Terrestrial invertebrate fauna of Polish caves – a summary of 100 years of research

Kocot-Zalewska, Joanna; Domagała, Paweł J.

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“…Coldspots and Glaciations. Caves of polar areas, roughly north of 50 • C and south of 45 • C in New Zealand and South America, are relatively well studied [72,[118][119][120]. All are very poor in cave-restricted species, especially in troglobionts.…”

Section: Low-biodiversity Spots In the Temperate Zonementioning

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Global Subterranean Biodiversity: A Unique Pattern

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Pipan

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Section: Low-biodiversity Spots In the Temperate Zonementioning

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Global Subterranean Biodiversity: A Unique Pattern

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Species Composition and Structure of Beetle Associations in Caves of the Częstochowa Upland, Poland

Kocot-Zalewska¹,

Lis

2023

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This paper presents the study’s results on beetles (Insecta: Coleoptera) inhabiting caves in the Częstochowa Upland, southern Poland. During two years of research, 2084 specimens, representing 105 species from 19 beetle families, were collected. The obtained results indicate that many beetle species choose to inhabit caves despite lacking specific adaptations for living in such environments. The cave entrance zone is the most attractive place for surface species to inhabit because its climatic conditions are more stable than outside the cave, some sunlight is present, and the availability of organic matter is high. In the deeper parts of the studied caves, the number of occurring species rapidly decreased. Three species were recognised as troglobionts, four as troglophiles and 32 as subtroglophiles. Speonomus normandi hydrophilus, Choleva lederiana gracilenta and Quedius mesomelinus mesomelinus were identified as the most frequent in the studied caves. Speonomus normandi hydrophilus is endemic to the Arize massif in the Central Pyrenees (France) and was experimentally introduced into the Dzwonnica cave (Poland) in 1982, while Ch. lederiana gracilenta is one of two troglobitic beetles native to Polish caves and Q. imesomelinus mesomelinus is a widespread, very common troglophile.

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Heleomyzidae (Diptera) in the caves of Poland. Historical overview and new data

Kocot-Zalewska¹,

Woźnica²

2020

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The research on invertebrates in caves of Poland dates back to the early 20th century (Kocot-Zalewska and Domagała 2020), but there was never a focus on heleomyzid flies (Diptera: Heleomyzidae). The main purpose of this presentation is to compare historical and new data on heleomyzid flies from the Polish caves with remarks on ecological aspects. The first piece of information about heleomyzid flies was given from the caves and mines in the Sudety Mts (Arndt 1921, Arndt 1923). Among four species of the Heleomyzidae family described from this area, one is noteworthy, it’s Oecothea praecox (Loew, 1862) – species considered to be a troglobite (Košel and Woźnica 2019). Unfortunately, there is no specimen in the museum collection as well as no specimen was caught in Polish caves after the Second World War, hence its presence in Polish fauna is questionable (Košel and Woźnica 2019). More information about heleomyzid flies from this area provided Pax and Maschke (1935) and Haduk and Ogorzałek (1970). The next piece on information was given from Tatra Mts (Kowalski 1955, Sobiepanek 1985) and Kraków - Częstochowa Upland (Skalski 1973, Skalski 1981, Papp and Woźnica 1993, Woźnica 2004, Woźnica 2006, Woźnica and Klasa 2009). So far, in the caves of Poland, altogether 17 species were collected, nowadays the list includes 23 species. The new research was conducted on Częstochowa Upland in the years 2014-2017. The six caves were investigated every month. The material of heleomyzid flies is part of the collection from the implementation of the larger project. A total of 179 specimens were collected. Among 16 identified species, 9 were considered as eutroglophiles, 5 species as subtroglophiles and two as trogloxenes. A comparative analysis based on the applied similarities, using on Ward's minimum variance method, in the Heleomyzid fauna of caves from the mountain and other areas showed significant similarities in the species composition in the Tatra and the Sudety mountains and an important difference between the caves in the mountains and Kraków-Częstochowa Upland.

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Terrestrial invertebrate fauna of Polish caves – a summary of 100 years of research

Cited by 4 publications

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Global Subterranean Biodiversity: A Unique Pattern

Global Subterranean Biodiversity: A Unique Pattern

Species Composition and Structure of Beetle Associations in Caves of the Częstochowa Upland, Poland

Heleomyzidae (Diptera) in the caves of Poland. Historical overview and new data

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