Black flies (Diptera: Simuliidae) of Turkish Thrace, with a new record for Turkey Author Sirin, Uemit Davut Author Caliskan, Hakan Author Sahin, Yalcin text Biodiversity Data Journal 2015 3 4834 4834 http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/BDJ.3.e4834 journal article http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/BDJ.3.e4834 1314-2828--4834 Simulium (Wilhelmia) paraequinum Puri, 1933 Materials Type status: Other material . Occurrence: sex: 5 males pharate adult, 3 females pharate adult; lifeStage: 3 pupae , 4 larvae ; Taxon: scientificName: Simulium (Wilhelmia) paraequinum Puri, 1933; kingdom: Animalia; phylum: Arthropoda; class: Insecta; order: Diptera; family: Simuliidae; genus: Simulium; subgenus: Wilhelmia; scientificNameAuthorship: Puri, 1933; Location: continent: Europe; country: Turkey ; stateProvince: Kirklareli ; county: Ueskuep ; locationRemarks: 41; verbatimLatitude: 41°48'7.98"N ; verbatimLongitude: 27°27'14.63"E ; Identification: identificationID: esoguent-th-id- 218; Event: eventDate: 05/27/2002 Notes Simulium paraequinum ranges from the Balkans to Pakistan; Anatolia lies centrally in the distribution. This species was recorded first from Anatolia by Kazanci and Clergue-Gazeau (1990) near the southwestern corner of Asia Minor. Crosskey and Zwick (2007) recorded it from five sites in the southern Taurus Mountains and northwestern Anatolia. It also occurs in Greece and Bulgaria, which are boundary countries of Turkish Thrace. This species can be distinguished from S. pseudequinum only by the genitalia of males and females. The genitalia of our pharate males and females collected from only one locality, Site 41, fit the figure and description of S. paraequinum given by Crosskey and Malicky (2001) . We observed that the length of the gill tubes of our specimens of S. paraequinum were longer than all of those of S. pseudequinum .