The Natural History of the Bílé Karpaty Protected Landscape Area and Biosphere Reserve (Czech Republic)

Acta Musei Moraviae, Scientiae biologicae

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The Natural History of the Bílé Karpaty Protected Landscape Area

and Biosphere Reserve (Czech Republic)

O

K

, I

M

, P

K

& M

Ž

1_{Agency for Nature Conservation and Landscape Protection of the Czech Republic, Management of the Bílé} Karpaty Protected Landscape Area, Nádražní 318, CZ-763 26 Luhaèovice, Czech Republic;

e-mail: brouk.vsetin@centrum.cz, ondrej.konvicka@nature.cz

2_{Department of Entomology, Moravian Museum, Hviezdoslavova 29a, CZ-627 00 Brno, Czech Republic;} e-mail: imalenovsky@mzm.cz

3_{Department of Entomology, National Museum, Kunratice 1, CZ-148 00 Praha 4, Czech Republic;} e-mail: sigara@post.cz

4_{E-mail: miloslav.zmolik@nature.cz}

KONVIÈKAO., MALENOVSKÝI., KMENTP. & ŽMOLÍKM. 2012: The Natural History of the Bílé Karpaty Protected

Landscape Area and Biosphere Reserve (Czech Republic). In: MALENOVSKÝI., KMENTP. & KONVIÈKAO. (eds.): Species inventories of selected insect groups in the Bílé Karpaty Protected Landscape Area and Biosphere Reserve (Czech Republic). Acta Musei Moraviae, Scientiae biologicae (Brno) 96(2) (2011): 7–35. – This paper summarizes the basics of the geology, geomorphology, hydrology, climate, soils, post-glacial history, nature conservation, flora, vegetation, and fauna of the Bílé Karpaty Protected Landscape Area and Biosphere Reserve in south-eastern Moravia, Czech Republic. The aim is to provide a general background, particularly for the contributions dealing with the fauna of a number of the insect groups that occur in this region that are included in this volume of the journal.

Keywords. White Carpathians, Moravia, topography, geology, geomorphology, hydrology, climate, pedology, post-glacial history, nature conservation, flora, vegetation, fauna, biogeography

Introduction

The Bílé Karpaty Protected Landscape Area (abbreviated to PLA hereafter) was

established in 1980 and covers an area of 715 km

_(P

_{& J}

_{2008). It}

is situated between 48°48

′

45

″

–49°10

′

11

″

N and 17°15

′

04

″

–18°13

′

47

″

E (K

1992a, J

& P

2006) in south-eastern Moravia (Czech Republic) and

extends some 80 km along the Czech-Slovak border (which was itself finally formalised

in 1997; K

2009) between the villages of Sudomìøice in the south-west and

Nedašova Lhota in the north-east (Figs 1, 2). The Bílé Karpaty PLA covers most of the

Czech part of the Bílé Karpaty Mts. [White Carpathians]. The Slovak part of the

mountains is also protected by law, as the Biele Karpaty Protected Landscape Area,

established in 1979 over an area of 435 km

_(P

_{& J}

_2008).

The Bílé Karpaty Mts. make up a region with an outstanding diversity of flora and

fauna, something due, at least in part to long-term harmonious usage on the part of local

people. This was recognised when the Bílé Karpaty PLA was accorded the status of a

UNESCO Biosphere Reserve within the Man and Biosphere (MaB) programme in 1996.

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Stoneflies (Plecoptera) of the Bílé Karpaty Protected Landscape

Area and Biosphere Reserve (Czech Republic)

J

B

, P

C

& P

K

1_{Department of Botany and Zoology, Masaryk University, Kotláøská 2, CZ-611 37 Brno, Czech Republic;} e-mail: bojkova@centrum.cz

2_{Department of Entomology, National Museum, Kunratice 1, CZ-148 00 Praha 4, Czech Republic; e-mail:} pavel_chvojka@nm.cz

3_{Morava River Basin, s.e., Døevaøská 11, CZ-601 75 Brno, Czech Republic; e-mail: komzak@email.cz}

BOJKOVÁJ., CHVOJKAP. & KOMZÁKP. 2012: Stoneflies (Plecoptera) of the Bílé Karpaty Protected Landscape

