Nepa cinerea Linnaeus, 1758

Cianferoni, Fabio & Dia, Aref, 2025, Annotated catalogue and checklist of Gerromorpha, Nepomorpha, and Leptopodomorpha (Hemiptera: Heteroptera) of Lebanon, with new records, Zootaxa 5725 (1), pp. 1-54 : 21

Nepa cinerea Linnaeus, 1758

Nepa cinerea Linnaeus : Giglio-Tos (1894: 10), “Schtora [= Chtaura, Chtoura] alle falde del Libano ”; “Ain Haur a 1800 m. sul Libano ”; Horváth (1926: 111), “Mare d’Addous (vallée de la Bèkaa)”; Nieser & Moubayed (1986: 250), “ Liban [only in the checklist]”, probably based on the previous references.

Material examined. Published records: “ Stora”, [1893], [ E. Festa leg.], [ E. Giglio-Tos det.] as Nepa cinerea Lin., F. Cianferoni revid., 1 ♂, 1 ♀, MRSN ; “Ain | Haur”, [1893], [ E. Festa leg.], [ E. Giglio-Tos det.] as Nepa cinerea Lin., F. Cianferoni revid., 3 ♂♂, 4 ♀♀, MRSN .

Survey material: Basin of Orontes: El Jammâssia at Marjhine, 20.V.2001, 1 ♂, CFC .

Extra-survey material: Kammouha ( Coll. Am. Un. Beirut), 18–20.VIII.1952, K. Christiansen leg., 1 ♂ ( NMPC) .

General distribution. This is a Palaearctic species (Polhemus 1995a, Cianferoni & Mazza 2012).

Remarks. Species identification confirmed through the study of male genitalia which match those of other Mediterranean populations.