Abstract
In this revision ten species of the genus Nomisia are diagnosed and taxonomically commented. Of them, five are well established in the previous literature, namely, N. aussereri (L. Koch, 1872), N. exornata (C. L. Koch, 1839), N. ripariensis (O. P.Cambridge, 1872), N. orientalis Dalmas, 1921 and N. palaestina (O. P.Cambridge, 1872). N. recepta (Pavesi, 1880) and N. excerpta (O. P.Cambridge, 1872) are critically compared and re-established. N. excerpta shows wide intra-specific variation, possibly leading to new species. N. conigera (Spassky, 1941) is here synonymized with the recently described N. anatolica Seyyar, Ayyildiz & Topçu, 2009. Finally two new species are described, namely, N. levyi n. sp. and N. peloponnesiaca n. sp. From the above list, only seven species are recorded in Greece, leaving out N. orientalis, N. recepta and N. conigera.References
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