Area and Biosphere Reserve (Czech Republic). In: MALENOVSKÝI., KMENTP. & KONVIÈKAO. (eds.): Species

inventories of selected insect groups in the Bílé Karpaty Protected Landscape Area and Biosphere Reserve (Czech Republic). Acta Musei Moraviae, Scientiae biologicae (Brno) 96(2) (2011): 37–70. – In the course of a faunistic survey in the Bílé Karpaty Protected Landscape Area and Biosphere Reserve (south-eastern Moravia, Czech Republic), a total of 37 species of Plecoptera (37% of the fauna of the Czech Republic) from 12 genera and seven families were recorded. Seven species are classified in the Red List of threatened invertebrates of the Czech Republic, in the categories “endangered” (Isoperla sudetica (Kolenati, 1859), I. tripartita Illies, 1954,

Perlodes dispar(Rambur, 1842), and Perla marginata (Panzer, 1799)) and “vulnerable” (Perla abdominalis

Burmeister, 1839, Amphinemura standfussi(Ris, 1902) and Nemoura sciurus Aubert, 1949). The occurrences of the eastern Mediterranean species Isoperla tripartita, which reaches the north-western limit of its distribution in the Czech Republic and is widespread and frequent in the Bílé Karpaty PLA, and the central European species Nemoura sciurus, infrequent in the Czech Republic but common in the area investigated, are especially noteworthy. Other remarkable records include four species with a Carpathian, Balkan-Carpathian or Carpathian-Anatolian distribution (Nemoura carpathica Illies, 1963, N.fusca Kis, 1963, Protonemura aestiva

Kis, 1965, and Leuctra quadrimaculata Kis, 1963) which are rare in the Czech Republic. Three species (Perlodes dispar(Rambur, 1842), Perla marginata (Panzer, 1799) and Leuctra major Brinck, 1949) found in the Bílé Karpaty PLA in 1958 have not been re-collected in recent years at the sites of their earlier occurrence. These species are sensitive to pollution and stream morphology degradation and these impacts may have led to their disappearance from the area. The highest species richness of stoneflies was found in springs and brooks in the mountainous part of the PLA. The majority of species recorded occur in these biotopes.

Key words. Plecoptera, faunistics, biogeography, species conservation, aquatic habitats, White Carpathians, Moravia, Czech Republic

Introduction

The order Plecoptera (stoneflies) consists of a relatively small group of aquatic

insects largely inhabiting running water habitats. Stoneflies are ecologically significant

in freshwater ecosystems, as they live predominantly in undisturbed habitats with natural

temperature, oxygen conditions and water quality. In the Czech Republic, R

(1977)

listed 90 species of stoneflies: 81 in Bohemia and 75 in Moravia. Since 1977, the number

of species arose in the light of taxonomic changes (see B

2009 for details) and

new records (Š

et al

. 1999, B

& Š

2006, B

et al

. 2010, K

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Grasshoppers and crickets (Orthoptera), earwigs (Dermaptera),

cockroaches (Blattaria), and mantises (Mantodea)

of the Bílé Karpaty Protected Landscape Area and

Biosphere Reserve (Czech Republic)

J

H

, P

K

& O

K

1_{Department of Forest Protection and Game Management, Faculty of Forestry and Wood Sciences, Czech} University of Life Sciences, Kamýcká 1176, CZ-165 21 Praha 6-Suchdol, Czech Republic;

e-mail: holusaj@seznam.cz

2_{Department of Biology and Ecology, Faculty of Sciences, University of Ostrava, Chittussiho 10,} CZ-710 00 Ostrava, Czech Republic; e-mail: petr.kocarek@osu.cz

3_{Agency for Nature Conservation and Landscape Protection of the Czech Republic, Management of the Bílé} Karpaty Protected Landscape Area, Nádražní 318, CZ-763 26 Luhaèovice, Czech Republic;

e-mail: brouk.vsetin@centrum.cz; ondrej.konvicka@nature.cz

HOLUŠAJ., KOÈÁREKP. & KONVIÈKAO. 2012: Grasshoppers and crickets (Orthoptera), earwigs (Dermaptera),

