Thalassomya frauenfeldi Schiner, 1856 (Chironomidae: Telmatogetoninae) A New Record for the Turkish Fauna
Articles > Article · 2012
Authors: Ayşe TAŞDEMİR
JOURNAL OF THE ENTOMOLOGICAL RESEARCH SOCIETY, Journal Indexed in SCI Expanded, International, 2012, vol 14, pp 91-94
Summary
The subfamily Telmatogetoninae and Thalassomya frauenfeldi Schiner, 1856 are reported for the first time from Turkey. The material was sampled as a result of evaluating three benthic samples. The samples were taken within the framework of an environmental impact assessment project conducted in Izmir Bay, western Turkey, in April 2009. As a consequence, the number of subfamilies of Chironomidae known from Turkey has increased to 7.