Microvelia (Picaultia) pygmaea (Dufour, 1833)

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 : 38-39

Microvelia (Picaultia) pygmaea (Dufour, 1833)

Material examined. ASIAN TURKEY: Çanakkale province: S of Ayvacık (N 39°34'28" E 26°24'04"), 280 m a.s.l., banks of small river, gravel and vegetation, 27.–28.ix.2006, 1 ♂ 1 ♀ (ma), M. Fikáček lgt., P. Kment det. ( NMPC) . Sivas province: Zara env., Demiryurt (N 39°50'35.1" E 37°36'47.5"), spring and river above the village, 26.vi.2002, 1 ♀ (ma), P. Kment lgt. & det. ( NMPC) .

European Turkey. Önder et al. (1984, 2006).

Asian Turkey. Hoberlandt (1952a, revised!), Önder et al. (1981, 2006), Andersen (1995).

Turkey (not distinguished). Stichel (1955), Nieser & Moubayed (1985), Kıyak & Özsaraç (2001), Kanyukova (2006).

General distribution. Western and southern Europe, southern parts of Central Europe, North Africa, Cyprus, Anatolia, Azerbaijan,? Israel, Syria,? Iran, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Kirgizia, and? China ( Walton 1981, Nieser & Moubayed 1985, Andersen 1995, Protić 1998, Linnavuori & Hosseini 2000, Kment 2001, Gogala 2003, Heiss & Ribes 2007, Kanyukova 2006).

Comment. Andersen & Weir (2003) resurrected Picaultia Distant, 1913 as valid subgenus of Microvelia Westwood, 1834 .

Identification. Stichel (1955), Poisson (1957), Nieser (1972), Tamanini (1979), Nieser et al. (1994), Linnavuori & Hosseini (2000), Kanyukova (2006).