cockroaches (Blattaria), and mantises (Mantodea) of the Bílé Karpaty Protected Landscape Area and Biosphere Reserve (Czech Republic). In: MALENOVSKÝI., KMENTP. & KONVIÈKAO. (eds.): Species inventories of selected insect groups in the Bílé Karpaty Protected Landscape Area and Biosphere Reserve (Czech Republic). Acta Musei Moraviae, Scientiae biologicae (Brno) 96(2) (2011): 71–104. – Based on previously published data and newly examined material, 49 species of Orthoptera, four species of Blattaria, one species of Mantodea, and four species of Dermaptera are recorded from the Bílé Karpaty [= the White Carpathians] Protected Landscape Area and Biosphere Reserve (south-eastern Moravia, Czech Republic). The fauna of the area consists predominantly of species of the deciduous forest zone of the Euro-Siberian region with steppe and forest-steppe species that occur less frequently. Most of the species have a wide ecological valence and distribution in the Czech Republic and can occur in various grassland habitats, often preferring taller stands; others live on shrubs, trees, or in leaf litter. Stenotopic or thermophilous species which occur (sometimes abundantly) in warm and arid, short-stemmed xerothermic grassland and sparsely vegetated areas include Calliptamus italicus (Linnaeus, 1758),

Chorthippus mollis (Charpentier, 1825), Euchorthippus declivus (Brisout-Barneville, 1848), Metrioptera bicolor (Philippi, 1830),Oedipoda caerulescens (Linnaeus, 1758), Omocestus rufipes (Zetterstedt, 1821),

Platycleis albopunctata grisea (Goeze, 1778),Poecilimon intermedius (Fieber, 1853),Stenobothrus crassipes

(Charpentier, 1825), and S. lineatus (Panzer, 1796). As the overall character of the area is relatively arid and the extent of wetlands negligible, only a few hygrophilous species are present in the area (Chorthippus montanus

(Charpentier, 1825),Chrysochraon dispar (Germar, 1834),Conocephalus fuscus (Fabricius, 1793),Euthystira brachyptera (Ocskay, 1826), and Metrioptera brachyptera (Linnaeus, 1761)). From the viewpoint of nature conservation, the most important species of Orthoptera in the Bílé Karpaty are Polysarcus denticauda

(Charpentier, 1825), Poecilimon intermedius, Pseudopodisma nagyi Galvagni et Fontana, 1996, andPsophus stridulus (Linnaeus, 1758), which are threatened in the Czech Republic.

Key words. Ensifera, Caelifera, Blattodea, Dermaptera, Mantis religiosa, faunistics, biogeography, species conservation, White Carpathians, Moravia, Czech Republic

Introduction

The order Orthoptera, including grasshoppers, crickets and allied insects, constitutes

one of the dominant groupings of invertebrates in the graminoid-herbaceous ecosystems

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Jumping plant-lice (Hemiptera: Psylloidea) of the Bílé Karpaty

Protected Landscape Area and Biosphere Reserve (Czech Republic)

I

M

& P

L

1_{Department of Entomology, Moravian Museum, Hviezdoslavova 29a, CZ-627 00 Brno, Czech Republic;} e-mail: imalenovsky@mzm.cz

2_{e-mail: ento.laut@mzm.cz}

MALENOVSKÝI. & LAUTERERP. 2012: Jumping plant-lice (Hemiptera: Psylloidea) of the Bílé Karpaty Protected

Landscape Area and Biosphere Reserve (Czech Republic). In: MALENOVSKÝI., KMENTP. & KONVIÈKAO.

(eds.): Species inventories of selected insect groups in the Bílé Karpaty Protected Landscape Area and Biosphere Reserve (Czech Republic). Acta Musei Moraviae, Scientiae biologicae (Brno) 96(2) (2011): 105–154. – A total of 85 species of jumping plant-lice (Hemiptera: Sternorrhyncha: Psylloidea) were recorded in the Bílé Karpaty Protected Landscape Area and Biosphere Reserve and a few closely adjacent localities (south-eastern Moravia, Czech Republic). Most of the records come from field surveys carried out in 1998–2011, with some additional data based on literature and collection specimens. A complete list of all records from the area is supplemented by brief notes on the distribution, host plants and conservation status of each species. Bactericera lyrata Seljak, Malenovský & Lauterer, 2008, Bactericera substriola Ossiannilsson, 1992, and Cacopsylla albipes (Flor, 1861) are recorded here for the Czech Republic for the first time. The jumping plant-louse fauna of the Bílé Karpaty may be characterised as species-rich, comprising 65% of the Psylloidea species known to occur in the Czech Republic. As well as many widely distributed and generally common species, this also includes 17 species categorised in the Red List of threatened invertebrates of the Czech Republic. Especially noteworthy from the viewpoints of nature conservation and biogeography are some rare thermophilous species confined to sunny forest margins and/or dry grassland (Cacopsylla albipes,C. viburni (Löw, 1876),Eryngiofaga lautereri Loginova, 1977, and Livilla radiata (Foerster, 1848)), hygrophilous species inhabiting spring fens, wet meadows and shrubs along streams (Aphalara calthae (Linnaeus, 1761),

