Anisops debilis canariensis Noualhier, 1893 (Notonectidae)

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 : 61

Anisops debilis canariensis Noualhier, 1893 (Notonectidae)

Asian Turkey. Kıyak et al. (2006).

General distribution. Canary Islands, Madeira, Morocco, Cape Verde Islands, Ghana (Polhemus 1995). The previous record from Greece (Corfu Island) by Lindberg (1922b) is considered a misidentification ( Lansbury 1964: 108, Polhemus 1995).

Comment. Kıyak et al. (2006) published a record of A. debilis canariensis from Alanya province. Considering the nearest distribution of this subspecies in Morocco, this is most probably a case of misidentification. The record may refer to A. sardea or A. debilis perplexus , but in southern Turkey we cannot exclude the presence of additional species distributed in adjacent countries: A. crinitus Brooks, 1951 ( Greece: Corfu, Iraq, Iran) and A. varius Fieber, 1851 ( Israel, Syria) ( Polhemus 1995e).

Identification. Brooks (1951), Lansbury (1964), Nieser et al. (1994).