Simulium (Simulium) variegatum Meigen, 1818

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 (Simulium) variegatum Meigen, 1818

Materials

Type status: Other material. Occurrence: lifeStage: 5 pupae, 3 larvae / 2 pupae; Taxon: scientificName: Simulium (Simulium) variegatum Meigen, 1818; kingdom: Animalia; phylum: Arthropoda; class: Insecta; order: Diptera; family: Simuliidae; genus: Simulium; subgenus: Simulium; scientificNameAuthorship: Meigen, 1818; Location: continent: Europe; country: Turkey; stateProvince: Tekirdağ; county: Saray; locationRemarks: 23; verbatimLatitude: 41°28'49.33"N; verbatimLongitude: 27°57'11.84"E; Identification: identificationID: esoguent-th-ıd- 133; Event: eventDate: 24.05.2002 / 09.07.2003 Type status: Other material. Occurrence: lifeStage: 5 pupae, 6 larvae; Taxon: scientificName: Simulium (Simulium) variegatum Meigen, 1818; kingdom: Animalia; phylum: Arthropoda; class: Insecta; order: Diptera; family: Simuliidae; genus: Simulium; subgenus: Simulium; scientificNameAuthorship: Meigen, 1818; Location: continent: Europe; country: Turkey; stateProvince: Tekirdağ; county: Saray; locationRemarks: 24; verbatimLatitude: 41°32'57.72"N; verbatimLongitude: 28°2'32.53"E; Identification: identificationID: esoguent-th-ıd- 134; Event: eventDate: 05/24/2002 Type status: Other material. Occurrence: sex: 1 male; lifeStage: 9 pupae, 6 larvae; Taxon: scientificName: Simulium (Simulium) variegatum Meigen, 1818; kingdom: Animalia; phylum: Arthropoda; class: Insecta; order: Diptera; family: Simuliidae; genus: Simulium; subgenus: Simulium; scientificNameAuthorship: Meigen, 1818; Location: continent: Europe; country: Turkey; stateProvince: Tekirdağ; county: Saray; locationRemarks: 25; verbatimLatitude: 41°33'36.45"N; verbatimLongitude: 28°3'50.97"E; Identification: identificationID: esoguent-th-ıd- 135; Event: eventDate: 05/24/2002 Type status: Other material. Occurrence: lifeStage: 8 pupae, 7 larvae; Taxon: scientificName: Simulium (Simulium) variegatum Meigen, 1818; kingdom: Animalia; phylum: Arthropoda; class: Insecta; order: Diptera; family: Simuliidae; genus: Simulium; subgenus: Simulium; scientificNameAuthorship: Meigen, 1818; Location: continent: Europe; country: Turkey; stateProvince: Kırklareli; county: Kıyıköy; locationRemarks: 26; verbatimLatitude: 41°38'59.36"N; verbatimLongitude: 27°58'2.28"E; Identification: identificationID: esoguent-th-ıd- 136; Event: eventDate: 05/24/2002 Type status: Other material. Occurrence: lifeStage: 6 pupae, 4 larvae; Taxon: scientificName: Simulium (Simulium) variegatum Meigen, 1818; kingdom: Animalia; phylum: Arthropoda; class: Insecta; order: Diptera; family: Simuliidae; genus: Simulium; subgenus: Simulium; scientificNameAuthorship: Meigen, 1818; Location: continent: Europe; country: Turkey; stateProvince: Kırklareli; county: Pınarhisar; locationRemarks: 31; verbatimLatitude: 41°44'18.42"N; verbatimLongitude: 27°37'36.24"E; Identification: identificationID: esoguent-th-ıd- 137; Event: eventDate: 05/25/2002 Type status: Other material. Occurrence: lifeStage: 4 pupae, 7 larvae / 1 pupae; Taxon: scientificName: Simulium (Simulium) variegatum Meigen, 1818; kingdom: Animalia; phylum: Arthropoda; class: Insecta; order: Diptera; family: Simuliidae; genus: Simulium; subgenus: Simulium; scientificNameAuthorship: Meigen, 