Epyris niger Westwood, 1832

Epyris niger Westwood, 1832 ( Fig. 1)

Material examined: 2♀♀, 2♂♂, TÜRKİYE: Samsun, Çarşamba, Bafracalı [ 41°12'43.0"N 36°44'08.3"E], 30 m a.s.l., 14.07.2022, sweep net, leg.: İ. Can. GoogleMaps

Distribution. Egypt, England, Germany, France, Iran, Italy, Hungary, Romania, Türkiye [ Tokat] ( Can, 2022).

Remarks. This species was recorded from a single female specimen from Tokat, Türkiye ( Can, 2022). With this study, it was recorded from Samsun province for the second time in Türkiye. In this study, newly collected specimens of the species were caught on Anethum graveolens L. ( Apiaceae ) flowers with an insect net. While it is known that this species has b een detected only on Atriplex hastatum L. ( Amaranthaceae ) so far ( Gordh & Moczar, 1990), the second plant record of this species is given in this study as Anethum graveolens L. ( Apiaceae ).

Brief description. Female –Body length 4 mm ( Fig. 1A). Body black; apical part of mandible and palpi castaneous ( Fig. 1B & 1E); legs black except apical of tibia and tarsi light castaneous; forewing subhyaline, veins yellowish. Clypeus with high median carina, median lobe rounded. Head slightly elongated, dull, finely leathery, quite densely but not roughly dotted. Eye hairy. Pronotum dorsally dull, punctured less than the head and twice as long as mesonotum, continuous parapsid furrows. Mesoscuto- scutellar suture transverse separated from each other only by a small median carina ( Fig. 1C). Metapectal propodeal complex shiny with three parallel longitudinal carinae, metapostnotal median carina and first metapostnotal lateral carina complete and reaches to transverse posterior carina; spaces between the metapostnotal median carina and the first metapostnotal lateral carina roughly wrinkled ( Fig. 1D). Male –Body length 3.6 mm. morphologically similar to females; The first metapostnotal lateral carina of male in the metapectal- propodeal complex disappear before reaching the transverse posterior carina; mesuscuto- scutellar suture slightly oblique ( Fig. 1F); spaces between the metapostnotal median carina and the first metapostnotal lateral carina weakly wrinkled ( Fig. 1F).