Larval description, genetic and ecological features of Drusus radovanovici radovanovici Marinković-Gospodnetić, 1971 (Trichoptera, Limnephilidae) with some phylogenetic and taxonomic data on the bosnicus group in the Balkan Peninsula

Abstract

Species of the genus Drusus usually inhabit cold springs and spring areas of mountain streams. Isolation of populations and a patchy distribution are reasons for high diversity and endemism in this genus. Nine taxa from the bosnicus group (genus Drusus) live in the Balkan Peninsula (Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro, Macedonia). This study has two main objectives. First, morphological, ecological, and genetic features (mitochondrial COI and 16S genes) of the final larval instar of Drusus radovanovici radovanovici from Bosnia and Herzegovina are analysed. Association of larvae and adults of D. radovanovici radovanovici is carried out according to genetic data (mitochondrial DNA) of adults and larvae, and supported by their distribution in Bosnia and Herzegovina. Second, phylogeny, taxonomy and distribution of taxa of the bosnicus group in the Balkan Peninsula are discussed. The analysis includes morphological and genetic data for the known larvae of the genus Drusus distributed in the Balkans. As a consequence, both subspecies of Drusus radovanovici are ranked as species (D. radovanovici and D. septentrionis stat. n.), and the status of other taxa from the bosnicus group is discussed. (© 2011 WILEY‐VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim)

Description of two new filtering carnivore Drusus species (Limnephilidae, Drusinae) from the Western Balkans

“…11). Such small-scale distribution of distinct Drusinae species is well documented from the Western Balkans (Marinković-Gospodnetić 1976; Kučinić et al 2011a; Oláh 2010, 2011; Oláh and Kovács 2013; Previšić et al 2014a, b; Vitecek et al 2015). Similarly, other taxa exhibit comparable distribution patterns, in which single mountain ranges represent the range of a species, or haplogroups (Ursenbacher et al 2008, Stevanović et al 2009, Zogaris et al 2009, Karaman et al 2011).…”

“…Research on the caddisfly fauna of the Western Balkans further suggests several factors, such as karstification, as drivers of speciation (Previšić et al 2009, 2014b). The limnephilid subfamily Drusinae is particularly species-rich in the Western Balkans, including a high proportion of micro-endemics sensu Graf et al (2008), i.e., taxa restricted to small geographic units within an ecoregion sensu Illies (1978) (Malicky 2004; Graf et al 2008; Oláh 2010, 2011; Kučinić et al 2011a,b; Oláh and Kovács 2013; Previšić et al 2014a, b; Vitecek et al 2015; Ibrahimi et al pers. comm.).…”

“…Filtering carnivorous Drusinae males uniquely exhibit laterally positioned gland openings at the fifth abdominal sternite and parallel wing veins in the hind wing anal field (depicted in Vitecek et al in press). The largest genus Drusus is paraphyletic (Pauls et al 2008) and comprises 86 species of all feeding types (Malicky 2004, 2005; Graf et al 2008; Kučinić et al 2011a; Oláh 2010, 2011; Oláh and Kovács 2013; Vitecek et al 2015; Vitecek et al in press; Ibrahimi et al pers. comm.).…”

Trichoptera endemic in the Carpathian Basin and the adjacent areas

“…Drusus radovanovici Marinković-Gospodnetić, 1971: Kučinić et al (2011: taxonomic status raised to species level based on larval and adult morphology as well as by mtCOI gene sequences.…”

Morphological comparison of the larvae of Panorpa obtusa Cheng and Neopanorpa lui Chou & Ran (Mecoptera: Panorpidae)

“…For instance, the larvae of aquatic Megaloptera and Trichoptera possess tracheal gills (Kučinic et al, 2011;Cao and Liu, 2013) absent in non-aquatic larvae, and the larvae of glossatan Lepidoptera have crochet-bearing prolegs (Wagner, 2005;van Griethuijsen and Trimmer, 2014) lacking in larvae of Coleoptera (Lawrence et al, 2011;Gosik and Wanat, 2014).…”