Ranatra (Ranatra) linearis (Linnaeus, 1758)

Fent, Meral, Kment, Petr, Çamur-Elipek, Belgin & Kirgiz, Timur, 2011, Annotated catalogue of Enicocephalomorpha, Dipsocoromorpha, Nepomorpha, Gerromorpha, and Leptopodomorpha (Hemiptera: Heteroptera) of Turkey, with new records 2856, Zootaxa 2856 (1), pp. 1-84 : 11

Ranatra (Ranatra) linearis (Linnaeus, 1758)

Material examined. EUROPEAN TURKEY: Edirne province: Süleoğlu (loc. 8), 1 ♀ ; Enez—Gala Gölü [lake] (loc. 10), 1 ♀ ; Güllapoğlu Deresi [stream] (loc. 11), 1 ♀, M. Fent det. ( TUET) . Kırklareli province: Babaeski— Lahana village (loc. 9), 3 ♂♂ 1 ♀, M. Fent det. ( TUET) . İstanbul province: Büyükçekmece (Tepecik) Gölü [lake] (loc. 25), 1 ♀, M. Fent det. ( TUET) .

European Turkey. Josifov (1986a), Polhemus (1995a), Aukema (2009); this paper. First exact records from Turkish Thrace.

Asian Turkey. Lindberg (1922b), Hoberlandt (1952a, revised!), Özesmi & Önder (1988), Polhemus (1995a), Bat et al. (2000), Kıyak et al. (2004), Önder et al. (2006), Kıyak et al. (2007a), Topkara et al. (2009), Dursun (2011).

Turkey (not distinguished). Stichel (1955), Nieser & Moubayed (1985), Kıyak & Özsaraç (2001).

General distribution. Palaearctic Region, reaching from Great Britain and Morocco to Iran, Central Asia, northwestern China (Xinjiang), and East Siberia (east to Altai Mts. and Yenisey river) ( Polhemus 1995 a, Protić 1998, Linnavuori & Hosseini 2000, Chen et al. 2004, Coulianos 2005, Kanyukova 2006).

Identification. Stichel (1955), Poisson (1957), Nieser (1972), Tamanini (1979), Kanyukova (1989, 2006), Nieser et al. (1994), Linnavuori & Hosseini (2000).