Black flies (Diptera: Simuliidae) of Turkish Thrace, with a new record for Turkey Sirin, Uemit Davut Caliskan, Hakan Sahin, Yalcin Biodiversity Data Journal 2015 3 4834 4834 Djafarov, 1954 Djafarov 1954 Insecta Simuliidae Prosimulium CoL Animalia Prosimulium rachiliense Diptera 0 4834 Arthropoda species rachiliense  Materials  Type status: Other material. Occurrence: lifeStage: 43 pupae, 6 larvae; Taxon: scientificName: Prosimuliumrachiliense Djafarov,1954; kingdom: Animalia; phylum: Arthropoda; class: Insecta; order: Diptera; family: Simuliidae; genus: Prosimulium; scientificNameAuthorship: Djafarov,1954; Location: continent: Europe; country: Turkey; stateProvince: Kirklareli; county: Merkez; locationRemarks: 46; verbatimLatitude: 41°49'48.43"N; verbatimLongitude: 27°10'42.01"E; Identification: identificationID: esoguent-th-id-1; Event: eventDate: 04/23/2005 Type status: Other material. Occurrence: lifeStage: 33 pupae, 6 larvae; Taxon: scientificName: Prosimuliumrachiliense Djafarov,1954; kingdom: Animalia; phylum: Arthropoda; class: Insecta; order: Diptera; family: Simuliidae; genus: Prosimulium; scientificNameAuthorship: Djafarov,1954; Location: continent: Europe; country: Turkey; stateProvince: Kirklareli; county: Kofcaz; locationRemarks: 49; verbatimLatitude: 41°55'33.95"N; verbatimLongitude: 27°9'48.15"E; Identification: identificationID: esoguent-th-id-2; Event: eventDate: 04/23/2005 Type status: Other material. Occurrence: lifeStage: 6 pupae, 1 larvae; Taxon: scientificName: Prosimuliumrachiliense Djafarov,1954; kingdom: Animalia; phylum: Arthropoda; class: Insecta; order: Diptera; family: Simuliidae; genus: Prosimulium; scientificNameAuthorship: Djafarov,1954; Location: continent: Europe; country: Turkey; stateProvince: Kirklareli; county: Kofcaz; locationRemarks: 50; verbatimLatitude: 41°56'53.66"N; verbatimLongitude: 27°9'42.23"E; Identification: identificationID: esoguent-th-id-3; Event: eventDate: 04/23/2005 Type status: Other material. Occurrence: lifeStage: 11 pupae, 6 larvae; Taxon: scientificName: Prosimuliumrachiliense Djafarov,1954; kingdom: Animalia; phylum: Arthropoda; class: Insecta; order: Diptera; family: Simuliidae; genus: Prosimulium; scientificNameAuthorship: Djafarov,1954; Location: continent: Europe; country: Turkey; stateProvince: Kirklareli; county: Kofcaz; locationRemarks: 51; verbatimLatitude: 41°56'22.44"N; verbatimLongitude: 27°5'33.09"E; Identification: identificationID: esoguent-th-id-4; Event: eventDate: 04/23/2005 Type status: Other material. Occurrence: lifeStage: 12 pupae, 1 larvae; Taxon: scientificName: Prosimuliumrachiliense Djafarov,1954; kingdom: Animalia; phylum: Arthropoda; class: Insecta; order: Diptera; family: Simuliidae; genus: Prosimulium; scientificNameAuthorship: Djafarov,1954; Location: continent: Europe; country: Turkey; stateProvince: Edirne; county: Lalapasa; locationRemarks: 53; verbatimLatitude: 41°58'26.47"N; verbatimLongitude: 27°0'28.78"E; Identification: identificationID: esoguent-th-id-5; Event: eventDate: 04/23/2005 Type status: Other material. Occurrence: lifeStage: 4 pupae, 1 larvae; Taxon: scientificName: Prosimuliumrachiliense Djafarov,1954; kingdom: Animalia; phylum: Arthropoda; class: Insecta; order: Diptera; family: Simuliidae; genus: Prosimulium; scientificNameAuthorship: Djafarov,1954; Location: continent: Europe; country: Turkey; stateProvince: Tekirdag; county: Sarkoey; locationRemarks: 82; verbatimLatitude: 40°41'28.95"N; verbatimLongitude: 27°5'45.01"E; Identification: identificationID: esoguent-th-id-6; Event: eventDate: 04/24/2005 Type status: Other material. Occurrence: lifeStage: 4 pupae, 2 larvae; Taxon: scientificName: Prosimuliumrachiliense Djafarov,1954; kingdom: Animalia; phylum: Arthropoda; class: Insecta; order: Diptera; family: Simuliidae; genus: Prosimulium; scientificNameAuthorship: Djafarov,1954; Location: continent: Europe; country: Turkey; stateProvince: Tekirdag; county: Sarkoey; locationRemarks: 83; verbatimLatitude: 40°46'21.52"N; verbatimLongitude: 27°3'32.09"E; Identification: identificationID: esoguent-th-id-7; Event: eventDate: 04/24/2005 Type status: Other material. Occurrence: lifeStage: 3 larvae; Taxon: scientificName: Prosimuliumrachiliense Djafarov,1954; kingdom: Animalia; phylum: Arthropoda; class: Insecta; order: Diptera; family: Simuliidae; genus: Prosimulium; scientificNameAuthorship: Djafarov,1954; Location: continent: Europe; country: Turkey; stateProvince: Kirklareli; county: Saray; locationRemarks: 126; verbatimLatitude: 41°26'20.97"N; verbatimLongitude: 28°4'43.83"E; Identification: identificationID: esoguent-th-id-8; Event: eventDate: 04/22/2005 Type status: Other material. Occurrence: lifeStage: 14 pupae, 9 larvae; Taxon: scientificName: Prosimuliumrachiliense Djafarov,1954; kingdom: Animalia; phylum: Arthropoda; class: Insecta; order: Diptera; family: Simuliidae; genus: Prosimulium; scientificNameAuthorship: Djafarov,1954; Location: continent: Europe; country: Turkey; stateProvince: Kirklareli; county: Kofcaz; locationRemarks: 127; verbatimLatitude: 41°55'2.35"N; verbatimLongitude: 27°7'37.70"E; Identification: identificationID: esoguent-th-id-9; Event: eventDate: 04/23/2005 Type status: Other material. Occurrence: lifeStage: 38 pupae, 7 larvae; Taxon: scientificName: Prosimuliumrachiliense Djafarov,1954; kingdom: Animalia; phylum: Arthropoda; class: Insecta; order: Diptera; family: Simuliidae; genus: Prosimulium; scientificNameAuthorship: Djafarov,1954; Location: continent: Europe; country: Turkey; stateProvince: Edirne; county: Lalapasa; locationRemarks: 128; verbatimLatitude: 41°50'8.01"N; verbatimLongitude: 26°43'49.22"E; Identification: identificationID: esoguent-th-id-10; Event: eventDate: 04/23/2005  Notes This taxon is distributed mainly in Caucasia, Transcaucasia and the Balkan countries including the island of Rhodes, and its occurrence in Turkey has been known previously ( Crosskey and Zwick 2007). The first record from Anatolia was by  Kazanciand Clergue-Gazeau (1990), as P. pronevitschae, from three different lotic systems. Crosskey and Howard (2004)synonymized pronevitschae with rachiliense. Crosskey and Zwick (2007)reported this species from seven sites in northwestern and southeastern Anatolia. We identified our material as P. rachiliense, using the illustrations and descriptions by Terteryan (1968)and Crosskey and Malicky (2001). Adler and Sirin(2014)chromosomally showed that populations in western Turkey are a cytoform of P. rachiliense, probably different from true P. rachiliense. We compared our larvae and pupae with the material in the study of Adler and Sirin(2014), and did not find structural differences. 2005-04-23 Turkey 41.83012 Turkey 1 27.178335 0 4834 49 6 43 Other material 2005-04-23 Turkey 41.926098 Turkey 1 27.163374 0 4834 39 6 33 Other material 2005-04-23 Turkey 41.94824 Turkey 1 27.16173 0 4834 7 1 6 Other material 2005-04-23 Turkey 41.939568 Turkey 1 27.092525 0 4834 17 6 11 Other material 2005-04-23 Turkey 41.97402 Turkey 1 27.007994 0 4834 13 1 12 Other material 2005-04-24 Turkey 40.691376 Turkey 1 27.095837 0 4834 5 1 4 Other material 2005-04-24 Turkey 40.772644 Turkey 1 27.058912 0 4834 6 2 4 Other material 2005-04-22 Turkey 41.43916 Turkey 1 28.078842 0 4834 3 3 Other material 2005-04-23 Turkey 41.91732 Turkey 1 27.127138 0 4834 23 9 14 Other material 2005-04-23 Turkey 41.835556 Turkey 1 26.73034 0 4834 45 7 38 Other material