Bactericera maura (Foerster, 1848), B. modesta (Foerster, 1848), B. substriola, Cacopsylla abdominalis

(Meyer-Dür, 1871), and C. elegantula (Zetterstedt, 1840)), ruderal habitats (Bactericera lyrataand B. trigonica

Hodkinson, 1981), and several orophilous/psychrophilous species largely restricted to floristically rich pastures and meadows in the central and north-eastern parts of the Bílé Karpaty Mts. (Craspedolepta sonchi (Foerster, 1848),Trioza abdominalis Flor, 1861,T. cerastii (Linnaeus, 1758),T. chrysanthemi Löw, 1878,T. dispar Löw, 1878,T. proxima Flor, 1861, and T. schrankii Flor, 1861). Trioza agrophila Löw, 1878, was known from the area only by deduction from findings of galls in the past and has not been confirmed in recent years. Three introduced species, Cacopsylla hippophaes (Foerster, 1848), Livilla variegata (Löw, 1881), and Psylla buxi

(Linnaeus, 1758), occur in the Bílé Karpaty PLA only in villages, on ornamental woody plants in gardens, parks, and cemeteries.

Key words. Psyllids, Sternorrhyncha, faunistics, new records, nature conservation, White Carpathians, Moravia, central Europe

Introduction

The jumping plant-lice, or psyllids (Hemiptera: Sternorrhyncha: Psylloidea), are a

relatively small group of phytophagous insects that feed by sucking plant sap. The group

includes some 190 species in central Europe, usually with narrowly restricted host-plant

ranges (B

2002). The jumping plant-louse fauna of the Czech Republic is

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Caddis flies (Trichoptera) of the Bílé Karpaty Protected Landscape

Area and Biosphere Reserve (Czech Republic)

P

K

& P

C

1_{Morava River Basin, s. e., Døevaøská 11, CZ-601 75 Brno, Czech Republic; e-mail: komzak@email.cz} 2_{Department of Entomology, National Museum, Kunratice 1, CZ-148 00 Praha 4, Czech Republic;}

e-mail: pavel_chvojka@nm.cz

KOMZÁKP. & CHVOJKAP. 2012: Caddis flies (Trichoptera) of the Bílé Karpaty Protected Landscape Area and

Biosphere Reserve (Czech Republic). In: MALENOVSKÝI., KMENTP. & KONVIÈKAO. (eds.): Species inventories

of selected insect groups in the Bílé Karpaty Protected Landscape Area and Biosphere Reserve (Czech Republic). Acta Musei Moraviae, Scientiae biologicae (Brno) 96(2) (2011): 697–761. – An extensive survey of caddis flies (Trichoptera) was carried out in the Bílé Karpaty Protected Landscape Area and Biosphere Reserve (south-eastern Moravia, Czech Republic) in 2004–2010. A total of 121 species were found, including several species recorded for the first time for the Czech Republic (Synagapetus armatus (McLachlan, 1879), S. dubitans McLachlan, 1879,Hydroptila lotensis Mosely, 1930, and H. vichtaspa Schmid, 1959) or Moravia (Rhyacophila pubescens Pictet, 1834, Hydroptila angulata Mosely, 1922, H. angustata Mosely, 1939,

Hydropsyche fulvipes (Curtis, 1834), Agrypnia varia (Fabricius, 1793), andErnodes vicinus (McLachlan, 1879)). Altogether, with two species collected only in the 1950s, 123 species (48% of the fauna of the Czech Republic) were documented from the area, including many species rare or threatened at national level (seven of them are classified as critically endangered, three as endangered, and 11 as vulnerable species in the Red List of threatened invertebrates of the Czech Republic). Abundant populations of calciphilous species Rhyacophila pubescensandTinodes unicolor(Pictet, 1834) in calcareous spring areas and brooks and many crenophilous species in springs, including some rare Glossosomatidae and Beraeidae, are particularly significant from the viewpoint of nature conservation. From the biogeographical viewpoint, the occurrences of several Carpathian species (Synagapetus armatus, Chaetopteryx polonicaDziêdzielewicz, 1889, andPotamophylax carpathicus

(Dziêdzielewicz, 1912)) that reach their westernmost limits of distribution in the Bílé Karpaty Mts. and of the Ponto-Mediterranean species Hydroptila vichtaspaare the most noteworthy.

