Hebrus (Hebrus) pilipes Kanyukova, 1997

Kment, Petr & Jindra, Zdeněk, 2005, New and interesting records of true bugs (Heteroptera) from Turkey, southeastern Europe, Near and Middle East, Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae 45, pp. 3-16 : 6

Hebrus (Hebrus) pilipes Kanyukova, 1997

Material examined. TURKEY centr.: KONYA province, K i z i lviran (= K i z i lören), 2.ix.1947, 2 ♁♁ 9 ♀♀, Exp. N. Mus. ČSR lgt., L. Hoberlandt 1958 det. as H. pusillus, P. Kment revid. ( NMPC). SİVAS province, Demiryurt (39°52′N 37°37′E), Tödürge Gölü lake , swamps along the road to the university camp, 1308 m a.s.l., 27.vi.2002, 1 ♀, P. Kment lgt. et det. ( PKPC) ; ditto, 16.v.2005, 1 ♁, P. Kment lgt. & det. ( JDCD). TURKEY mer.: ANTALYA province, Beldibi near Kemer, Bey Da g, 1.-17.vii.1998, 1 ♁ 1 ♀, P. Bulirsch lgt., Z. Jindra det. ( ZJPC). İÇEL (= Mersin) province, Taurus Mts. , Alahan, 35 km NW of Silifke, 29.viii.1947, 10 ♁♁ 5 ♀♀, Exp. N. Mus. ČSR lgt., L. Hoberlandt 1958 det. as H. pusillus f. rufescens, P. Kment revid. ( NMPC). Erdemli (36°37′N 34°19′E), Loc. No. 109, 24.-26.viii.1970, 2 ♁♁ 1 ♀, Exp. Nat. Mus. Praha lgt., P. Kment det. ( NMPC). Erdemli (36°37′N 34°18′E), limestone hill above the city on the road to Karakeşti, puddle, 27.iv.2004, 6 ♁♁ 5 ♀♀, I. Malenovský lgt., P. Kment det. ( PKPC). Kurtuluş near Silifke , 12.-17.v.1994, 12 ♁♁ 9 ♀♀, P. Průdek lgt., P. Kment det. ( PKPC, ZJPC, MMBC, KHMC, PBSC). TURKEY or.: TUNCELİ province, Tunceli (39°06′N 39°33′E), city, Munzur river valley, oxbow lake near bridge, 22.vi.2002, 2 ♀♀, P. Kment lgt. et det. ( PKPC). Material from PKPC was compared with the type series kept in ZMAS .

Recently described species known from Russia (South European Territory), Ukraine (Crimea); Georgia, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Iran (provinces Khorāsān and Māzandarān), Kazakhstan (Asian part), Tadzhikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan ( KANYUKOVA 1997, LINNAVUORI & HOSSEINI 2000, LINNAVUORI & MODARRES 1998). Specimens published by HOBERLANDT (1952) from Alahan (as H. pusillus f. rufescens Rey, 1893) and K i z i lviran (as H. pusillus ) also belong to H. pilipes . Biology and ecology of H. pilipes is unknown. KIRITSHENKO (1964, misidentified as H. pusillus and H. montanus – see KANYUKOVA (1997)) collected it on a stream bank in Karatag ( Tadzhikistan). HOBERLANDT & TÁBORSKÝ (1948) described the Turkish localities as a mountain spring led into a stone cattle trough (K i z i lviran) and a mountain spring forming a swamp covered with Carex sp. (Alahan). HOBERLANDT (1974) characterized locality No. 109 near Erdemli as a costal sandy zone of Mediterranean Sea with the mouth of a brook with brackish water with reed and Pennisetum purpureum K. Schumach. stands. We collected it on the shores of the marshes near Tödürge Gölü lake (situated on gypsum, having high water conductivity and reed vegetation along shores), in an oxbow lake in the aluvium of a large mountain river in Tunceli, and in fields near Erdemli in a small puddle fed by a leaking irrigation pipe. According to these observations, H. pilipes seems to be a quite euryecous species in Turkey, inhabiting different types of water bodies both in inland Anatolia as well as on the southern Mediterranean coast. New species for Turkey.