Review of West-Palaearctic Hebridae with description of a new species and redescription of Hebrus fulvinervis (Hemiptera: Heteroptera)
Author
Kment, Petr
Author
Jindra, Zdeněk
Author
Berchi, Gavril Marius
text
Zootaxa
2016
4147
3
201
239
journal article
10.11646/zootaxa.4147.3.1
9640ef3e-e587-4bd9-8e59-9f19075f4ac4
1175-5326
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Hebrus montanus
Kolenati, 1857
(
Figs. 25
,
68
)
Hebrus montanus
Kolenati, 1857
: 474
. Syntypes: Azerbaijan, Karabagh, ‘Koepesdagh’ Mts., ‘Sullü-ghöll’ Lake near ‘Tschai- Kent’ [= Chaykend] (NHMW: 5 specimens—H. Zettel, pers. comm.).
Material
examined.
ALBANIA
:
Shkopet
pr.
Lezha
,
Mat river
, 2.
vii.2012, 1
♀,
L. Blažej
lgt. (
MMBC
)
.
BULGARIA
:
Blagoevgrad Province
:
Strumyani
, 8.
vi.2013, 1
♀,
E. Ezer
lgt.,
P. Kment
det. (
NMPC
)
.
FRANCE:
Corse
:
Navaccia River
, 27.
vii.1955, 1
Ƌ
1 ♀
,
Eckerlein
lgt.,
P. Kment
det. (
NMPC
).
ISRAEL
:
Huleh
, 26.
viii.1980, 1
♀,
D. Furth
lgt.,
P. Kment
det. (
NMPC
)
.
ROMANIA
:
Mehedinți county
:
Cerneți [stream],
44.64°N
22.701944°E
,
53 m
a.s.l.
, 26.
vii.2012, 1
Ƌ, G. M. Berchi
lgt.,
P. Kment
det. (
GBCR
)
.
TURKEY
(Asian Part):
Adana Province
:
Taurus Mts.
,
Pozanti
, 24.
v.1960, 1
Ƌ,
Eckerlein
lgt.,
L. Hoberlandt
1965 det. as
H. eckerleini
, P. Kment
revid. (
NMPC
)
.
Distribution
(
Fig. 68
).
Europe:
Albania
(
Josifov 1970
),
Bosnia Herzegovina
(
Kment & Jindra 2006
),
Bulgaria
(
Josifov 1958
,
1960
,
1963
;
Kment & Jindra 2006
),
France
:
Vendée,
Corse
(
Poisson 1944
,
1957a
;
Kment & Kanyukova 2010
),
Greece
(
Kment & Kanyukova 2010
),
Macedonia
(
Wagner 1962
,
Protić 1998
),
Romania
(
Horváth 1897, this paper
),
Russia
:
South
European Territory
(
Kanyukova 1997
,
2006
;
Golub
et al.
2014
),
Serbia
(
Kment & Jindra 2006
).
North
Africa:?
Egypt
(
Stichel 1956
,
Andersen 1995
, Gadalla & Saleh Ahmed 2005, Salleh Ahmed & Gadalla 2005),
Morocco
(
Poisson 1944
,
Kment & Kanyukova 2010
),
?
Tunisia
(
Slimani
et al.
2016
).
Asia:
Armenia
(
Kanyukova 1997
,
2006
),
Azerbaijan
(
Kanyukova 1997
,
2006
;
Kment & Jindra 2006
;
Kment & Kanyukova 2010
),
Georgia
(
Kanyukova 1997
,
2006
),
Iran
:
Fars
,
Gilan
,
Golestan
,
Khorasan
,
Tehran
(
Kanyukova 1997
,
2006
;
Kment & Kanyukova 2010
;
Ghahari
et al.
2013
),
Israel
(
Nieser 1995, this paper
),
Jordan
(
Kment & Kanyukova 2010
),
Lebanon
(
Kment & Kanyukova 2010
),
?
Syria
(
Stichel 1956
,
Andersen 1995
),
Turkey
(Asian part)
(
Kment & Jindra 2006
,
Fent
et al.
2011
).
A record of
H. montanus
from Slovakia referring to
Kment
et al.
(2003)
was cited in error by
Aukema
et al.
(2013a)
; the record refers to
H. ruficeps
. A record from Hormozgan Province of Iran (
Kment & Kanyukova 2010
) was based on a misidentified specimen of
H. pusillus arabicus
(see below).
Slimani
et al.
(2016)
recorded
H. montanus
from Tunisia; however, the specimens on the photograph they provided are very dark, probably greasy, and it is difficult to determine to which species they really belong. Previous records from Egypt and Syria require further confirmation (see
Fent
et al.
2011
).
The occurrence of
H. montanus
in Israel and Romania is confirmed herein.
Comments.
Kolenati (1857)
listed the type locality of
H. montanus
as follows: ‘Habitat in superficie aquae lacus montani sic dicti Sullü-ghöll (lacu hirudinum), ubi
Pinacobdella Kolenatii
Diesing frequens, in monte Koepesdagh provinciae Transcaucasicae Karabagh prope pagum Tschai-Kent, insidiator ovulis hujusce Pinacobdellae.’ [= Habitat on water surface of mountain lake called as Sullü-ghöll (lake of leeches; in Turkish sülük = leech, göl = lake), where
Pinacobdella kolenatii
Diesing is frequent, in Kopetdag Mt., in Karabagh Province of Transcaucasia, near Tschai-Kent village, being here predator of
Pinacobdella
eggs]. So far, nobody has succeeded in precisely identifying the type locality, other than its location in Mountain Karabagh Republic, an Armenian exclave in Azerbaijan. The names of the lake and mountain seem to disappear nowdays, but there are two villages of the name Chaykend or Çaykənd (which means ‘built near river)’ with the following coordinates: 39°47′30.8″N 46°35′58.6″E and 40°07′47.1″N 46°03′38.1″E; the first is inside Mountain Karabagh Republic, the second is under the control of Azerbaijan (M. Kalashian, pers. comm.).
We follow here the concept of the species as redescribed and illustrated by
Kanyukova (1997)
. Some potential problems concerning taxonomy and identification of the species are discussed under
H. eckerleini
,
H. jeanneli djaneti
and
H. pusillus pusillus
.