Plea minutissima minutissima Leach, 1817

Fent, Meral, Kment, Petr, Çamur-Elipek, Belgin & Kirgiz, Timur, 2011, Annotated catalogue of Enicocephalomorpha, Dipsocoromorpha, Nepomorpha, Gerromorpha, and Leptopodomorpha (Hemiptera: Heteroptera) of Turkey, with new records 2856, Zootaxa 2856 (1), pp. 1-84 : 33-34

Plea minutissima minutissima Leach, 1817

= Plea atomaria (non Pallas, 1771)

= Plea leachi McGregor & Kirkaldy, 1899

Material examined. EUROPEAN TURKEY: Edirne province: Değirmenyeni village (loc. 7), 2 ♂♂ 1 ♀ , M. Fent det. ( TUET); Edirne, 8.–13.vi.1947, 1 spec. , Exp. N. Mus. ČSR lgt., P. Kment det. ( NMPC). ASIAN TURKEY: Konya province: Konya, 31.viii.1947, 1 spec. , Exp. N. Mus. ČSR lgt., P. Kment det. ( NMPC). Sivas province: Zara env., Tödürge Gölü [lake] (N 39°53' E 37°37'), swamp along the road to university station, 27.vi.2002, 1 ♂ , P.

Kment lgt. & det. ( NMPC).

European Turkey. Josifov (1986a), Polhemus (1995f), Aukema (2009); this paper. First exact records from Turkish Thrace.

Asian Turkey. Oshanin (1910, 1912), Gadeau de Kerville (1939, as P. Leachi ), Hoberlandt (1952a, as P. Leachi , revised!), Linnavuori (1965, as P. atomaria ), Özesmi & Önder (1988), Polhemus (1995f), Kıyak et al. (2004), Balık et al. (2006), Önder et al. (2006), Kıyak et al. (2007a), Topkara et al. (2009), Dursun (2011); this paper.

Turkey (not distinguished). Stichel (1955, as P. atomaria ), Nieser & Moubayed (1985), Önder & Lodos (1988, as P. atomaria ), Kıyak & Özsaraç (2001).

General distribution. Most of European countries, North Africa, Israel, Cyprus, Anatolia, Transcaucasia, Iraq, Iran, Central Asia, and West Siberia ( Polhemus 1995f, Protić 1998, Linnavuori & Hosseini 2000, Coulianos 2005). Identification. Stichel (1955), Poisson (1957), Nieser (1972), Tamanini (1979), Nieser et al. (1994), Linnavuori & Hosseini (2000), Kanyukova (2006).