Key words. Trichoptera, faunistics, biogeography, species conservation, aquatic habitats, White Carpathians, Moravia, Czech Republic

Introduction

The Trichoptera (caddis flies) constitute the largest order of semi-aquatic insects,

with more than 13,500 valid species known worldwide. Immature stages generally

develop in freshwater habitats (springs and spring areas, streams, lakes, peat bogs,

temporary pools, etc.), while adults are terrestrial. The larvae and pupae make up,

especially in running waters, a considerable proportion of the benthic biomass and they

have an important role in food webs in aquatic ecosystems.

The caddis fly fauna of the Czech Republic is quite well documented (

cf.

C

& K

2008). However, extensive surveys in eastern Moravia have recently resulted

in additional new records for the country (C

et al.

2009, K

& K

2011).

A total of 258 species of Trichoptera is currently known from the Czech Republic

(K

& K

2011), of which 244 occur in Bohemia and 224 in Moravia.

Altogether 84 species are included in the Red List of threatened Czech invertebrates, nine

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Horse flies (Diptera: Tabanidae) of the Bílé Karpaty Protected

Landscape Area and Biosphere Reserve (Czech Republic)

J

J

& M

O

1_{Department of Entomology, National Museum, Kunratice 1, CZ-148 00 Praha 4, Czech Republic;} e-mail: jan_jezek@nm.cz

2_{Department of Botany and Zoology, Faculty of Science, Masaryk University, Kotláøská 2, CZ-611 37 Brno,} Czech Republic; e-mail: marketa.omelkova@seznam.cz

JEŽEKJ. & OMELKOVÁM. 2012: Horse flies (Diptera: Tabanidae) of the Bílé Karpaty Protected Landscape Area

and Biosphere Reserve (Czech Republic). In: MALENOVSKÝI., KMENTP. & KONVIÈKA O. (eds.): Species inventories of selected insect groups in the Bílé Karpaty Protected Landscape Area and Biosphere Reserve (Czech Republic). Acta Musei Moraviae, Scientiae biologicae (Brno) 96(2) (2011): 803–817. – An account of the family Tabanidae in the Bílé Karpaty Protected Landscape Area and Biosphere Reserve (south-eastern Moravia, Czech Republic) is presented, with a total of 8 genera and 26 species of horse flies. A survey of 38 localities in 2005–2010 yielded records of 25 species. One species, Tabanus sudeticus Zeller, 1842, was collected from the area only in the distant past. Important among the records are Haematopota bigoti Gobert, 1881 and H. ocelligera (Kröber, 1922), both new for the fauna of the Czech Republic, and Therioplectes gigas

(Herbst, 1787) which is classified as a vulnerable species in the national Red List of threatened invertebrates. A brief overview of distribution and ecology is provided for all the taxa recorded.

Key words. Diptera, Tabanidae, faunistics, biogeography, new records, species conservation, White Carpathians, Moravia, Czech Republic

Introduction

The family Tabanidae (horse flies) is a well-known group of haematophagous,

dipterous insects of great economic importance. Females usually suck the blood of

mammals, while both sexes drink water from pools and ponds in flight and often feed on

nectar as well, mainly from umbellate plants. The eggs of Tabanidae are laid in compact

masses, usually on the under-surface of leaves overhanging water or wet soil. Most of the

larvae are predatory, aquatic, semi-aquatic or edaphic; mature larvae migrate to places of

lower humidity and the pupa obtecta is unlikely to be submerged. For additional

information on the biology of horse flies see C

(1980) and C

& J

(1997).

