Notonecta (Notonecta) glauca glauca 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 : 28

Notonecta (Notonecta) glauca glauca Linnaeus, 1758

( Figs. 13–18 )

Material examined. EUROPEAN TURKEY: Kırklareli province: Babaeski—Lahana village (loc. 9), 2 ♂♂ 2 ♀♀; near Hamam Gölü [lake] (loc. 26), 1 ♀, M. Fent det. ( TUET) . ASIAN TURKEY: Afyon province: İshaklı [= Sultandağı], 8.ix.1947, 1 ♂ 1 ♀ ( Fig. 13 ), Exp. N. Mus. ČSR lgt., P. Kment det. ( NMPC) . Bolu province: Akçaalan env., valley under Abant Gölü [lake], small pool, ca. 1300 m a.s.l., 5.v.2004, 1 spec. ( Fig. 14 ), P. Kment lgt. & det. ( NMPC) . Çankırı / Kastamonu provinces: Ilgaz Dagh, Paphlag. [= Ilgaz Dağları], no date, 2 ♂♂ 4 ♀♀ ( Figs. 15–17 ), Staněk lgt., P. Kment det. ( NMPC) . Sivas province: Zara env., Tödürge Gölü [lake] (N 39°53' E 37°37'), swamp along the road to university station, 27.vi.2002, 1 ♀ ( Fig. 18 ), P. Kment lgt. & det. ( NMPC) .

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

Asian Turkey. Oshanin (1910, including var. marmorea , furcata , maculata ), Fahringer (1922, as N. glauca ), Poisson (1925, as N. glauca ), Hoberlandt (1952a, as N. glauca , revised!), Zincirci (1976), Polhemus (1995e), Önder et al. (2006), Topkara et al. (2009), Dursun (2011); this paper.

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

General distribution. Distributed in most of European countries, Morocco, Tunisia, Egypt, and Asia from Cyprus and Anatolia to West Siberia (Transbaikalia), north-western China, and Tajikistan ( Polhemus 1995e, Gheit 1995, Carapezza 1997, Protić 1998, Linnavuori & Hosseini 2000, Kanyukova 2006).

Comment. The specimens identified as N. glauca hybrida by Hoberlandt (1952a) from ‘Suluhan’ belong in fact to N. maculata , and the one ♀ from ‘Mollafeneri’ to N. meridionalis (P. Kment revised.). Concerning the subspecies identity of the Notonecta described by Zincirci (1976), we assume that the hemelytra colouration agrees rather with nominotypical N. glauca glauca (also E.V. Kanyukova, pers. comm.). See also Comment under N. glauca poissoni .

Identification. Kanyukova (1973, 2006), Nieser et al. (1994), Linnavuori & Hosseini (2000), Soós et al. (2009). Identification of some of the Anatolian specimens belonging to the complex of N. glauca glauca , N. glauca poissoni , N. meridionalis , and N. obliqua is especially difficult and the combination of hemelytra colouration and genitalic characters must be investigated. The use of cytological and molecular genetic methods in the future may help to investigate the relationships of the included taxa.

Figures

FIGURES 13–21. Variation of hemelytral colouration. 13–18—Notonecta glauca glauca Linnaeus, 1758 (13—Afyon province: İshaklı, 14—Bolu province: Abant Gölü env., 15–17—Çankırı/Kastamonu provinces: Ilgaz Dağları, 18—Sivas province: Tödürge Gölü); 19–21—Notonecta glauca poissoni Hungerford, 1934 (19–20—Sivas province: Tödürge Gölü); 21—Kırşehir province: Çağırgan).