Simulium (Eusimulium) velutinum (Santos Abreu, 1922)

Sirin, Uemit Davut, Caliskan, Hakan & Sahin, Yalcin, 2015, Black flies (Diptera: Simuliidae) of Turkish Thrace, with a new record for Turkey, Biodiversity Data Journal 3, pp. 4834-4834 : 4834

Simulium (Eusimulium) velutinum (Santos Abreu, 1922)

Materials

Type status: Other material. Occurrence: sex: 1 male pharate adult, 2 females pharate adult; lifeStage: 7 pupae, 5 larvae; Taxon: scientificName: Simulium (Eusimulium) velutinum (Santos Abreu, 1922); kingdom: Animalia; phylum: Arthropoda; class: Insecta; order: Diptera; family: Simuliidae; genus: Simulium; subgenus: Eusimulium; scientificNameAuthorship: (Santos Abreu, 1922); Location: continent: Europe; country: Turkey; stateProvince: İstanbul; county: Çatalca; locationRemarks: 10; verbatimLatitude: 41°13'57.35"N; verbatimLongitude: 28°30'15.57"E; Identification: identificationID: esoguent-th-ıd- 76; Event: eventDate: 05/22/2002

Type status: Other material. Occurrence: sex: 1 female pharate adult; lifeStage: 7 pupae, 4 larvae; Taxon: scientificName: Simulium (Eusimulium) velutinum (Santos Abreu, 1922); kingdom: Animalia; phylum: Arthropoda; class: Insecta; order: Diptera; family: Simuliidae; genus: Simulium; subgenus: Eusimulium; scientificNameAuthorship: (Santos Abreu, 1922); Location: continent: Europe; country: Turkey; stateProvince: İstanbul; county: Çatalca; locationRemarks: 11; verbatimLatitude: 41°14'51.86"N; verbatimLongitude: 28°25'50.19"E; Identification: identificationID: esoguent-th-ıd- 77; Event: eventDate: 05/22/2002

Type status: Other material. Occurrence: sex: 2 males, 2 females, 1 male pharate adult, 1 female pharate adult; lifeStage: 5 pupae, 8 larvae; Taxon: scientificName: Simulium (Eusimulium) velutinum (Santos Abreu, 1922); kingdom: Animalia; phylum: Arthropoda; class: Insecta; order: Diptera; family: Simuliidae; genus: Simulium; subgenus: Eusimulium; scientificNameAuthorship: (Santos Abreu, 1922); Location: continent: Europe; country: Turkey; stateProvince: Kırklareli; county: Pınarhisar; locationRemarks: 38; verbatimLatitude: 41°40'11.14"N; verbatimLongitude: 27°26'32.75"E; Identification: identificationID: esoguent-th-ıd- 78; Event: eventDate: 05/27/2002

Type status: Other material. Occurrence: sex: 1 male, 2 male pharate adult, 3 females pharate adult; lifeStage: 3 pupae, 12 larvae; Taxon: scientificName: Simulium (Eusimulium) velutinum (Santos Abreu, 1922); kingdom: Animalia; phylum: Arthropoda; class: Insecta; order: Diptera; family: Simuliidae; genus: Simulium; subgenus: Eusimulium; scientificNameAuthorship: (Santos Abreu, 1922); Location: continent: Europe; country: Turkey; stateProvince: Kırklareli; county: Üsküp; locationRemarks: 40; verbatimLatitude: 41°44'42.71"N; verbatimLongitude: 27°24'13.09"E; Identification: identificationID: esoguent-th-ıd- 79; Event: eventDate: 05/27/2002

Type status: Other material. Occurrence: sex: 1 male pharate adult, 2 females pharate adult; lifeStage: 6 pupae, 4 larvae / 6 pupae, 12 larvae,; Taxon: scientificName: Simulium (Eusimulium) velutinum (Santos Abreu, 1922); kingdom: Animalia; phylum: Arthropoda; class: Insecta; order: Diptera; family: Simuliidae; genus: Simulium; subgenus: Eusimulium; scientificNameAuthorship: (Santos Abreu, 1922); Location: continent: Europe; country: Turkey; stateProvince: Edirne; county: Lalapaşa; locationRemarks: 53; verbatimLatitude: 41°58'26.47"N; verbatimLongitude: 27°0'28.78"E; Identification: identificationID: esoguent-th-ıd- 80; Event: eventDate: 28.05.2002 / 23.04.2005