1818; Location: continent: Europe; country: Turkey; stateProvince: Kırklareli; county: Pınarhisar; locationRemarks: 32; verbatimLatitude: 41°46'52.34"N; verbatimLongitude: 27°42'18.82"E; Identification: identificationID: esoguent-th-ıd- 138; Event: eventDate: 25.05.2002 / 08.07.2003 Type status: Other material. Occurrence: lifeStage: 3 pupae, 1 larvae; Taxon: scientificName: Simulium (Simulium) variegatum Meigen, 1818; kingdom: Animalia; phylum: Arthropoda; class: Insecta; order: Diptera; family: Simuliidae; genus: Simulium; subgenus: Simulium; scientificNameAuthorship: Meigen, 1818; Location: continent: Europe; country: Turkey; stateProvince: Kırklareli; county: Üsküp; locationRemarks: 41; verbatimLatitude: 41°48'7.98"N; verbatimLongitude: 27°27'14.63"E; Identification: identificationID: esoguent-th-ıd- 139; Event: eventDate: 05/27/2002 Type status: Other material. Occurrence: sex: 1 female; lifeStage: 5 pupae, 3 larvae; Taxon: scientificName: Simulium (Simulium) variegatum Meigen, 1818; kingdom: Animalia; phylum: Arthropoda; class: Insecta; order: Diptera; family: Simuliidae; genus: Simulium; subgenus: Simulium; scientificNameAuthorship: Meigen, 1818; Location: continent: Europe; country: Turkey; stateProvince: Kırklareli; county: Kofçaz; locationRemarks: 52; verbatimLatitude: 41°56'50.96"N; verbatimLongitude: 27°3'41.00"E; Identification: identificationID: esoguent-th-ıd- 140; Event: eventDate: 05/28/2002 Type status: Other material. Occurrence: lifeStage: 6 pupae, 5 larvae; Taxon: scientificName: Simulium (Simulium) variegatum Meigen, 1818; kingdom: Animalia; phylum: Arthropoda; class: Insecta; order: Diptera; family: Simuliidae; genus: Simulium; subgenus: Simulium; scientificNameAuthorship: Meigen, 1818; Location: continent: Europe; country: Turkey; stateProvince: Tekirdağ; county: Kumbağ; locationRemarks: 106; verbatimLatitude: 40°49'39.01"N; verbatimLongitude: 27°23'8.57"E; Identification: identificationID: esoguent-th-ıd- 141; Event: eventDate: 06/08/2002 Type status: Other material. Occurrence: lifeStage: 4 pupae, 5 larvae; Taxon: scientificName: Simulium (Simulium) variegatum Meigen, 1818; kingdom: Animalia; phylum: Arthropoda; class: Insecta; order: Diptera; family: Simuliidae; genus: Simulium; subgenus: Simulium; scientificNameAuthorship: Meigen, 1818; Location: continent: Europe; country: Turkey; stateProvince: Tekirdağ; county: Kumbağ; locationRemarks: 107; verbatimLatitude: 40°48'27.93"N; verbatimLongitude: 27°23'8.49"E; Identification: identificationID: esoguent-th-ıd- 142; Event: eventDate: 06/08/2002 Type status: Other material. Occurrence: lifeStage: 8 pupae, 3 larvae; Taxon: scientificName: Simulium (Simulium) variegatum Meigen, 1818; kingdom: Animalia; phylum: Arthropoda; class: Insecta; order: Diptera; family: Simuliidae; genus: Simulium; subgenus: Simulium; scientificNameAuthorship: Meigen, 1818; 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- 143; Event: eventDate: 06/08/2002

Notes

The most diagnostic character of Simulium variegatum is the presence of two large thoracic bulges (patagia) near the pupal gill bases. We observed this feature in all specimens collected from 11 sites. This species is widely distributed in Turkey ( Crosskey and Zwick 2007) and also common over most of Europe, western Asia and North Africa ( Adler and Crosskey 2015).