Corresponding author: Ruzhdi Kuçi (
Academic editor: Benjamin Price
The knowledge about distribution, ecology and species composition of caddisflies of the Balkan Peninsula is still not complete. The ongoing investigations of the last years highlight this area as an important hotspot of caddisfly diversity.
In this paper, we present records of these two rare taxa of
The unexpected finding of these two taxa in Kosovo greatly enlarges their known distribution area and makes a contribution towards the better knowledge of distributional patterns of these rare taxa of caddisflies in this part of Europe.
The knowledge about distribution, ecology and species composition of caddisflies in the Balkan Peninsula is still not complete. The recent and ongoing investigations in this area (e.g.
Until recently, there were only few registered records of caddisfly species in Kosovo, but the list has significantly increased during the past decade, with several new species being described (e.g.
The main goal of this study was to contribute to the list of caddisfly taxa in the Republic of Kosovo and improve the knowledge about geographic distribution of rare taxa of caddisflies in the Balkan Peninsula, to assist in proper conservation of freshwater ecosystems.
Sampling was carried out occasionally during 2014 and 2017 at six sampling stations, three of them being located in Bjeshkët e Nemuna and the other three in Karadak Mountains in the Republic of Kosovo (Table
Slovenia, Italy, Bosnia and Herzegovina and Kosovo (
We found that the flight period of this subspecies is from May to September. The subspecies is present at different altitudes, from 620 m up to 1307 m.
The shape of male genitalia and especially of parts which are important for subspecies identification (length, shape and curvature of intermediate appendages, shape and size of dorsal and ventral lobes of inferior appendages and shape of inner basal projections) clearly point to the
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Austria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Czech Republic, Croatia, France, Germany, Italy, Liechtenstein, Poland, Slovakia, Slovenia, Switzerland (
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One species of the
The species
The number of
Finding of several other rare species during this investigation (such as:
We would like to thank Professor Hans Malicky for verifying specimens of
Details of the six sampling stations in Karadak (S1, S2, S3) and Bjeshkët e Nemuna (S4, S5, S6) mountains in Kosovo.
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Dërmjak |
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620 |
Letnicë |
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625 |
Zhegër |
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640 |
Stankaj |
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1307 |
Drelaj |
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1072 |
Pepaj |
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968 |