Corixa affinis Leach, 1817

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 : 16

Corixa affinis Leach, 1817

Material examined. EUROPEAN TURKEY: Edirne province: Değirmenyeni village (loc. 7), 1 ♂; Süleoğlu (stream under dam) (loc. 8), 7 ♂♂ 3 ♀♀; Keramettin Barajı [dam] (loc. 12), 3 ♂♂ 8 ♀♀; Güllapoğlu Deresi [stream] (loc. 11), 2 ♀♀; Kemalköy Göleti [pond] (loc. 14), 1 ♂ 1 ♀; Gölbaba [lake] (loc. 18), 1 ♂; near Musabeyli Göleti [pond] (loc. 20), 1 ♂, M. Fent det. ( TUET) ; Edirne env. (N 41°37' E 26°37'), flooded meadow, drain, 225 m a.s.l., 16.vi.2001, 2 ♂♂, M. Fikáček, J. Hájek & J. Straka lgt., P. Kment det. ( NMPC) . Kırklareli province: Kofçaz 10 km under brook (loc. 4), 2 ♀♀, M. Fent det. ( TUET) . ASIAN TURKEY: Aydın province: Aydın, 15.vi.1968, 1 ♂ 1 ♀, Ardö lgt., P. Kment det. ( NMPC) . Erzincan province: ca. 40 km SE of Erzincan, near Çağlayan , Bursa village env., 10.–14.vii.1997, 1 ♀, P. Průdek & M. Říha lgt., P. Kment det. ( ZJPC) . Osmaniye province: Haruniye [= Düziçi], vi.1953, 1 ♀, Dr. H. Kumerloeve lgt., P. Kment det. ( NMPC) .

European Turkey. Jansson (1995), Önder et al. (2006), Aukema (2009); this paper. First exact records from Turkish Thrace.

Asian Turkey. Oshanin (1910, as Macrocorisa affinis ), Fahringer (1922), Poisson (1925, as Corisa affinis ), Gadeau de Kerville (1939, as C. affinis affinis ), Hoberlandt (1952a, revised!), Seidenstücker (1959), Wagner (1966), Önder & Adıgüzel (1979), Jansson (1986a, in map as revised; 1995), Kıyak et al. (2004, 2007a), Balık et al. (2006), Önder et al. (2006), Dursun (2011); this paper.

Turkey (not distinguished). Stichel (1955, C. affinis affinis ), Nieser & Moubayed (1985), Kıyak & Özsaraç (2001), Kanyukova (2006).

General distribution. Distributed in most of European countries (mostly along sea coasts and in Pannonian lowland in Central Europe), north Africa, Cyprus, Anatolia, Transcaucasia, Lebanon, Israel, Jordan, Syria, Yemen, Iraq, Iran, Central Asia, and India ( Nieser & Moubayed 1985; Jansson 1986a, 1995; Protić 1998; Katbeh et al. 2000; Gogala 2003; Damgaard 2008d).

Comment. 15 ♀♀ from locality ‘Konya’, identified as C. affinis by Hoberlandt (1952a) belong to C. jakowleffi , while 1 ♀ from ‘Kızılviran’ identified as C. panzeri by Hoberlandt (1952a) is in fact C. affinis (P. Kment revid.).

Identification. Jansson (1986a), Linnavuori & Hosseini (2000), Kanyukova (2006).