Hasan Koç

External Morphology of Eggs of Tipula (Lunatipula) decolor, Tipula (Lunatipula) dedecor, and Tipula (Acutipula) latifurca (Diptera: Tipulidae)

Abstract External morphology of eggs of Tipula (Lunatipula) decolor Mannheims, Tipula (Lunatipula) dedecor Loew, and Tipula (Acutipula) latifurca Vermoolen were studied with both light and scanning electron microscopy. Mating pairs of these species were collected and maintained under laboratory conditions. Eggs were laid singly and were usually well separated from each other in cotton fiber batting. Eggs of these species are oval and black. The surface of the egg of T. decolor was covered by chorionic protrusions of similar size, and there was a single micropylar opening at the anterior end of egg. The egg surface of T. dedecor was covered with low protrusions with sharp tips, and there were numerous micropylar openings at the anterior end of egg. The egg surface of T. latifurca was smooth and lacked chorionic protrusions, and the anterior end of egg has a disc-shaped structure formed by coiled terminal filament.

FOUR NEW SPECIES OF LIMONIIDAE (DIPTERA, NEMATOCERA) FROM THE INNER-WEST ANATOLIAN SUBREGION OF TURKEY

Abstract Four new species of Limoniidae (Diptera) are described from the Inner-West Anatolian subregion of Turkey (provinces of Afyonkarahisar, Kütahya and Uşak), and their male genitalia are illustrated for Ellipteroides (Protogonomyia) murati sp. nov., Molophilus (s.str.) aktashi sp. nov., Molophilus (s.str.) hasbenli sp. nov. and Orimarga (s.str.) attautena sp. nov. Characteristic features of the habitats of each species in the localities in which they were collected are given.

New moth flies (Diptera: Psychodidae: Psychodinae) from Turkey

Specimens of moth flies (Diptera: Psychodidae: Psychodinae) were sampled in southwest Anatolia and the European part of Turkey between 2003 and 2009. Samples contained nine species new to science: Ulomyia asiaminorica sp. n., Pneumia pellucida sp. n., Berdeniella turcica sp. n., B. aktashi sp. n., Clytocerus thracicus sp. n., Jungiella afyonica sp. n., J. geniculatoides sp. n., J. barlasi sp. n., and Telmatoscopus remotus sp.n. The new species are described and illustrated. Distributional data for a total of 45 species are provided. 63 species of Psychodinae are now known to occur in Turkey.

The Tipulidae fauna of southwestern Turkey

Abstract A total of 3091 Tipulidae was collected in the provinces of Antalya, Aydın, Burdur, Denizli, Isparta and Muğla between 2003 and 2006, comprising altogther 63 species of the genera Dolichopeza, Nephrotoma and Tipula. Tipula (Lunatipula) zimini semiopaca Savchenko, 1964, is new for Turkey.

Two new species of Tipula (Lunatipula) Edwards (Diptera: Tipulidae) from Turkey

Abstract Two new species in the acuminata group of subgenus Tipula (Lunatipula), Tipula (Lunatipula) oosterbroeki sp. n. and T (L) jaroslavi sp. n., were described and illustrated from Southwest part of Asian Turkey.