New Records of Gerromorpha and Nepomorpha (Hemiptera: Heteroptera) Fauna of Turkey

Abstract

This study was performed in the period of 2013-2014 in various freshwater habitats ranging from lakes, dam lakes, rivers, streams, irrigation channels and trough in Turkish Thrace in order to determine the Gerromorpha and Nepomorpha fauna of the city. Hydrometra gracilenta Horváth, 1899 (Hydrometridae) is new record for the fauna of Turkey, Limnoporus rufoscutellatus (Latreille, 1807) (Gerridae), Mesovelia furcata Mulsant and Rey, 1852 and Mesovelia vittigera Horváth, 1895 (Mesoveliidae) and Microvelia (Microvelia) reticulata (Burmeister, 1835) (Veliidae) are new records for fauna of Turkish Thrace Region. First exact localities are provided for three species, (Anisops sardeus sardeus Herrich-Schäffer, 1849, Hesperocorixa linnaei (Fieber, 1848) and Sigara mayri (Fieber, 1860)) whose presence in Turkish Thrace was formerly reported without any locality details.