Ábrahám Levente (szerk.): Válogatott tanulmányok IV. - Natura Somogyiensis 15. / Miscellanea 4. (Kaposvár, 2009)
Dobosz Roland - Ábrahám Levente: Adatok Törökország kardosfátyolka faunájához (Neuroptera: Nemopteridae)
Natura Somogyiensis 15 113-126 Kaposvár, 2009 Contribution to the knowledge of the Turkish tail-wings (Neuroptera: Nemopteridae) Roland Dobosz1 & Levente Ábrahám2 'Upper Silesian Museum, Natural History Department, Sobieskiego 2, PL 41-902 Bytom, Poland, e-mail :dobosz@muzeum.bytom.pl 2Somogy County Museum, Natural History Department, H-7400 Kaposvár, P.O. Box 70, Hungary, e-mail: labraham@smmi.hu Dobosz, R. & Ábrahám, L.: Contribution to the knowledge of the Turkish tail-wings (Neuroptera: Nemopteridae). Abstract: In their study, the authors publish the data of nemopterid species collected in Turkey and the material preserved in both natural history museums in Poland (USMB, Bytom) and in Hungary (SCM, Kaposvár). New faunistical data are reported for 1 Croce, 3 Dielocroce, 2 Nemoptera, 6 Lertha species, earlier only 11 species in the Turkish nemopterid fauna were mentioned. Dielocroce modesta Hölzel, 1975, Croce schmidti (Navás, 1927) are new species in the fauna of Turkey. The checklist of the fauna is also given. The occurrence of the species is presented in chart by provinces and distribution maps are given for all species. Keywords: faunistics, tail-wings, Nemopteridae, Turkey Introduction Due to their elongated rear wings, tail-wings (Nemopteridae) are impressive-looking insects. The number of their species in the global fauna is around 150 (AspÖCK et al. 2001), thus they belong to the smaller families within the order of neuropterid insects (Neuroptera). They are found mostly in tropical, subtropical areas and in the Mediterranean region of the temperate zone. Located in the meeting zone of Europe, Asia and the nearby Africa, Turkey is situated at the northern boundaries of the distribution area of nemopterid species. The borders of the country of Turkey are mostly natural, physical boundaries, i.e. the frontiers are marked by seas and high-altitude mountains, these terrain morphological features also delimiting distribution areas for many living organisms. Due to the extremely high diversity of natural features in these areas, the Neuroptera fauna found here is very rich (Canbulat 2007). The first Turkish faunal data on Nemopteridae, an occurrence record of Nemoptera sinuata Olivier, 1811 was published in the paper by Schneider (1845). Nearly two decades later, Selys-Longchamps (1866) reported on the description of a new species, Lertha ledereri. Later on, around the turn of the 1900s yet another two tail-wing species (Dielocroce ephemera Gerstäcker, 1894, Lertha sheppardi Kirby, 1904) were revealed to exist in the Turkish fauna.
