnaeus, 1758); kingdom: Animalia; phylum: Arthropoda; class: Insecta; order: Diptera; family: Simuliidae; genus: Simulium; subgenus: Simulium; scientificNameAuthorship: (Linnaeus, 1758); Location: continent: Europe; country: Turkey; stateProvince: Edirne; county: Hatipköy; locationRemarks: 63; verbatimLatitude: 41°48'14.99"N; verbatimLongitude: 26°33'13.31"E; Identification: identificationID: esoguent-th-ıd- 132; Event: eventDate: 05/30/2002

Notes

Simulium reptans is one of the most common black flies in the Palaearctic, distributed from China to Portugal and from Lapland to Italy. It is a human- and cattle-biting species ( Day et al. 2008). In Turkey, this species were reported from the Büyük Menderes river basin in western Anatolia ( Kazancı and Ertunç 2008 ile and the va districts of thestanbul ( Şirin et al. 2014). Simulium reptans is similar to Simulium galeratum Edwards, especially in the larval stages, and some authors (e.g. Crosskey and Howard 2004) regarded galeratum as a synonym of reptans. However, Day et al. (2008) and Bernotiene and Stunzėnas (2009) showed, by analyzing mitochondrial cytochrome c oxidase 1 gene sequences, that S. galeratum is a distinct species. According to Bass (1998), Knoz (1965) and Jedlićka et al. (2004), the most distinctive pupal character between S. reptans and S. galeratum is the conformation and distribution of microtubercles on the cuticle of the head and thorax; in S. galeratum , the microtubercles are sparse and pointed, but dense in S. reptans , they are dense and rounded. In our study, the pupae have dense, rounded microtubercles. However, the head capsule pigmentation of our larvae conforms to that of S. reptans , as given by Bass (1998). We did not observe variation among specimens from the four localities where we collected the species.