Heliocorisa vermiculata (Puton, 1874)

Çerçi, Barış, Koçak, Özgür & Tezcan, Serdar, 2024, Review of the Heteroptera (Hemiptera) fauna of Turkey: perspectives for future research, European Journal of Taxonomy 937, pp. 1-127 : 14-15

Heliocorisa vermiculata (Puton, 1874)

Material examined

Sigara (Subsigara) daghestanica

TURKEY – Bursa Province • 1 ♂; Mustafakemalpaşa, Aliseydi; 21 Jun. 1977; F. Önder leg.; LEMT .

Corixidae sp.

TURKEY – Kocaeli Province • 1 ♀; Karamürsel; 16 Aug. 1977; F. Önder leg.; LEMT .

Comments

As discussed by Fent et al. (2011), the records of Heliocorisa vermiculata by Önder et al. (1981) needed confirmation. A re-examination of corresponding specimens revealed that the specimen from Bursa ( Fig. 4A ) referred to Sigara (Subsigara) daghestanica Jansson, 1983 (Petr Kment det.) and the specimen from Kocaeli was in poor condition, therefore could not be identified to species level. As these were the only records of this species from Turkey, it is now excluded from the checklist of Heteroptera of Turkey.

Figures

Fig. 4. A. Sigara (Subsigara) daghestanica Jansson, 1983, with close-up view of foretibia, ♀♂ (LEMT). B. Europiella alpina (Reuter, 1875), with close-up view of posterior tarsus, ♀ (LEMT). Scale bars = 1 mm.