Bassus linguarius (Nees, 1812)

Erdoğan, Özlem Çetin & Beyarslan, Ahmet, 2016, Faunistic survey on the Agathidinae (Hymenoptera: Braconidae) in the Central Anatolia Region with a new record for the Turkish fauna: Bassus tegularis (Thomson, 1895), Turkish Journal of Zoology 40 (3), pp. 448-453 : 452-453

Bassus linguarius (Nees, 1812)

Occurrences in CAR: 12.07.2007: 11: 1♀. First record for Central Anatolia Region .

General distribution: Palearctic Region ( Armenia, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Finland, former Yugoslavia, France, Germany, Hungary, Iran, Italy, Kazakhstan, Mongolia, the Netherlands, Poland, Slovenia, Spain, Switzerland, Turkey, United Kingdom) ( Yu et al., 2012).

Bassus tegularis (Thomson, 1895)

Occurrences in CAR: 14.09.2006: 12: 1♀. First record for the Turkish fauna.

General distribution: Western Palearctic ( Bulgaria, former Yugoslavia, France, Germany, Hungary, Italy, the Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Sweden, United Kingdom) ( Yu et al., 2012).

Bassus tumidulus (Nees, 1812)

Occurrences in CAR: 23.04.2001: 18: 1♀; 05.06.2007: 25: 1♀. First record for Central Anatolia Region .

General distribution: Palearctic and Oriental regions ( Austria, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Belgium, Bulgaria, China, Croatia, Finland, former Czechoslovakia, former Yugoslavia, France, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iran, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Kazakhstan, Korea, Latvia, Lithuania, Moldova, Mongolia, Morocco, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Russia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey, Ukraine, United Kingdom) ( Yu et al., 2012).

Disophrys Förster, 1862

Disophrys caesa (Klug, 1835)

Occurrences in CAR: 19.07.2007: 21: 1♂; 22.08.2008: 34: 1♂. First record for Central Anatolia Region .

General distribution: Palearctic Region ( Algeria, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bulgaria, Croatia, former Yugoslavia, France, Germany, Hungary, Iran, Italy, Morocco, Portugal, Romania, Russia, Spain, Switzerland, Turkey) ( Yu et al., 2012).

In terms of biodiversity, Turkey is one of the richest countries between Europe and the Middle East. The reasons for the rich biodiversity in Turkey are climatic differences, geological and geomorphologic diversity, bodies of water and rivers and streams, and elevation differences ( Kahraman et al., 2012).

Currently, 1154 species have been recognized, with 74 of them distributed in Europe ( Yu et al., 2012). Çetin Erdoğan (2014) listed 39 species and 5 genera from Turkey, demonstrating that it has a rich Agathidinae fauna with more than half of the species in Europe.

The present study was a faunistic survey to determine the distribution of the subfamily Agathidinae in the CAR. The highest number of Agathidinae species was found in Kayseri and Sivas provinces (6 species each). Compared with other provinces in the CAR, Çankırı, Eskişehir, and Nevşehir have the lowest numbers of Agathidinae species.

In this study, 10 species in the genus Agathis in the CAR were identified, and five of them had been recorded by Çetin Erdoğan et al. (2009) in the same region. However, Agathis fischeri , A. fulmeki , A. lugubris , A. malvacearum , and A. varipes were recorded here for the first time from the CAR. Bassus is represented by three species in the CAR. All of them were recorded in this study from the region. D. caesa is recorded as the species in the region belonging to the genus Disophrys .

According to our data, A. umbellatarum is the most widely spread species in the CAR. The species was found in 10 localities. The highest number of specimens (7 females and 18 males) belongs to A. lugubris . This species was collected from 4 different provinces. Although A. lugubris generally had big populations, some of the species were