Mesopsallus ambiguus (Fallén, 1807)

Çerçi, Barış, Koçak, Özgür & Tezcan, Serdar, 2024, Review of the Heteroptera (Hemiptera) fauna of Turkey: perspectives for future research, European Journal of Taxonomy 937, pp. 1-127 : 15-16

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.5852/ejt.2024.937.2571
publication LSID	lsid:zoobank.org:pub:7E02539C-95F7-482D-88CF-4D0884583EE5
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.12092156
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03D8033C-4D15-1741-FD8C-F89E41A6FD4E
treatment provided by	Plazi
scientific name	Mesopsallus ambiguus (Fallén, 1807)
status

Treatment

Material examined

Psallus (Phylidea) quercus

TURKEY – Artvin Province • 1 ♂; Borçka, Murgul; 5 Sep. 1971; F. Önder leg.; LEMT .

Lepidargyrus ancorifer

TURKEY – DenIzlI ProvInce • 3 ♀♀; Tavas; 3 Jul. 1969; F. Önder leg.; LEMT . – İzmIr ProvInce • 1 ♂; Ödemiş, Bozdağ; 5 Jun. 1969; F. Önder leg.; LEMT .

Comments

This species was recorded from Artvin, Denizli, İzmir and Kütahya by Önder (1976). We examined the vouchers specimens collected from Artvin, Denizli and İzmir, but the specimens from Kütahya could not be located in LEMT. Our examination revealed that the specimens from İzmir and Denizli belonged to Lepidargyrus ancorifer (Fieber, 1858) and the specimen from Artvin belonged to Psallus (Phylidea) quercus (Kirschbaum, 1856) . Therefore, we believe that the missing specimens also belong to another species and M. ambiguus should be excluded from the Heteroptera checklist of Turkey.