Altogether 3,500 species of horse flies are known worldwide; 541 of them occur in

the Palaearctic Region, 213 in Europe, and 55 in the Czech Republic (50 in Bohemia, 48

in Moravia) (J

& B

2005, C

2009). The Czech fauna has been addressed

in detail in a monograph by C

(1980). Further information on the distribution,

ecology and biology of certain Czech species may be found in papers by A

(1990), C

(2007), L

(1960, 1967), M

(1976), and O

(1977).

Additional taxonomical and faunistic papers, regional identification guides, keys for the

identification of larvae and accounts of species important from biogeographical and

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Moth flies (Diptera: Psychodidae) of the Bílé Karpaty Protected

Landscape Area and Biosphere Reserve (Czech Republic)

J

J

& M

O

1 _{Department of Entomology, National Museum, Kunratice 1, CZ-148 00 Praha 4, Czech Republic;} e-mail: jan_jezek@nm.cz

2 _{Department of Botany and Zoology, Faculty of Science, Masaryk University, Kotláøská 2, CZ-611 37 Brno,} Czech Republic; e-mail: marketa.omelkova@seznam.cz

JEŽEKJ. & OMELKOVÁM. 2012: Moth flies (Diptera: Psychodidae) of the Bílé Karpaty Protected Landscape

Area and Biosphere Reserve (Czech Republic). In: MALENOVSKÝI., KMENTP. & KONVIÈKAO. (eds.): Species inventories of selected insect groups in the Bílé Karpaty Protected Landscape Area and Biosphere Reserve (Czech Republic). Acta Musei Moraviae, Scientiae biologicae (Brno) 96(2) (2011): 763–802. – An account of the family Psychodidae in the Bílé Karpaty Protected Landscape Area (south-eastern Moravia, Czech Republic) is provided. In the course of a survey of 78 localities in 2005–2010 in the Moravian part of the White Carpathian Mts., a total of 39 genera and 108 species of moth flies were recorded, including many species considered threatened or rare in the Czech Republic at national level (13 species are classified as critically endangered, nine as endangered and four as vulnerable in the Red List of threatened invertebrates of the Czech Republic, and 28 additional species are known to occur only sparsely in the country). Psychomormia vaillanti(Wagner, 1977) and Apsycha pusilla (Tonnoir, 1922) are new for the fauna of Moravia and Philosepedon perdecorum Omelková et Ježek, 2012 and Pneumia kabelakiOmelková et Ježek, 2012 have been described from Knìždubský háj forest and Sidonie nature reserve respectively as new for science in parallel papers. A brief general account of distribution and ecology is provided for all the taxa recorded.

Key words. Diptera, Psychodidae, faunistics, biogeography, new records, species conservation, White Carpathians, Moravia, Czech Republic

Introduction

The family Psychodidae (moth flies) is taxonomically one of the most difficult

groups of nematocerous Diptera, relatively well-represented in the Palaearctic region

with almost 500 known species (W

1990) of which 172 occur in the Czech

Republic (J

2009a, J

et al.

2012). Adult moth flies (size 2–3 mm) occur in wet,

shaded habitats in the neighbourhood of springs, water reservoirs, and especially small

bodies of running water. Generally, the adults have not been observed to feed in the wild;

however, females of the Sycoracinae are known to suck the blood of certain amphibians.

The larvae of Psychodidae often develop in decaying organic matter and leaf packs in

peat-forming spring fens and mires (genera

Peripsychoda

,

Clytocerus

,

Pneumia

, and

Ulomyia

) or on gravel and stony fractions of substrate with moss polsters in tufa-forming

fens (subtribe Mormiina, and genera

Berdeniella

and

Pericoma

). Some larvae are

associated with wet mosses (

Mormia

,

Pericoma

,

Tonnoiriella

), mollusc shells

(

Philosepedon

), sandy sediments (

Parajungiella

), fungi (

Chodopsycha

), or are found in

the slime film covering stones in streams (

Berdeniella

and

Parabazarella

), rotten parts of

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Adephagan and hydrophiloid water beetles (Coleoptera: Gyrinidae,

Haliplidae, Noteridae, Dytiscidae, Helophoridae, and Hydrophilidae)

of the Bílé Karpaty Protected Landscape Area

and Biosphere Reserve (Czech Republic)

D

T

, J

H

, M

S

& J

S

1_{Museum of South-eastern Moravia in Zlín, Soudní 1, CZ-762 57 Zlín, Czech Republic;} e-mail: travnicek@centrum.cz

