TY - JOUR TI - CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE BLACKFLY FAUNA (DIPTERA, SIMULIIDAE) OF TÜRKİYE WITH A NEW RECORD FROM THE WESTERN BLACK SEA REGION AB - Despite the rich biodiversity potential of Anatolia, the blackfly fauna of Türkiye has not been fully explored. In the present study, a sampling study for blackflies were performed in Western Black Sea Region in spring seasons from 2016 to 2018 and 15 blackfly species from 73 different lotic habitats have been reported. Simulium (Nevermannia) carthusiense Grenier & Dorier, 1959 is new for Turkish fauna. Ten species have been recorded from the region for the first time. Distributional remarks in Türkiye and the world are given along with brief taxonomic evaluations for each species.  AU - SIRIN, DAVUT ÜMIT AU - FIDAN, EBRU CEREN DO - 10.23902/trkjnat.1113991 PY - 2022 JO - Trakya University Journal of Natural Sciences VL - 23 IS - Special Issue: Biodiversity of Insect SN - 2147-0294 SP - 31 EP - 39 DB - TRDizin UR - http://search/yayin/detay/1105480 ER -