List of Two Thousand Species of Pterygot Insects in Van Province (East Turkey)
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Centre for Vxát axãá Entomological Studies Ankara established in 1966 Announcements- General News – Expeditions- Information about the activities of the Cesa Publications –Visitors – Workshops - Seminars - free irregular internet Issues &c Nr.81 8 August 2012 “Though hundreds of thousands had done their very best to disfigure the small piece of land on which they were crowded together, by paving the ground with stones, scraping away every vestige of vegetation, cutting down the trees, turning away birds and beasts, and filling the air with the smoke of naphtha and coal, still spring was spring, even in the town. The sun shone warm, the air was balmy; everywhere, where it did not get scraped away, the grass revived and sprang up between the paving-stones as well as on the narrow strips of lawn on the boulevards. The birches, the poplars, and the wild cherry unfolded their gummy and fragrant leaves, the limes were expanding their opening buds; crows, sparrows, and pigeons, filled with the joy of spring, were getting their nests ready; the flies were buzzing along the walls, warmed by the sunshine. All were glad, the plants, the birds, the insects, and the children. But men, grown-up men and women, did not leave off cheating and tormenting themselves and each other. It was not this spring morning men thought sacred and worthy of consideration not the beauty of God's world, given for a joy to all creatures, this beauty which inclines the heart to peace, to harmony, and to love, but only their own devices for enslaving one another...” [Tolstoy,L.,1899, Resurrection; transl. L.Maude]. List of the two thousand species of pterygot insects in Van province (East Turkey) (Results of the entomofauna project of Turkey - 7) 1 Ahmet Ömer Koçak Muhabbet Kemal In the year of 2008, the Project “Entomofauna of Turkey” was begun privately. The main aim was to compile the hitherto recorded taxa of pterygot insects in Turkey. For this purpose, 24 pterygot orders in Turkey, their family -, genus – and species group taxa have been studying by the authors. Results of the fields studies have also been evaluating to some degree. Six reports of the temporary results were published so far. In these reports, not only the previously published information by other native or foreign authors were compiled, updated taxonomical or nomenclatural cases of the taxa, but also numerous new records to the provincial or country fauna were added. Unfortunately, there is no similar studying program, having such a perspective to the fauna of Turkey currently. Total number of the pterygot insect species of Turkey was reported by the authors on 8 January 2011 as “17629”.2 Whereas the current number reaches to 19492. Van, from the faunistical standpoint, is one of the little studied provinces of Turkey. Several years ago, the total pterygot fauna of this province was less than thousand species. Today, exact number of the species reached to 2000 species; among them, several hundred records belong to the field studies of the present authors. Expected number of species is around 5000 in the province. In the present paper, only the synonymical list of the species is given alphabetically together with their families, under the studied orders. Totally 16 orders are illustrated here representatively from various places of Van Province. These are as follows; Ephemeroptera, Plecoptera, Odonata, Mantodea, Dermaptera, Phasmida, Orthoptera, Hemiptera, Homoptera, Planipennia, Trichoptera, Mecoptera, Lepidoptera, Diptera, Hymenoptera and Coleoptera. Planned further faunistical studies in the province, such as Artos Mountain, Çatak, etc. will be published separately. The symbol # denotes the unavailable names in the list below. All the species are identified by the authors, unless otherwise is stated. All the photographs are taken by the second author specially for this research and preserved in Cesa Archive. All the collected material are preserved in the Cesa Collection. 1 Previous issues of this series are as follows: Koçak,A.Ö. et al., 2008, Entomofauna of Turkey. Report of the Entomofauna of Turkey- I. Cesa News 36: 13-25; Koçak,A.Ö, Kemal,M., Özdemir,M. & I. Özdemir, 2008, Report on the “Entomofauna of Turkey” 2- Index of the recorded species of the Pterygot Insects of Turkey. Cesa News 37: 2-41, 1 fig.; Koçak,A.Ö., Kemal,M., Özkol,H. & L.Kayci, 2009, Report on the “Entomofauna of Turkey” 3- Revised and expanded index of the recorded genera and species of the Pterygot Insects of Turkey. - Cesa News 40: 12- 83, 1 fig.; Koçak,A.