The larvae of Hydropsyche rhadamanthys Malicky 2001 and Hydropsyche sarpedon Malicky 2001 (Trichoptera: Hydropsychidae), endemics of Crete (South Aegean, Greece), with notes on their ecology
Author
Karaouzas, Ioannis
text
Zootaxa
2016
4097
4
557
566
journal article
10.11646/zootaxa.4097.4.7
1464e9e7-5533-4cf8-856c-80e65c14f6c2
1175-5326
261045
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Hydropsyche sarpedon
.
Crete
:
Kakopteros
,
23º45’E
,
35º24’N
,
427 m
, 5 fifth-instar
larvae
,
18.x.2012
;
Papadiana
,
23º50’E
,
35º24’N
,
280 m
, 5 fifth-instar
larvae
,
18.x.2012
;
Moni Preveli
(
Megas Potamos
),
24°28'E
,
39°24'N
,
47 m
,
1 ♂
adult
,
19.x.2012
;
Mesavlia
,
23º44’E
,
35º24’N
,
493 m
, 6 fifth-instar
larvae
,
2 ♂
&
1 ♀
pupae
,
20.viii.2015
;
Sirikari
,
23º37’E
,
35º24’N
,
432 m
, 15 fifth-instar
larvae
,
7 ♂
&
6 ♀
pupae
;
Sasalos
,
23º42’E
,
35º24’N
,
339 m
, 17 fifth-instar
larvae
,
20.viii.2015
.
All material leg. Ioannis Karaouzas and all specimens are deposited in the collection of I. Karaouzas (Athens, Greece).
Diagnostic features.
Characterisation of the larvae was based on the presence or absence of gills on abdominal segment VII, pattern of the head (i.e., shape and colour of the frontoclypeal apotome) and submentum form of the last instar larvae (5th instar). Submentum, mentum, ventral apotome, and gular sclerite are names used for the same structure throughout the literature. Here, the commonly used name of submentum is employed (
Zamora-Muñoz
et al
. 1995
;
De Pietro 1999
;
Waringer & Graf 2011
). Terminology of larval characters by
Schefter & Wiggins (1986)
and
De Pietro (1999)
is used. Photographs of the larvae were taken through a stereomicroscope (Olympus SZX7) with a built-in camera (Infinity 1).