A surprising finding of Ecclisopteryx asterix Malicky, 1979 (Insecta, Trichoptera) in Croatia with notes to DNA barcoding and new distributional data of the subfamily Drusinae
Author
Kladarić, Lidija
Hrvatske vode, Central Water Management Laboratory, Ulica Grada Vukovara 220, 10000 Zagreb, Croatia
Author
Popijač, Aleksandar
Kopački rit Nature Park Public Institution, Mali Sakadaš 1, 31327 Kopačevo, Bilje, Croatia
Author
Hlebec, Dora
Department of Biology, Faculty of Science, University of Zagreb, Rooseveltov trg 6, 10000 Zagreb, Croatia & Zoological Museum Hamburg, Leibniz Institute for the Analysis of Biodiversity Change (LIB), Martin-Luther-King- Platz 3, 20146 Hamburg, Germany
Author
Previšić, Ana
Department of Biology, Faculty of Science, University of Zagreb, Rooseveltov trg 6, 10000 Zagreb, Croatia
Author
Ćuk, Renata
Hrvatske vode, Central Water Management Laboratory, Ulica Grada Vukovara 220, 10000 Zagreb, Croatia
Author
Vučković, Ivan
Elektroprojekt, Alexandera von Humboldta 4, 10000 Zagreb, Croatia * Corresponding author: mladen. kucinic @ biol. pmf. hr
Author
Kučinić, Mladen
Department of Biology, Faculty of Science, University of Zagreb, Rooseveltov trg 6, 10000 Zagreb, Croatia
mladen.kucinic@biol.pmf.hr
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Ecologica Montenegrina
2021
2021-12-14
48
71
85
http://dx.doi.org/10.37828/em.2021.48.11
journal article
10.37828/em.2021.48.11
2336-9744
13250260
2.2. New data on the distribution of
Drusus discolor
in
Croatia
The second recorded species from the genus
Drusus
in this study was
D. discolor
at the spring site of the Čabranka River (
Figure 4
). This finding only confirmed the presence of this species at the investigated site, as it was recorded in previous research (
Previšić & Popijač 2010
). Apart from the spring area of the Čabranka River,
D. discolor
was first found in Croatian fauna in the larval stage in the Mrežnica River (
Habdija 1979
) and in the adult stage at the spring of the Dobra River (
Cerjanec
et al.
2020
). According to the distribution,
D. discolor
most probably has the widest distribution (
Graf
et al.
2021
) among all species of the genus
Drusus
.
The larva is characterized by a very pronounced area with small, thick, yellow hairs on the head in which it collects some organic matter and small invertebrates which it "removes" with especially adapted forelegs with large and strong hairs. According to the feeding
type
, it belongs to the carnivorous caddisflies (
Vitecek
et al
. 2015a
). Both sexes of the adult stage, as well as the larva, are well known and described (
Malicky 2004
;
Vitecek
et al
. 2015a
;
Waringer & Graf 2011
).