Nepa cinerea Linnaeus, 1758

Fent, Meral, Kment, Petr, Çamur-Elipek, Belgin & Kirgiz, Timur, 2011, Annotated catalogue of Enicocephalomorpha, Dipsocoromorpha, Nepomorpha, Gerromorpha, and Leptopodomorpha (Hemiptera: Heteroptera) of Turkey, with new records 2856, Zootaxa 2856 (1), pp. 1-84 : 11

Nepa cinerea Linnaeus, 1758

= Nepa rubra Linnaeus, 1758

= Nepa dollfusi Esaki, 1928

Material examined. EUROPEAN TURKEY: Edirne province: Center—Bölge Trafik (loc. 2), 1 ♂; Süleoğlu (loc. 8), 4 larvae; Güllapoğlu Deresi [stream] (loc. 11), 3 ♂♂ 2 ♀♀, M. Fent det. ( TUET) . Kırklareli province: Dereköy—Bizim Göl [pond] (loc. 22), 1 ♂ ; Kırklareli, city center (loc. 24), 1 ♂, M. Fent det. ( TUET) . ASIAN TUR- KEY: Aydın province: Aydın, 15.vi.1968, 1 ♀, Ardö lgt., P. Kment det. ( NMPC) . Bolu province: Örencik env., Abant Gölü [lake], 23.–24.vi.1969, 1 ♀, Riva & V. Cottarelli lgt., P. Kment det. ( NMPC) . Nemrout Dagh (274) [= Nemrut Dağı [Mts.], there are two well known locations of that name in Adıyaman and Bitlis provinces)], 27.ix.1956, 2 ♀♀, K. Lindberg lgt., P. Kment det. ( NMPC) .

European Turkey. Josifov (1986a), Polhemus (1995a), Aukema (2009); this paper. First exact records from Turkish Thrace.

Asian Turkey. Horváth (1919), Kiritshenko (1918), Fahringer (1922), Hoberlandt (1952a, revised!), Seidenstücker (1963, as N. dollfusi ), Polhemus (1995a), Bat et al. (2000), Kıyak et al. (2004), Önder et al. (2006), Kıyak et al. (2007a), Topkara et al. (2009), Dursun (2011).

Turkey (not distinguished). Stichel (1955, as N. rubra ), Nieser & Moubayed (1985), Kıyak & Özsaraç (2001), Kanyukova (2006).

General distribution. Palaearctic Region, reaching from Ireland and north-western Africa to Central Asia, northern China, and Russian Far East ( Polhemus 1995 a, Protić 1998, Kanyukova 2008).

Comment. Seidenstücker (1963) regarded N. dollfusi as a senior synonym of N. sardiniensis Hungerford, 1928 . This synonymy was not accepted by Nieser (1978), and N. sardiniensis remains a valid species endemic to Corsica and Sardinia ( Polhemus 1995a). Polhemus et al. (1994) synonymized N. dollfusi with N. cinerea (see also Polhemus 1995a).

Identification. Stichel (1955), Poisson (1957), Nieser (1972), Tamanini (1979), Nieser et al. (1994), Linnavuori & Hosseini (2000), Kanyukova (2006).