2_{Department of Entomology, National Museum, Kunratice 1, CZ-148 00 Praha 4, Czech Republic;} e-mail: jiri_hajek@nm.cz

3_{Department of Botany and Zoology, Masaryk University, Kotláøská 2, CZ-611 37 Brno, Czech Republic;} e-mail: michal.straka@centrum.cz

4_{e-mail: dubovec@seznam.cz}

TRÁVNÍÈEK D., HÁJEK J., STRAKA M. & SYCHRA J. 2012: Adephagan and hydrophiloid water beetles

(Coleoptera: Gyrinidae, Haliplidae, Noteridae, Dytiscidae, Helophoridae, and Hydrophilidae) of the Bílé Karpaty Protected Landscape Area and Biosphere Reserve (Czech Republic). In: MALENOVSKÝI., KMENTP. &

KONVIÈKAO. (eds.): Species inventories of selected insect groups in the Bílé Karpaty Protected Landscape Area

and Biosphere Reserve (Czech Republic). Acta Musei Moraviae, Scientiae biologicae (Brno) 96(2) (2011): 629–665. – A total of 110 species of adephagan and hydrophiloid water beetles (Gyrinidae: 3 spp., Haliplidae: 6 spp., Noteridae: 2 spp., Dytiscidae: 45 spp., Helophoridae: 11 spp., and Hydrophilidae: 43 spp.) were recorded at 114 sites in the Bílé Karpaty Protected Landscape Area (south-eastern Moravia, Czech Republic). Most of the records come from surveys carried out in 1994–2010, with some additional data based on collection specimens. A complete list of all records from the area is supplemented by brief notes on the ecology and conservation status of each species. Three of the recorded species are classified as critically endangered (Hydrophilus piceus (Linnaeus, 1758), Hygrotus parallellogrammus(Ahrens, 1812) and Laccobius simulatrix

Orchymont, 1932), four are regarded as endangered (Gyrinus distinctus Aubé, 1838, Helochares lividus

(Forster, 1771), Hydrovatus cuspidatus(Kunze, 1818) and Laccobius obscuratusRottenberg, 1874), eight as vulnerable (Berosus frontifoveatus Kuwert, 1888, Cercyon nigriceps (Marsham, 1802), Deronectes latus

(Stephens, 1829), Dytiscus circumflexusFabricius, 1801, Hygrotus nigrolineatus (Steven, 1808), Helophorus redtenbacheri Kuwert, 1885, Laccobius gracilisMotschulsky, 1855 and Laccophilus poecilus Klug, 1834) and four as near-threatened (Enochrus fuscipennis (Thomson, 1884), Graptodytes bilineatus (Sturm, 1835),

Helophorus arvernicusMulsant, 1846, and Limnoxenus niger (Gmelin, 1790)) according to the Red List of threatened species in the Czech Republic. These results show that the area harbours a rich water beetle fauna and may provide refuges for rare and endangered species.

Key words. Aquatic beetles, Adephaga, Hydrophiloidea, faunistics, biogeography, threatened species, aquatic habitats, White Carpathians, Moravia, Czech Republic

Introduction

This paper addresses six families of water beetles that inhabit all kinds of wetland

habitats in the Bílé Karpaty Protected Ladscape Area and Biosphere Reserve (hereafter

abbreviated to Bílé Karpaty PLA): the Gyrinidae, Haliplidae, Noteridae, Dytiscidae,

Helophoridae, and Hydrophilidae.

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Water penny beetles (Coleoptera: Psephenidae) of the Bílé Karpaty

Protected Landscape Area and Biosphere Reserve (Czech Republic)

O

K

Agency for Nature Conservation and Landscape Protection of the Czech Republic, Management of the Bílé Karpaty Protected Landscape Area, Nádražní 318, CZ-763 26 Luhaèovice, Czech Republic;

e-mail: brouk.vsetin@centrum.cz; ondrej.konvicka@nature.cz

KONVIÈKAO. 2012: Water penny beetles (Coleoptera: Psephenidae) of the Bílé Karpaty Protected Landscape

