A survey on sphingidae (lepidoptera) species of south eastern Turkey with new distributional records

Abstract

This paper provides comments on the Sphingidae species of south eastern Turkey by the field surveys are conducted between in 2015-2017. A total of 15 species are determined as a result of the investigations from Batman, Diyarbakır and Mardin provinces. With this study, the number of sphinx moths increased to 13 in Batman, 14 in Diyarbakır and 8 in Mardin. Among them, 7 species for Batman, 4 species for Diyarbakır and 1 species for Mardin are new record. For each species, original reference, type locality, material examined, distribution in the world and in Turkey, and larval hostplants are given. Adults figures of Smerinthus kindermanni Lederer, 1852; Marumba quercus ([Denis & Schiffermüller], 1775); Rethera komarovi (Christoph, 1885); Macroglossum stellatarum (Linnaeus, 1758); Hyles euphorbiae (Linnaeus, 1758) and H. livornica (Esper, [1780]) are illustrated.

New distribution reports of Heterocera (Lepidoptera) from Batman, Hakkari, Mardin, Şanlıurfa and Şırnak provinces of Turkey

“…Aykal [12] carried out studies on the Geometridae (Lepidoptera) fauna of Hasankeyf district of Batman and mentioned about 67 species. Seven [13] provided comments on the Sphingidae species of south-eastern Turkey by the field surveys conducted between 2015-2017 and determined 15 species. The present paper deals with 102 species of moths, collected from the Southeast and East Anatolia Regions of Turkey.…”

Rediscovery of Clarina syriaca (Lederer, 1855) (Lepidoptera, Sphingidae, Macroglossinae) in Cyprus after 70 years; with notes on its biology and early life history from the Levant

“…In southern Turkey, this local species appears to have spread farther west in recent years and can now be found as far as Antalya (Pittaway 2021). Farther east, it is replaced by its closely related sister species, Clarina kotschyi (Kollar, 1849) (Pittaway 1982), which occurs in southeastern Turkey (Danner et al 1998a(Danner et al , 1998bSeven 2020), Mesopotamia (Wiltshire 1957) and across the Iranian plateau (Fig. 1) (Brandt 1938;Barou 1967;Ebert 1976;Ghasemi et al 2009).…”