Turkish Journal of Zoology Turk J Zool (2017) 41: 33-42 http://journals.tubitak.gov.tr/zoology/ © TÜBİTAK Research Article doi:10.3906/zoo-1601-65 Updated checklist of Odonata fauna in the Turkish Thrace Region, with additional records of new, rare, and threatened taxa Nurten HACET* Department of Biology, Faculty of Science, Trakya University, Edirne, Turkey Received: 26.01.2016 Accepted/Published Online: 14.06.2016 Final Version: 25.01.2017 Abstract: A new record for the Odonata from Turkish Thrace, Lindenia tetraphylla (Vander Linden, 1825), and its heterofamilial heterosexual tandem with a female of Orthetrum albistylum (Selys, 1848) are reported. This finding increases the species number in the region to 56. The current species list of the region based on unpublished records and available literature is presented. Five species are listed at subspecies levels in the region and the controversial subspecies status of some species is summarized. Additional records of rare species based on specimens collected in the region between 2001 and 2015 are provided and their distributions and threat statuses in the European regional assessment are considered. Somatochlora flavomaculata (Vander Linden, 1825) is considered as a species whose presence in the region needs to be confirmed. The presence of Gomphus schneiderii Selys, 1850 is unclear in the region. Key words: List, Lindenia tetraphylla, Gomphidae, new record, heterofamilial tandem, rare and threatened species, Turkish Thrace 1. Introduction species were recorded subsequently, the subspecies status A checklist of the Odonata fauna of Turkey was first of some species was clarified during continuing studies published by Kalkman et al. (2003) after the review study in Turkish Thrace (Boudot et al., 2004; Hacet and Aktaç, of Dumont (1977) on Odonates of Turkey including the 2004, 2008; Olias et al., 2007). The misidentification of Mediterranean islands and the book of Demirsoy (1982) some species from the region in previous studies was also on Odonates of Turkey. In this checklist, a total of 96 indicated (Hacet and Aktaç, 2004). Additional records of spp. (108 spp./sspp. together with subspecies) was listed rare species collected in the region in addition to a new considering the available literature on Turkey fauna. The record for the region are also reported in the present last list of Odonates of Turkey was given by Boudot et study. Consequently, it appears that the current list and al. (2009), in which the authors listed 101 spp. (103spp./ distributional knowledge of Odonata species in Turkish sspp.), 2 of which were reported as extinct in the list. Since Thrace are different from the latest data published. the publication of this last list, data obtained from regional The threatened species and their threat factors were faunistic studies have continued to contribute to the recently reported in the Red Data list prepared on the Odonata fauna of Turkey (e.g., Miroğlu et al., 2011; Salur Odonates of Europe (Kalkman et al., 2010). Six of 21 et al. 2012a, 2012b, 2014) and recently 2 new species were species in the threatened categories in this list are present added to the last list of the Odonata fauna of Turkey by in the Turkish Thrace, of which 4 species are at NT status. Miroğlu (2011) and Kalkman et al. (2012). This rate for the region is significantly high. Records of The first and the only list of Odonates of Turkish these species in the region are rarely known. The density Thrace was reported by Kalkman et al. (2003), in which of species found in an area may change within a short or 48 spp. (49 spp./sspp.) from the region were listed. When long period (Dijkstra and Lewington, 2006). Therefore, species numbers given for Turkish Thrace in this list actual information about the species in the area (e.g., their and the numbers given for Turkey fauna as a whole by ecology, distribution, and current taxonomy) is needed Kalkman et al. (2003) are compared, it appears that the to comment on the status of the species there. This paper number of the species in Turkish Thrace represents half presents an updated checklist of Odonata species in the of the number of total species in Turkey. Kalkman et al. Turkish Thrace region and also aims to document the (2003) reported that a few species and subspecies might be presence of Lindenia tetraphylla in Turkish Thrace and to expected to be present in the region. While some of these report new records for some species that are rare for the * Correspondence: [email protected] 33 HACET / Turk J Zool region or threatened according to the Red List assessment in this study. Available records reported from the region data on odonatans of Europe. so far were classified according to the provinces of the study region and