Catoplatus crassipes (Fieber, 1861)

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 : 470

Catoplatus crassipes (Fieber, 1861)

Material examined: ASIAN TURKEY: Amasya province: Suluova, Bayırlık, 400 m, 22.06.2016, 1♀ ; Giresun province: Şebinkarahisar, Çamlıbel, 1111 m, 19.05.2006, 1♂ ; Güzelyurt , 1230 m, 21.06.2006, 1♀ ; 02.07.2006, 1♀, 1♂; Dereköy , 1010 m, 21.06.2006, 1♀ ; Hatay province: Hassa, Akbez, 450 m, 19.05.2010, 2♀♀, 4♂♂ ; Kırıkhan, Karamağara, 131 m, 20.05.2010, 1♂; Sivas province: Koyulhisar, Karaağaç, 615 m, 29.06.2005, 1♀ ; Tokat province: Reşadiye, Cemel, 560 m, 27.06.2006, 1♀ ; 22.06.2006, 2♀♀.

Asian Turkey: Reuter (1880, as Monanthia krueperi ), Horváth (1906, as Catoplatus dilatatus ); Lodos & Önder (1983); Péricart (1981, 1983), Hoberlandt (1956, as Catoplatus dilatatus ), Seidenstücker (1960), Péricart & Golub (1996), Önder et al. (2006); Maral et al. (2013); Matocq et al. (2014), this study.

European Turkey: Lodos & Önder (1983).

Comments: This Ponto-Eastmediterranean species was found for the first time by Reuter (1880) in Turkey from İzmir (Aegean region) as Monanthia kreuperi and by Horváth (1906) from Akbes (in Hatay province), Ephesus, Smyrna (= İzmir) as Catoplatus dilatatus .