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Issue: Vol. 5: 10 June 2011
Type: Article
Published: 2011-06-10
DOI: 10.11646/zoosymposia.5.1.18
Page range: 244–254
Abstract views: 135
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Morphological and ecological features of Drusus larvae from the D. bosnicus Group on the Balkan Peninsula with description of the larva of Drusus klapaleki Marinković-Gospodnetić, 1971

Department of Biology, Faculty of Science, University of Zagreb, Rooseveltov trg 6, 10000 Zagreb, Croatia (Group for Systematic Zoology & Entomology)
Department of Biology, Faculty of Science, University of Zagreb, Rooseveltov trg 6, 10000 Zagreb, Croatia (Group for Systematic Zoology & Entomology)
Faculty of Science and Education, University of Mostar, Matica hrvatska bb, 88 000 Mostar, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Department of Hydrobiology, University of Natural Resources Life Sciences, Max Emanuelstraße 17, A-1180 Wien, Austria
Faculty of Forestry, University of Zagreb, Svetošimunska 25, 10002 Zagreb, Croatia
Department of Geology, Faculty of Science, University of Zagreb, Horvatovac 102a, 10000 Zagreb, Croatia
Department of Limnology, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria
Drusus larval description morphology Balkan Peninsula

Abstract

Drusus klapaleki Marinković-Gospodnetić, 1971, is distributed in central Bosnia and Herzegovina and it belongs to the D. bosnicus Group. In the Balkan Peninsula, the D. bosnicus Group consists of 9 taxa with allopatric distribution. This study has 2 objectives. One is to describe the morphological characters of the Drusus klapaleki larva. Another objective is to find certain morphological and ecological features to larvae of the species belonging to the D. bosnicus Group from the Balkan Peninsula.