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Issue: Vol. 4057 No. 3: 11 Dec. 2015
Type: Article
Published: 2015-12-11
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4057.3.10
Page range: 444–450
Abstract views: 45
PDF downloaded: 1

The larva of Rhyacophila balcanica Radovanovic 1953 (Trichoptera: Rhyacophilidae) with notes on ecology

Institute of Marine Biological Recourses and Inland Waters, Hellenic Centre for Marine Research, 46.7km Athens-Sounio Av., 19013 Anavissos, Attica, Greece.
Institute of Hydrobiology and Aquatic Ecology Management, University of Natural Resources and Applied Life Sciences, Vienna, Austria.
Department of Biology, Faculty of Science, University of Zagreb, Croatia.
Elektroprojekt d.d., Civil and Architectural Engineering Department, Environmental Protection and Waste Management, Alexandera von Humboldta 4, 10000 Zagreb, Croatia.
Department of Limnology and Oceanography, University of Vienna, Althanstrasse 14, A-1090 Vienna, Austria.
Trichoptera identification taxonomy description zoogeography Greece Balkan Peninsula

Abstract

x The previously unknown larva of Rhyacophila balcanica Radovanovic 1953 is described. The diagnostic features of the species are listed and illustrated and some information on its ecology and distribution is included. In addition, diagnostic characters for larvae of the known Greek Rhyacophila species are provided.