Bubopsis hamata Klug, 1834 Figs 15, 16

Ascalaphus hamatus Klug, 1834 - (Odescr), Walker 1853 (Rdescr, Tax, Dist), Hagen 1863 (Dist), 1866 (Tax), Navás 1910 (Dist).

Bubo hamatus (Klug, 1834) - Rambur 1842 (Tax, Rdescr, Dist), Hagen 1860 (Tax, Comb), McLachlan 1871 (Tax), Klapálek 1906 (Dist).

Ascalaphus forcipatus Eversmann, 1850 - (Odescr), Hagen 1866 (Tax), McLachlan 1873 (Tax), Van der Weele 1909b (Syn).

Bubopsis hamatus (Klug, 1834) - Van der Weele 1909b (Mon), Navás 1911 (Dist), 1912b (Mon), 1925b (Dist), 1926b (Dist), Morton 1925 (Dist), Alexandrov-Martynov 1926 (Dist), Bodenheimer 1937 (Dist), Kimmins 1938 (List), Aspöck U. et al. 1979 (Tax, Dist), Şengonca 1979 (Chlist), Hölzel 1983 (Tax, Dist), 1998 (Dist), 2004 (Dist), Aspöck, H.1992 (Dist), Luppova 1973 (Dist), 1987 (Dist), Aspöck H. and Hölzel 1996 (Dist), Sziráki 1998 (Chlist), 2000 (Dist), Howarth and Aspinall 2002 (Dist), Koçak and Kemal 2002 (Dist), Mirmoayedi 2002 (Dist), Whittington 2002 (Dist), Canbulat and Kiyak 2005 (Dist), Ari et al. 2008 (Dist), El-Hamouly and Hassan 2011 (Dist), Ilyina et al. 2013 (Dist), Krivokhatsky et al. 2015 (Dist).

Material examined.

1♂, Dana RSCN Reserve, 30.67809N, 35.5988E, 850 m a.s.l., 4.vi.2011, leg. C. Monnerat, CCM (Fig. 15).

Distribution.

Its distribution likely extends from northeastern Africa (Egypt) to West Asia (Iran, Iraq, Syria, Israel, Jordan, Saudi Arabia) ( Hölzel 2004). In Turkey, observations suggest that this species is only found in the eastern part of the country (Dobosz and Ábrahám 2007). It is also known from the Caucasus (Azerbaijan, Georgia) and Kopet Dag Mountains (Turkmenistan, Kyrgyzstan). The type locality is in Syria (Van der Weele 1909).

Comments.

In Jordan, the specimen found in Dana (Fig. 16) was sitting on a bush of Retama raetam in the late afternoon (17:25 UTC) on a dry, rocky slope. The area has a quick vegetation transition from Mediterranean to Irano-Turanian.