Mesovelia furcata Mulsant & Rey, 1852

Kment, Petr & Jindra, Zdeněk, 2005, New and interesting records of true bugs (Heteroptera) from Turkey, southeastern Europe, Near and Middle East, Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae 45, pp. 3-16 : 6-7

Mesovelia furcata Mulsant & Rey, 1852

Material examined. TURKEY centr.: SİVAS province, Demiryurt (39°52′N 37°37′E), Tödürge Gölü lake, swamps along the road to the university camp, 1308 m a.s.l., 27.vi.2002, 1 ♁ (apterous), P. Kment lgt. et det. ( PKPC).

Common Euro-Siberian species recorded from Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Byelorussia, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Kazakhstan (both European and Asian part), Finland, France, Great Britain, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Macedonia, Moldavia, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Romania, Russia (North, Central and South European Territory, East Siberia, Far East), Slovakia, Slovenia, Sweden, Switzerland, Ukraine, and Uzbekistan. Records from Spain, Morocco, Algeria, and Israel are considered doubtful ( ANDERSEN 1995, STRPIĆ 1997, PROTIĆ 1998). One previous record from the Asian part of Turkey from the marshy area of Sultan Sazl igi near Kayseri (Central Anatolia) ( ÖZEMSI & ÖNDER 1988, KIYAK & ÖZSARAC 2001) was neglected by ANDERSEN (1995). Confirmed occurrence in Turkey.