Türkiye Heteroptera Dergisi
Yazarlar: Küçükbasmacı, İ.
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Anahtar Kelimeler:Heteroptera,Hydrometra stagnorum,New record,Kastamonu,Turkey
Özet: Heteroptera, the majority of which are terrestrial is a worldwide distributed group of insects inhabiting both terrestrial and aquatic habitats and has an important ecological role. The two infraorders, Gerromorpha and Nepomorpha, including the aquatic and semi-aquatic members of the suborder Heteroptera. The members of Hydrometridae family are one of the most distinctive heteropteran groups with their small stick-like insects with an elongate head and exceedingly slender legs. It has been reported 14 taxa from the infraordo Nepomorpha and Gerromorpha in Kastamonu so far. In this study, a new faunistic record is shown for Kastamonu. Also, morphological diagnosis, habitat, distribution in Turkey and Palearctic data of Hydrometra stagnorum (Linnaeus, 1758) (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Hydrometridae) are given.