Taeniopteryx caucasica Zhiltzova, 1981

First record of the genus Taeniopteryx from Turkey.

Material. Rize, Ovitdagı geçidi, torrent bordered with snow on the southern slope of the pass, 2600 m, 12.05.1997, 10 ♂, 10 ♀ (Vi).

Distribution and ecology. Caucasus, eastern Pontus (Rize). We found adults in May on the snow bordering a high altitude torrent (2600 m a.s.l.). Adults emerge in spring (V). Map (Fig. 76).