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Trichoptera research within project „EU Natura 2000 Integration Project“ - after project completed

The project „EU Natura 2000 Integration Project“ (NIP) has been initiated by the Ministry of Environment and Nature Protection based on the Loan Agreement with the World Bank. A systematic inventory of biological diversity of those taxonomic groups which are considered as poorly investigated is one of the components of the Project. Caddisfly fauna (Trichoptera) is one of these groups for which a team of all available national experts was formed in order to do the field research and laboratory processing. This poster presentation contains results of 2 year long period (2014- 2015) of caddisflies survey. One of result of this study is systematic list based on identification of mostly adult caddisflies collected at 105 localities (1st year 52 localities and 2nd year 53 localities) all over the country. Caddisflies were sampled three times a year (spring, summer and autumn) on each locality what makes this study unique in terms of Croatia. 154 caddisfly species have been collected of which 13 species were recorded for the first time in Croatia. Some of the interesting species found in this research were: Rhyacophila cabrankensis, Rhyacophila torrentium, Glosossoma conformis, Wormaldia pulla, Hydroptila vectis, Oxyethira flavicornis, Tinodes antonioi, Drusus schmidi, Limnephilus graecus, Micropterna wageneri, Leptocerus tineiformis, Acidella cremisa. Including these data, literature data and museum collections the number of known Trichoptera species in Croatia is around 200. Further value of this study is created entomological collection „Trichoptera – NIP“, deposited in the Croatian Natural History Museum in Zagreb.

caddisfly ; biological diversity ; Croatia

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