A study on the Coreoidea (Hemiptera: Heteroptera) fauna of Çorum province, Turkey

In this study, as a result of the identification of the material collected from 39 different localities in Çorum province between 2019 and 2021, 3 species belonging to 2 genera of the Alydidae family, 13 species belonging to 10 genera of the Coreidae family, 10 species belonging to 7 genera of the Rhopalidae family and 2 species belonging to 1 genus of the Stenocephalidae family have been recorded from the environment of Çorum. Of them, 23 species are new records for the Coreoidea fauna of Çorum. While 20 species recorded in the present study originate from Holomediterranean, 3 species from Pontomediterranean, 2 species originate from Irano-Turanian, 1 species from Euro-Siberian, Mediterranean and Nearctic region have distribution. As a result of according to our observations in the field, a total of 21 taxon at genus level from 15 plant families were identified in relation to Coreoidea species. The material is deposited in the collection of Amasya University, Faculty of Science and Arts, Department of Biology (Amasya, Turkey).