Black flies (Diptera: Simuliidae) of Turkish Thrace, with a new record for Turkey.
BACKGROUND
This paper includes 2742 specimens of 18 species of black flies (Diptera: Simuliidae) collected from 132 lotic sites in Turkish Thrace, the European part of Turkey, in the early summer of 2002 and 2003 and the spring of 2005 and 2006.


CONCLUSIONS
All species are recorded from this region for the first time, and Metacnephianigra (Rubtsov, 1940) is a new record for Turkey. Distributional and taxonomical remarks are given for each species.
Eskişehir Osmangazi University, Faculty of Science and Art, Biology Department, Eskişehir, Turkey.
Ümit Davut
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Şirin
Eskişehir Osmangazi University, Faculty of Science and Art, Biology Department, Eskişehir, Turkey.
Hakan
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Çalışkan
Eskişehir Osmangazi University, Faculty of Science and Art, Biology Department, Eskişehir, Turkey.
Yalçın
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Şahin
Black flies; Thrace; Turkey; biodiversity