New and interesting records of true bugs (Heteroptera) from Turkey, southeastern Europe, Near and Middle East Author Kment, Petr ) &) Department of Entomology, National Museum, Kunratice 1, CZ- 148 00 Praha 4, Czech Republic; e-mail: sigara @ post. cz &) &) Department of Zoology, Faculty of Science, Charles University, Viničná 7, CZ- 128 44 Praha 2, Czech Republic Author Jindra, Zdeněk ) &) Department of Plant Protection, Faculty of Agronomy, Czech Agricultural University, CZ- 165 21 Praha 6, Czech Republic; e-mail: Jindra @ af. czu. cz text Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae 2005 2005-12-31 45 3 16 journal article 7813 10.5281/zenodo.4503509 35339991-5eef-417d-9a58-b8bf6d06fa65 0374-1036 136EFF92F639E463FFDE7C5D2E65956A 4503509 Microvelia ( Picaultia ) hozari Hoberlandt, 1952 Material examined. TURKEY centr.: İÇEL (= Mersin ) province, Erdemli ( 36°37′N 34°18′E ), limestone hill above the city on the road to Karakeşti, puddle, 27.iv.2004 , 1 ♀ (macropterous), I. Malenovský lgt., P. Kment det. ( PKPC ). This species was transferred from the nominotypical subgenus Microvelia Westwood, 1834 to the subgenus Picaultia Distant, 1913 by ANDERSEN & WEIR (2003) . It is a poorly known species described from the southern Turkish provinces of Adana (locality Suluhan near Kozan) and Gaziantep (localities Kilis and Afrin river near Musabeyli) by HOBERLANDT (1952) . ANDERSEN (1995) and ANDERSEN & WEIR (2003) listed it also from Saudi Arabia . BROWN (1953a) mentioned three females from Hejaz and Northern ’ Asir ( Saudi Arabia ) but found ‘impossible to state whether they belong to the typical form or subsp. macani Brown (in press)’. In the subsequent paper, BROWN (1953b) described the subspecies M . hozari macani Brown, 1953 from Baghdad and attributed the Saudi Arabian specimens to the nominotypical subspecies. However, the species was not included in the review of Saudi Arabian Heteroptera by LINNAVUORI (1986) . CARL (1989) recorded M. hozari from irrigation ditches in Baiji (environs of Tikrīt) in Iraq ; these specimens might be misidentified M . ( P .) macani Brown, 1953. Microvelia hozari was listed from Iraq neither by LINNAVUORI (1994) nor by ANDERSEN (1995) . According to HOBERLANDT (1952) , the Turkish specimens were collected ‘on small water surfaces (at the Afrin river, unfar the course proper of the river in tiny puddles formed by the hoofs of cattle) exposed to constant insolation, without special vegetation’. Our specimen was found in fields near Erdemli in a small puddle fed by a leaking irrigation pipe. Additional record from Turkey and the first one from the İçel province.