Annotated catalogue of Enicocephalomorpha, Dipsocoromorpha, Nepomorpha, Gerromorpha, and Leptopodomorpha (Hemiptera: Heteroptera) of Turkey, with new records 2856 Author Fent, Meral Author Kment, Petr Author Çamur-Elipek, Belgin Author Kirgiz, Timur text Zootaxa 2011 2011-04-29 2856 1 1 84 https://biotaxa.org/Zootaxa/article/view/zootaxa.2856.1.1 journal article 10.11646/zootaxa.2856.1.1 1175­5334 5286719 Aphelocheirus ( Aphelocheirus ) aestivalis (Fabricius, 1794) ( Figs. 11–12 ) Asian Turkey . Hoberlandt (1952a , revised!), Nieser & Moubayed (1985) , Kanyukova (1995a) , Önder et al. (2006) , Koçak & Kemal (2010) . Turkey (not distinguished). Stichel (1955) , Kıyak & Özsaraç (2001) , Kanyukova (2006) , Kıyak et al. (2006) . General distribution. Known from most of European countries (except of Iberian Peninsula and southern parts of Balkan Peninsula), Anatolia , and Georgia ( Kanyukova 1995a ; Gerend 1993 ; Rabitsch & Zettel 2000 ; Coulianos 2005 ; Živić et al. 2006 , 2007). FIGURES 11–12. Aphelocheirus ( Aphelocheirus ) aestivalis (Fabricius, 1794) , female (Zeylan; 8.2 mm): 11—detail of micropterous hemelytron, 12—habitus. Horváth (1895) described the species under the name Aphelocheirus breviceps Horváth, 1895 from neighbouring Georgia (Tbilisi); it was synonymized with A. aestivalis by Kanyukova (1974) . The earlier records from Iberian Peninsula belong to two endemic species described rather recently— Aphelocheirus murcius Nieser & Millán, 1989 ( Spain ) and A. occidentalis Nieser & Millán, 1989 ( Portugal , Spain ) ( Nieser & Millán 1989 , Carbonell & Millán 2010 , Carbonell et al . 2011), The record of A. aestivalis from Morocco published by Gheit (1995) belongs probably to the endemic species A. rotroui Bergevin, 1925 , described from a single macropterous male (cf. Polhemus et al. 1995, Carbonell & Millán 2010 , Carbonell et al . 2011). Comment. Hoberlandt (1952a) recorded this species from the locality ‘Zeylan’ (north of Van lake, eastern Anatolia ). The single voucher specimen from Zeylan ( Figs. 11–12 ) ( Hoberlandt 1952a ) is a brachypterous female. Its comparison with material from the Czech Republic revealed its general similarity, except for the distinctly shallow incision of the postero-lateral margin of the hemelytron ( Figs. 11–12 ). We consider this difference as an intraspecific variability; however, examination of the male genitalia and/or DNA sequences is desirable for final confirmation of the species from Turkey , considering also the recent evidence of additional cryptic Aphelocheirus species in northern Spain (Carbonell et al. 2011). Nieser & Moubayed (1985) mentioned A. aestivalis also from Mersin (southern Anatolia ); but N. Nieser (pers. comm. 2010) was not able to retrace the source of the information, and admits a possible confusion with A. kolenatii . Identification. Kanyukova (1974 , 2006 ). The life cycle and reproduction were recently treated in detail by Papáček & Soldán (2008) .