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Black flies (Diptera: Simuliidae) of Turkish Thrace, with a new record for Turkey
Ümit Davut Şirin1, Hakan Çalışkan1, Yalçın Şahin1
1Eskişehir Osmangazi University, Faculty of Science and Art, Biology Department, Eskişehir, Turkey.
Background:
This paper includes 2742 specimens of 18 species of black flies (Diptera: Simuliidae) collected from 132 lotic sites in Turkish Thrace, the European part of Turkey, in the early summer of 2002 and 2003 and the spring of 2005 and 2006.
New Information:
All species are recorded from this region for the first time, and Metacnephianigra (Rubtsov, 1940) is a new record for Turkey. Distributional and taxonomical remarks are given for each species.
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