Ö. & M.Kemal, 2009, Report on the “Entomofauna of Turkey” 4- Revised and expanded index of the species of the Pterygot Insects of Turkey. - Cesa News 41: 4-46, 2 figs.; Koçak,A.Ö. & M.Kemal, 2009, Report on the “Entomofauna of Turkey” 5- Revised and expanded index of the species of the Pterygot Insects of Turkey. - Cesa News 42: 1-38, 9 figs.; Koçak,A.Ö. & M.Kemal, 2009, Results of the Entomofauna Projects of the Cesa 6- List of the 11132 pterygot insect species of Turkey hitherto recorded in the database of the Cesa. Cesa News 47: 47-197. 2 http://www.cesa-tr.org/numbertr.htm Nr. 81 C e s a N e w s 8 August 2012 Centre for Entomological Studies Ankara Ephemeroptera For the time being, only some field observations have been made by the authors in the province, so far. Selected images (Figs. 1-3) are given below. Figs. 1-3. Top from Başet Mountain (Van, Gürpınar) 24 6 2010; bottom left and right (nymph) from Çatak (Van), 1500m, 6 3 2010, M Kemal (Cesa) 2 Nr. 81 C e s a N e w s 8 August 2012 Centre for Entomological Studies Ankara Plecoptera In Turkey totally 81 species have been recorded by the authors based upon the literary sources. Some field observations especially in the early spring have been realized or collected some specimens by the authors in the province (Fig.4). No specific identification has been made so far. Fig. 4 - Adult stonefly from Van Province, north of Çatak 1700m, 6 3 2010, M Kemal (Cesa) 3 Nr. 81 C e s a N e w s 8 August 2012 Centre for Entomological Studies Ankara Odonata Totally 114 species in Turkey have been reported by the authors. In the province, 25 species are listed below (Fig.5). 1. Aeshna affinis Van Der Linden,1820 (Aeshnidae) Synonym(s): affinis Van Der Linden,1820 2. Aeshna serrata (Hagen,1856) (Aeshnidae) Synonym(s): serrata Hagen,1856 3. Anax imperator Leach,1815 (Aeshnidae) Synonym(s): imperator Leach,1815 4. Calopteryx intermedia Selys,1887 (Calopterygidae) Synonym(s): intermedia Selys,1887 5. Epallage fatime (Charpentier,1840) (Calopterygidae) Synonym(s): fatime Charpentier,1840 6. Coenagrion ornatum (Selys,1850) (Coenagrionidae) Synonym(s): ornatum Selys,1850 7. Coenagrion scitulum (Rambur,1842) (Coenagrionidae) Synonym(s): scitulum Rambur,1842 8. Coenagrion syriacum (Morton,1924) (Coenagrionidae) Synonym(s): syriacum Morton,1924 9. Enallagma cyathigerum (Charpentier,1840) (Coenagrionidae) Synonym(s): cyathigerum Charpentier,1840 10. Ischnura elegans (Van Der Linden,1820) (Coenagrionidae) Synonym(s): elegans Van Der Linden,1820 11. Ischnura pumilio (Charpentier,1825) (Coenagrionidae) Synonym(s): pumilio Charpentier,1825 12. Cordulegaster insignis Schneider,1845 (Cordulegasteridae) Synonym(s): insignis Schneider,1845; amasina Morton,1916 13. Lestes barbarus (Fabricius,1798) (Lestidae) Synonym(s): barbarus Fabricius,1798 14. Lestes dryas Kirby,1890 (Lestidae) Synonym(s): dryas Kirby,1890 15. Libellula depressa Linnaeus,1758 (Libellulidae) Synonym(s): depressa Linnaeus,1758 16. Libellula quadrimaculata Linnaeus,1758 (Libellulidae) Synonym(s): quadrimaculata Linnaeus,1758 17. Orthetrum albistylum (Selys,1848) (Libellulidae) Synonym(s): albistylum Selys,1848 18. Orthetrum brunneum (Fonscolombe,1837) (Libellulidae) Synonym(s): brunneum Fonscolombe,1837 19. Orthetrum anceps (Schneider,1845) (Libellulidae) Synonym(s): anceps Schneider,1845 20. Crocothemis erythraea (Brullé,1832) (Libellulidae) Synonym(s): victoria Fourcroy,1785; erythraea Brullé,1832; coccinea Charpentier,1840; lorti Kirby,1896 21. Sympetrum flaveolum (Linnaeus,1758) (Libellulidae) Synonym(s): flaveolum Linnaeus,1758 22. Sympetrum fonscolombii (Selys,1840) (Libellulidae) Synonym(s): fonscolombii Selys,1840 23. Sympetrum meridionale (Selys,1841) (Libellulidae) Synonym(s): meridionale Selys,1841 24. Sympetrum pedemontanum (Allioni,1766) (Libellulidae) Synonym(s): pedemontanum Allioni,1766 25. Sympetrum striolatum (Charpentier,1840) (Libellulidae) Synonym(s): striolatum Charpentier,1840 Fig. 5 - Onychogomphus sp. (Gomphidae) from Van Prov., Zeve 1700m 7 6 2012 M Kemal (Cesa). It is not reported in the province so far. 4 Nr. 81 C e s a N e w s 8 August 2012 Centre for Entomological Studies Ankara Blattodea Two anthropogen species have been recorded by the authors so far. 26. Blatta orientalis Linnaeus,1758 (Blattidae) Synonym(s): orientalis Linnaeus,1758 27. Polyphaga aegyptiaca (Linnaeus,1758) (Polyphagidae) Synonym(s): aegyptiaca Linnaeus,1758 Mantodea Three species have been listed below. 28. Iris oratoria (Linnaeus,1758) (Irididae) Synonym(s): oratoria Linnaeus,1758; dentata Goeze,1778; bella Germar,1817; minima Charpentier,1825; fenestrata Brullé,1832 29. Ameles syriensis Giglio-Tos,1915 (Mantidae) Synonym(s): syriensis Giglio-Tos,1915 30. Bolivaria brachyptera (Pallas,1773) (Mantidae) (Fig. 6) Synonym(s): brachyptera Pallas,1773 Fig.