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Issue: Vol. 2031 No. 1: 9 Mar. 2009
Type: Article
Published: 2009-03-09
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.2031.1.4
Page range: 53–62
Abstract views: 134
PDF downloaded: 1

A new feeding group within larval Drusinae (Trichoptera: Limnephilidae): the Drusus alpinus Group sensu Schmid, 1956, including larval descriptions of Drusus franzi Schmid, 1956, and Drusus alpinus (Meyer-Dür, 1875)

Institute of Hydrobiology and Aquatic Ecology Management, University of Natural Resources and Applied Life Sciences, Max Emanuelstraße 17, 1180 Vienna, Austria
Department of Freshwater Ecology, University of Vienna, Althanstraße 14, 1090 Vienna, Austria
Department of Entomology, University of Minnesota, 219 Hodson Hall, 1980 Folwell Ave, Saint Paul, MN 55108, USA
Trichoptera identification distribution ecology mitochondrial DNA

Abstract

This paper presents a description of the hitherto unknown larvae of Drusus franzi Schmid, 1956, and Drusus alpinus (Meyer-Dür, 1875). Information on the morphological and genetic identification of both species is given, and the most important diagnostic features are illustrated. Their systematic position within the genus Drusus is affirmed and zoogeographical and ecological notes are added.

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