Type status: Other material. Occurrence: sex: 2 males pharate adult, 3 females pharate adult; lifeStage: 8 pupae, 6 larvae; Taxon: scientificName: Simulium (Eusimulium) velutinum (Santos Abreu, 1922); kingdom: Animalia; phylum: Arthropoda; class: Insecta; order: Diptera; family: Simuliidae; genus: Simulium; subgenus: Eusimulium; scientificNameAuthorship: (Santos Abreu, 1922); Location: continent: Europe; country: Turkey; stateProvince: Edirne; county: Lalapaşa; locationRemarks: 54; verbatimLatitude: 41°55'44.34"N; verbatimLongitude: 26°51'44.57"E; Identification: identificationID: esoguent-th-ıd- 81; Event: eventDate: 05/28/2002

Type status: Other material. Occurrence: sex: 1 male pharate adult, 2 females pharate adult; lifeStage: 7 pupae, 9 larvae; Taxon: scientificName: Simulium (Eusimulium) velutinum (Santos Abreu, 1922); kingdom: Animalia; phylum: Arthropoda; class: Insecta; order: Diptera; family: Simuliidae; genus: Simulium; subgenus: Eusimulium; scientificNameAuthorship: (Santos Abreu, 1922); Location: continent: Europe; country: Turkey; stateProvince: Edirne; county: Keşan; locationRemarks: 70; verbatimLatitude: 41°5'0.44"N; verbatimLongitude: 26°32'11.32"E; Identification: identificationID: esoguent-th-ıd- 82; Event: eventDate: 06/01/2002

Type status: Other material. Occurrence: sex: 2 males pharate adult; lifeStage: 5 pupae, 7 larvae; Taxon: scientificName: Simulium (Eusimulium) velutinum (Santos Abreu, 1922); kingdom: Animalia; phylum: Arthropoda; class: Insecta; order: Diptera; family: Simuliidae; genus: Simulium; subgenus: Eusimulium; scientificNameAuthorship: (Santos Abreu, 1922); Location: continent: Europe; country: Turkey; stateProvince: Çanakkale; county: Gelibolu; locationRemarks: 90; verbatimLatitude: 40°26'2.76"N; verbatimLongitude: 26°33'22.85"E; Identification: identificationID: esoguent-th-ıd- 83; Event: eventDate: 06/05/2002

Type status: Other material. Occurrence: sex: 2 males pharate adult, 2 females pharate adult; lifeStage: 6 pupae, 8 larvae; Taxon: scientificName: Simulium (Eusimulium) velutinum (Santos Abreu, 1922); kingdom: Animalia; phylum: Arthropoda; class: Insecta; order: Diptera; family: Simuliidae; genus: Simulium; subgenus: Eusimulium; scientificNameAuthorship: (Santos Abreu, 1922); Location: continent: Europe; country: Turkey; stateProvince: Çanakkale; county: Gelibolu; locationRemarks: 91; verbatimLatitude: 40°24'36.21"N; verbatimLongitude: 26°30'21.36"E; Identification: identificationID: esoguent-th-ıd- 84; Event: eventDate: 06/05/2002

Type status: Other material. Occurrence: sex: 1 male pharate adult; lifeStage: 6 pupae, 9 larvae; Taxon: scientificName: Simulium (Eusimulium) velutinum (Santos Abreu, 1922); kingdom: Animalia; phylum: Arthropoda; class: Insecta; order: Diptera; family: Simuliidae; genus: Simulium; subgenus: Eusimulium; scientificNameAuthorship: (Santos Abreu, 1922); Location: continent: Europe; country: Turkey; stateProvince: Çanakkale; county: Gelibolu; locationRemarks: 92; verbatimLatitude: 40°22'47.18"N; verbatimLongitude: 26°27'34.33"E; Identification: identificationID: esoguent-th-ıd- 85; Event: eventDate: 06/05/2002

Type status: Other material. Occurrence: sex: 2 males pharate adult; lifeStage: 5 pupae, 3 larvae; Taxon: scientificName: Simulium (Eusimulium) velutinum (Santos Abreu, 1922); kingdom: Animalia; phylum: Arthropoda; class: Insecta; order: Diptera; family: Simuliidae; genus: Simulium; subgenus: Eusimulium; scientificNameAuthorship: (Santos Abreu, 1922); Location: continent: Europe; country: Turkey; stateProvince: Tekirdağ; county: Kumbağ; locationRemarks: 108; verbatimLatitude: 40°47'52.99"N; verbatimLongitude: 27°21'48.85"E; Identification: identificationID: esoguent-th-ıd- 86; Event: eventDate: 06/08/2002

Notes

Simulium velutinum occurs in most of Europe but is especially common in the Mediterranean subregion from the Canary Islands (type locality) to Israel and Jordan ( Crosskey and Malicky 2001). According to Kazancı and Ertunç (2008), S. velutinum also inhabits southwestern Anatolia. Its existence in Turkish Thrace is, therefore, expected. Identification of this species is most reliably based on genitalia: the ventral plate of the male is smaller and more triangular and the spermatheca of the female is without the usual sclerotized nipple-like extension that is found in the other members of the S. aureum group.