Kuyucuk Gölü Ramsar Alanının Hydrophilidae ve Helophoridae (Coleoptera: Polyphaga) Faunası
Keywords:
Hydrophilidae, Helophoridae, fauna, Lake Kuyucuk, Ramsar Site.Abstract
It has been evaluated Hydrophilidae and Helophoridae (Coleoptera: Polyphaga) species that were collected in Kuyucuk Lake which is
one of the 13 Ramsar Sites (Ramsar Convention on Wetlands), Turkey in 2010-2011. In the research area; there have been determined 8
species belonging to the family Hydrophilidae and 7 species belonging to the family Helophoridae. Laccobius (Dimorpholaccobius)
bipunctatus (Fabricius, 1775), L. (D.) simulatrix d’Orchymont, 1932, Enochrus (Lumetus) quadripunctatus (Herbst, 1797), E. (L.) fuscipennis
(Thomson, 1884), Hydrochara dichroma (Fairmaire, 1892), Hydrobius fuscipes (Linnaeus, 1758), Coelostoma (s. str.) orbiculare (Fabricius,
1775), Berosus (E.) bispina Reiche & Saulcy, 1856,Helophorus hilaris Sharp, 1916, H. brevipalpis Bedel, 1881, H. discrepans Rey, 1885, H.
arvernicus Mulsant, 1846, H. pallidipennis Mulsant and Wachanru, 1852, H. micans (Faldermann, 1835), H. aquaticus (Linnaeus, 1758); all
these species have been recorded for the first time from Ramsar Site Kuyucuk Lake.
