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Issue: Vol. 2148 No. 1: 3 Jul. 2009
Type: Articles
Published: 2009-07-03
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.2148.1.3
Page range: 39–48
Abstract views: 91
PDF downloaded: 1

Taxonomic revision of Rhyacophila aquitanica (Trichoptera: Rhyacophilidae), based on molecular and morphological evidence and change of taxon status of Rhyacophila aquitanica ssp. carpathica to Rhyacophila carpathica stat. n.

Molecular Biology Center, Institute of Experimental Interdisciplinary Research, Babeş-Bolyai University, Str. Treboniu Laurian 42, Cluj, Romania
Zoological Museum Amsterdam, Plantage Middenlaan 64, 1018 DH Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Department of Taxonomy and Ecology, Faculty of Biology and Geology, Babeş-Bolyai University, Str. Clinicilor 5-7, Cluj, Romania
Molecular Biology Center, Institute of Experimental Interdisciplinary Research, Babeş-Bolyai University, Str. Treboniu Laurian 42, Cluj, Romania
Trichoptera allopatric speciation sister species Massif Central Carpathians mountain species

Abstract

A taxonomic revision of Rhyacophila aquitanica carpathica Botoşaneanu, 1995, is proposed based on molecular results and previously described morphological differences. Genitalia of R. aquitanica McLachlan, 1879, and Rhyacophila carpathica Botoşaneanu stat. n. are redrawn here to facilitate the distinction of the two entities. While the morphological and ecological characteristics of the two species show many similarities, the nucleotide sequences of the two species are very different, even when compared to those of Rhyacophila tristis Pictet, 1834, suggesting a distant allopatric speciation event.

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