Ábrahám Levente (szerk.): Válogatott tanulmányok IV. - Natura Somogyiensis 15. / Miscellanea 4. (Kaposvár, 2009)

Dobosz Roland - Ábrahám Levente: Adatok Törökország kardosfátyolka faunájához (Neuroptera: Nemopteridae)

Dobosz R. & Abrahám L.: Turkish tail-wings

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Results

The current study reveals the faunal data of Nemopteridae material collected in Turkey and deposited in a Polish (USMB Bytom) and a Hungarian (SCM Kaposvár) museum.

Turkey’s Nemopteridae fauna is very rich: altogether 13 species have been found so far. The two collections preserve proof specimens of 12 species. Two species - Croce schmidti (Navás, 1927) and Dielocroce modesta Hölzel, 1975 - were described from the Turkish fauna for the fist time. We have no data about the occurrence of Nemoptera aegyptica Rambur, 1842 in Turkey, although it has been successfully collected in Syria, directly beside the Turkish border. The recorded species belong to two subfamilies - 4 species to Crocinae and 9 species to Nemopterinae —, and the species checklist includes all the faunistical data of the species in both collections (numbers, sex, province, settlement, date and time of collecting, collector).

Based on earlier publications about the Turkish fauna, the distribution areas of the various species by province is provided and is shown in maps (Figs 1-5).

The compilation of faunistical data is finished with the checklist of the Turkish Nemopteridae fauna.

When collecting the distribution data of the species we paid particular attention to species that were described from the area of Turkey (Dielocroce ephemera, Lertha ledereri, Lertha vartianiae, Lertha schmidti, Lertha sheppardi). For these species, the Turkish type localities, based on data from the original description of the species, are also specified.

List of collected species

Abbreviations:

USMB - Upper Silesian Museum, Bytom, Poland SCM - Somogy County Museum, Kaposvár, Hungary

Croce schmidti (Navás, 1927)

Material examined:

in Coll: Upper Silesian Museum, Bytom, Poland

22c?cJ, 42$$ - 24-25 VII 2006, Adiyaman, S of Karadut vili. 37°55'N 38°49’E, 840 m, ad lucem, leg. Roland Dobosz.

Distribution in Turkey: New for Turkey.

Distribution: It spreads from East Turkey to Pakistan in the West Palearctic region, an Irano-Eremial faunal element (Aspöck et al. 2001).

Remarks: It flies in the middle of the summer, and is active at night.

Dielocroce baudii (Griffini, 1895)

Material examined:

in Coll: Upper Silesian Museum, Bytom, Poland

1(5, 2$$ 27-28 VII 2004 Adiyaman, Cesme Pension Nemrut Dagi N.P. 37°56'N/38°46’E, 1390 m, ad lucem leg. Roland Dobosz; 1(5, 6$$ 24-26 VII 2006 Adiyaman S of Karadut vili. 37°55'N/38°49'E, 840 m, ad lucem leg. Roland Dobosz.

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