Assemblages of Trichoptera larvae on water moss in the middle reaches of the Yenisei River (Siberia, Russia)
Author
Konovalova, Daria A.
0000-0003-2777-6098
Institute of Biophysics, Federal Research Center “ Krasnoyarsk Science Center ” of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Krasnoyarsk, Russia, & dariakon @ inbox. ru; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0003 - 2777 - 6098
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Author
Kislitsina, Nadezhda I.
0000-0002-1383-2434
Institute of Fundamental Biology and Biotechnology, Siberian Federal University, Krasnoyarsk, Russia, & nadezhda. kislitsina 2016 @ yandex. ru; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0002 - 1383 - 2434 & Krasnoyarsk Branch of the Federal State Budget Scientific Institution “ Russian Federal Research Institute of Fisheries and Oceanography ”, Krasnoyarsk, Russia
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Author
Zotina, Tatiana A.
0000-0002-4792-1582
Institute of Biophysics, Federal Research Center “ Krasnoyarsk Science Center ” of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Krasnoyarsk, Russia, & Institute of Fundamental Biology and Biotechnology, Siberian Federal University, Krasnoyarsk, Russia, & t _ zotina @ ibp. ru; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0002 - 4792 - 1582
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Zootaxa
2023
2023-06-21
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3
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http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5306.3.2
journal article
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Brachycentrus subnubilis
Curtis 1834
.
The mesonotum always consists of pairs of sclerites; each metathorax epimeron has a brush of long setae on the anterior edge (
Fig. 10A
). The setae of the mesonotal sclerites are closely adjacent to the posterior edge (
Fig. 10A
). The inner anterior corner of each submesal mesonotal sclerite has 2-4 setae (
Fig. 10A
). The mid- and hind tibiae each have a large apicoventral protrusion bearing a large apical bristle (
Fig. 10B
). The dorsal edges of the middle and hind femora have several secondary setae (
Fig. 10B
); the ventral edges of these femora each has a dense row of short filtering hairs and two long bristles, there are no hypertrophic setae (
Fig. 10B
). The larval case is a slightly conic tetrahedral tube square in cross-section (
Figs 10C, 10D
) up to
1 cm
long. A case is constructed from leaves of water moss arranged transversely. Two
types
of cases were found in our samples. One
type
has regular transverse ribs on the case surface, which are clearly seen with the naked eye or at a low magnification, and fragments of water moss shoots are embedded in cases at the frontal or distal or both ends of the tube (
Fig. 10C
). Cases of the other
type
have a smooth surface, but regular structures formed by leaves of water moss embedded at right angles to the longitudinal axis of the case are visible at microscopic magnification (
Fig. 10D
). This species was low in numbers but regularly found in the
Trichoptera
assemblages on water moss.