Velia (Plesiovelia) caprai caprai Tamanini, 1947 (Veliidae)

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 : 61

Velia (Plesiovelia) caprai caprai Tamanini, 1947 (Veliidae)

Asian Turkey. Kıyak & Özsaraç (2001), Kıyak et al. (2008), Salur & Mesci (2009).

General distribution. Widely distributed in Europe, reaching Norway and Sweden in the north, Ireland and Great Britain in the west, Poland, Byelorussia, and Moldavia in the east, Portugal, Spain, Italy, Slovenia, Serbia, and Romania in the south ( Andersen 1995, Protić 1998, Gogala 2003, Derjanschi & Matocq 2005, Lukashuk & Moroz 2007, Protić & Živić 2007).

Comment. This European species is missing from southern parts of the Balkan Peninsula, being replaced by vicariant species. Occurrence of this species is Anatolia is highly improbable and the published records (Antalya, Aydın, Burdur, Çorum, Isparta, KırŞehir, Muğla) ( Kıyak & Özsaraç 2001, Kıyak et al. 2008, Salur & Mesci 2009) belong to another species, possibly V. mariae or V. kirichenkoi , which are missing in the key by Tamanini (1955b).

Identification. Tamanini (1955b, 1979), Nieser (1972).