Gerris (Gerris) gibbifer Schummel, 1832 (Gerridae)

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 : 62

Gerris (Gerris) gibbifer Schummel, 1832 (Gerridae)

= Gerris gibbifer var. flaviventris Puton, 1879

European Turkey. Hoberlandt (1952a, misidentification), Önder et al. (2006).

Asian Turkey. Horváth (1919), Poisson (1925, also as G. gibbifer f. flaviventris), Gadeau de Kerville (1939, also as G. gibbifer f. flaviventris), Önder et al. (2006). Kıyak et al. (2007b, 2008), Salur & Mesci (2009).

Turkey (not distinguished). Stichel (1955), Nieser & Moubayed (1985).

General distribution. European species, missing in Balkan Peninsula and European Russia; also recorded from Morocco and Tunisia ( Andersen 1995, Gheit 1995, Strpić 1997, Protić 1998, Gogala 2003, Kanyukova 2006).

Comment. Andersen (1995): ‘Previous records of Gerris gibbifer from SE Europe, N Africa, and the Middle East probably apply to Gerris maculatus .’ The specimens from Edirne ( Hoberlandt 1952a) belong to G. maculatus (P. Kment revid.).

Identification. Seidenstücker (1957), Nieser (1972), Tamanini (1979), Kanyukova (1982, 2006), Andersen (1994).