Gerris (Gerriselloides) lateralis Schummel, 1832

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 : 62

Gerris (Gerriselloides) lateralis Schummel, 1832

Asian Turkey. Kiritshenko (1918, misidentification); Hoberlandt (1952a, misidentification).

General distribution. Many European countries (except southern part of Balkan Peninsula), Siberia, Russian Far East, Mongolia, Asian part of Kazakhstan, Iran, and Afghanistan ( Andersen 1995; Protić 1998, 2008; Rabitsch & Zettel 2000; Kment & Smékal 2002; Kanyukova 2006). Gheit (1995) recorded this species also from Morocco, but the record may belong to G. asper known to occur in North Africa.

Comment. This species was previously confused with G. asper (cf. Andersen 1995). The records of G. lateralis by Kiritshenko (1918) from Transcaucasia and north-eastern Anatolia (Artvin, Kars, and Iğdır provinces) belong to G. costae fieberi ( Kanyukova 2006 and pers. comm.). The female of G. lateralis from ‘Kızılviran’ published by Hoberlandt (1952a) is in fact G. thoracicus (N.M. Andersen revid.).

Identification. Wagner & Zimmermann (1955), Kanyukova (1982, 2006), Tamanini (1979), Schuster (1983), Andersen (1994).