Elasmotropis testacea testacea (Herrich-Schaeffer, 1830)

Dursun, Ahmet & Fent, Meral, 2017, Annotated Checklist of Tingidae (Hemiptera: Heteroptera) in Turkey with new records for the faunas of Europe and Turkish Thrace, Zootaxa 4347 (3), pp. 465-491 : 476

Elasmotropis testacea testacea (Herrich-Schaeffer, 1830)

Material examined: ASIAN TURKEY: Erzincan province: Refahiye, Çavuşköy, 1571 m, 21.06.2007, 1♂ ; Gümüşhane province: Hasköy , 1176 m, 23.06.2007, 1♂ ; Köse , 493 m, 18.05.2006, 1♂ ; Köse-Öğünce , 1496 m, 18.05.2006, 2♀♀ ; Sivas province: Suşehri, Değirmentaş, 18.05.2006, 745 m, 1♂ ; Tokat province: Erbaa, Kaleköy, 210 m, 25.06.2005, 1♀ ; 07.08.2007, 1♂ Değirmenli , 210 m, 25.06.2006, 1♂ .

Asian Turkey: Seidenstücker (1954), Hoberlandt (1956, as Elasmotropis testacea var. vicina ), Linnavuori (1965), Lodos & Önder (1983), Péricart (1981a, 1983), Péricart & Golub (1996), Önder et al. (2006), Yıldırım et al. (2013), Matocq et al. (2014), Kıyak (2016), this study.

Comments: This species has been found for the first time from Erzurum by Yıldırım et al. (2013) and from Diyarbakır, Elazığ, Mardin by Matoq et al. (2014) as E. testacea selecta (Horváth, 1891) but Maral et al. (2014) reported from the same area (Diyarbakır, Elazığ, Mardin) as E. testacea testacea . Probably, Yıldırım et al. (2013) and Matoq et al. (2014) reported mistaken records. Matoq et al. (2014) reported that two subspecies as sympatric but did not provide any evidence of that. We believe that only nominotypical subspecies distributed in Turkey. This species has ben reported as an alien species by Kment (2006) and Rabitsch (2008).