Original scientific paper
First data on caddisfly (Insecta, Trichoptera) fauna of peatlands in Croatia
Ana Previšić
orcid.org/0000-0002-0332-7522
; Division of Zoology, Department of Biology, Faculty of Science, University of Zagreb,Rooseveltov trg 6, 10000 Zagreb, Croatia
Andreja Brigić
orcid.org/0000-0002-1012-7166
; Division of Zoology, Department of Biology, Faculty of Science, University of Zagreb,Rooseveltov trg 6, 10000 Zagreb, Croatia
Zorana Sedlar
orcid.org/0000-0003-4406-2249
; Division of Botany, Department of Biology, Faculty of Science, University of Zagreb,Marulićev trg 20/II, 10000 Zagreb, Croatia
Renata Šoštarić
; Division of Botany, Department of Biology, Faculty of Science, University of Zagreb,Marulićev trg 20/II, 10000 Zagreb, Croatia
Abstract
Peatlands in Croatia are rare, small in size and isolated habitats. Due to the abandonment of traditional and management practices, and particularly to the progressive vegetation succession, they are critically endangered. Caddisfly faunistics and ecology of peatlands in Croatia have never been studied. A total of seven caddisfly taxa were collected in this study at three different peatlands; Dubravica bog, Đon močvar bog and Jarak fen. The collection of Adicella reducta (McLachlan, 1865) represents a new record for the Croatian caddisfly fauna. Additionally, two tyrphophilous species, Hagenella clathrata (Kolenati, 1848) and Rhadicoleptus alpestris (Kolenati, 1848), were recorded for the first time in Croatia since an imprecise literature record from 1935 and two previous findings (from 1929 and 1997), respectively. Caddisfly larvae were also collected in two peatlands, belonging to the genera Beraea Stephens, 1836 and Ernodes Wallengren, 1891, which are oft en collected at peatbogs in larval stages.
Keywords
Dubravica bog; Đon močvar bog; Jarak fen; tyrphophilous species; Adicella reducta; new record
Hrčak ID:
112707
URI
Publication date:
31.12.2013.
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