published records for each species from 2. Materials and methods the region were listed (Table). Numbers near the species The material belonging to the rare and the new species names indicate the row of comments in the records section evaluated in this study was collected during field studies for some species in the Table. The names of genera and performed especially in Edirne and Kırklareli provinces species in the records section and in the Table are given in of the Turkish Thrace region between 2001 and 2015. A alphabetical order. female sample (with its first three abdominal segments 2.1. List of localities of recorded new and rare species missing) of Lestes dryas Kirby, 1890 kept in the Odonata from Turkish Thrace collection of Trakya University since 1993 was also added Edirne Province: to the records of the present study. Locality-1. Uzgaç village: (41°48′N, 26°24′E), 146 m, The Turkish Thrace region is situated in the southeastern 04.07.2013, 08.07.2013, 10.07.2014, barrage lake. part of Europe. The Red Data list of odonatans of Europe Locality-2. Balkan Campus of Trakya University: was taken into account for the evaluation of the threatened (41°38′N, 26°37′E), 58 m, 15.05.2002, 20.05.2002, species in the region. 28.05.2002, 5.06.2002, 31.05.2006, 01.06.2006, 16.05.2007, The information belonging to sampling localities and 23.05.2007, 21.05.2008, brook and a manmade pond. recording dates for the new and additional records were Locality-3. Sarayiçi: (41°41′N, 26°33′E), 41 m, listed and the localities were shown on a map of the study 21.05.2002, Tavuk woodland. region (Figure 1). Kırklareli Province: The current Odonata list of the region was based on the Locality-4. Tatarköy village: (41°29′N, 27°22′E), 107 available literature, given in the Table, and records given m, 08.06.2014, 12.07.2014, 13.07.2014, barrage lake. Figure 1. Localities of the species given from Turkish Thrace in the study. 34 HACET / Turk J Zool Table. Updated Odonata list of Turkish Thrace Region (the records of species are given for the each provinces of the region). [Abbreviations- Provinces- ÇA: Çanakkale; ED: Edirne; İS: İstanbul; KI: Kırklareli; TE: Tekirdağ. Red List categories of IUCN- EN: Endangered; VU: Vulnerable; NT: Near Threatened; LC: Least Concern; NA: not applicable. R.L.S of IUCN-E.O.: Red List status of IUCN for European Odonata (Kalkman et al., 2010). *: New record for the region (present paper); +: additional records (present paper); x: records based on literature. Bolded numbers near species names refer to comments in Section 3.] Literature giving the records R.L.S of Provinces in the Turkish Current Odonata species in Turkish Thrace of each species from Turkish IUCN-E.O. Thrace Region Thrace Suborder: ZYGOPTERA ÇA ED İS KI TE Family: Calopterygidae LC Calopteryx splendens (Harris, 1782) x x x x x 3; 9; 10; 13; 14; 24 LC Calopteryx virgo festiva (Brullé, 1832) x x x x 3; 9; 10; 12; 14; 19; 20 Family: Euphaeidae NT Epallage fatime (Charpentier, 1840) 1 x x,+ 3; 9; 10; present paper Family: Lestidae LC Chalcolestes parvidens (Artobolevsky, 1929) x x x x x 9; 10; 12; 14; 15; 17; 25 LC Chalcolestes viridis (Vander Linden, 1825) x 21 LC Lestes barbarus (Fabricius, 1798) x x x x 9; 10; 12; 20; 24; 25 LC Lestes dryas Kirby, 1890 2 x,+ x 19; 25; present paper VU Lestes macrostigma (Eversmann, 1836) x 10 LC Lestes virens (Charpentier, 1825) x x 10; 25 LC Sympecma fusca (Vander Linden, 1820) x x x 9; 10; 24 Family: Coenagrionidae NT Coenagrion ornatum (Selys, 1850) 3 x,+ x 8; 10; present paper LC Coenagrion puella (Linnaeus, 1758) x x x x 6; 9; 10; 12; 19; 25 LC Coenagrion pulchellum (Vander Linden, 1825) 4 + x x 8; 12; present paper LC Coenagrion scitulum (Rambur, 1842) x x x x 6; 9; 10; 16; 19; 25 LC Enallagma cyathigerum (Charpentier, 1840) 5 + x,+ 10; present paper LC Erythromma lindenii lindenii ( Selys, 1840) x x x x 3; 9; 10; 12; 20 LC Erythromma viridulum (Charpentier, 1840) x x x 9; 10; 12; 13; 14; 24 LC Ischnura elegans (Vander Linden, 1820) x x x x x 3; 5; 9; 10; 12; 13; 14; 22; 23; 25 LC Ischnura pumilio (Charpentier, 1825) x x x x x 3; 9; 10; 13; 17; 20; 24 LC Pyrrhosoma nymphula nymphula (Sulzer, 1776) 6 + x x 4; 9; present paper Family: Platycnemididae 2; 3; 5; 9; 10; 12; 13; 14; 15; 17; LC Platycnemis pennipes pennipes (Pallas, 1771) x x x x x 20; 22; 24; 25 Suborder: ANISOPTERA Family: Aeshnidae LC Aeshna affinis Vander Linden, 1820 x x x x 7; 8; 10 LC Aeshna cyanea (Müller, 1764) x 7; 9 LC Aeshna isoceles (Müller, 1767) x x 5; 9; 10; 13 LC Aeshna mixta Latreille, 1805 x x x x 2; 6; 10; 20; 24; 25 LC Anax ephippiger (Burmeister, 1839) x x x 6; 10; 15 LC Anax imperator Leach, 1815 x x x x 9; 10; 12; 13; 14 LC Anax parthenope (Selys, 1839) x x x 9; 10; 13; 14; 19; 24 35 HACET / Turk J Zool Table.