Area and Biosphere Reserve (Czech Republic). In: MALENOVSKÝI., KMENTP. & KONVIÈKAO. (eds.): Species inventories of selected insect groups in the Bílé Karpaty Protected Landscape Area and Biosphere Reserve (Czech Republic). Acta Musei Moraviae, Scientiae biologicae (Brno) 96(2)(2011): 691–696. – Only one species of the family Psephenidae, Eubria palustris(Germar, 1818), occurs in Europe including the Czech Republic. In the Bílé Karpaty Protected Landscape Area and Biosphere Reserve, E. palustris was known before this study from six localities published by HORSÁKet al.(2001). This paper confirms the occurrence of E. palustris at three of them and newly reports it from 15 additional sites. Including all published findings, E. palustris is currently known from 21 sites in the Bílé Karpaty. It occurs locally in well-preserved spring fens across most of the Czech part of the mountains.

Key words. Eubria palustris, faunistics, habitat conservation, spring fens, White Carpathians, Moravia, Czech Republic

Introduction

The Psephenidae constitutes a small family of beetles from the superfamily

Byrrhoidea, with strictly aquatic larvae and terrestrial adults. Only one species,

Eubria

palustris

(Germar, 1818), occurs in Europe including the Czech Republic. It is considered

a relict species with a narrow ecological valence, inhabiting helocrene springs in

meadows. It is rare in the Czech Republic and classified as endangered (B

2007).

In Moravia,

E. palustris

has recently been found only in the Bílé Karpaty [White

Carpathians] Protected Landscape Area and Biosphere Reserve (abbreviated to Bílé

Karpaty PLA hereafter) and the Moravskoslezské Beskydy Mts. [Moravian-Silesian

Beskids] (H

et al.

2001, S

2005, B

2007). The species may be

more frequent in neighbouring Slovakia, where e.g. R

(1936) recorded it as

common from lowlands to mountains.

The present paper summarizes the known occurrence of

E. palustris

in the Bílé

Karpaty PLA based on already-published information and recent field work in the area.

Material and methods

The adults of

E. palustris

were collected by sweeping vegetation in spring fens and

the areas around them throughout the Bílé Karpaty PLA in the years 2006–2011. Larvae

were collected either directly with a water net or by straining sample substrate through a

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Minute moss beetles and riffle beetles (Coleoptera: Hydraenidae,

Elmidae) of the Bílé Karpaty Protected Landscape Area and

Biosphere Reserve (Czech Republic)

M

S

, P

K

, D

B

& D

T

1_{Department of Botany and Zoology, Masaryk University, Kotláøská 2, CZ-611 37 Brno, Czech Republic;} e-mail: michal.straka@centrum.cz

2_{Morava River Basin, s.e., Døevaøská 11, CZ-601 75 Brno, Czech Republic; e-mail: komzak@email.cz} 3 _{Biology Centre of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Institute of Entomology, Branišovská 31,}

CZ-370 05 Èeské Budìjovice; e-mail: boukal@entu.cas.cz

4 _{Museum of South-eastern Moravia in Zlín, Soudní 1, CZ-762 57 Zlín, Czech Republic;} e-mail: travnicek@centrum.cz

STRAKAM., KOMZÁKP., BOUKALD. & TRÁVNÍÈEKD. 2012: Minute moss beetles and riffle beetles (Coleoptera: Hydraenidae, Elmidae) of the Bílé Karpaty Protected Landscape Area and Biosphere Reserve (Czech Republic). In: MALENOVSKÝI., KMENTP. & KONVIÈKAO. (eds.): Species inventories of selected insect groups

in the Bílé Karpaty Protected Landscape Area and Biosphere Reserve (Czech Republic). Acta Musei Moraviae, Scientiae biologicae (Brno) 96(2) (2011): 667–689. – Eighteen species of Hydraenidae and ten species of Elmidae were recorded at 89 sites in the Bílé Karpaty Protected Landscape Area and Biosphere Reserve (south-eastern Moravia, Czech Republic) in the course of surveys in 1994–2010. Three additional species of Hydraenidae are known from the area only from historical records. Ochthebius colveranusFerro, 1979 is recorded for the first time for the Czech Republic; this is a most surprising discovery, together with Hydraena rufipesCurtis, 1830, the finding of which has been already reported elsewhere. Moreover, we confirm the recent occurrence of Hydraena minutissimaStephens, 1829 and Ochthebius metallescensRosenhauer, 1847 in Moravia. The complete list of published and new records from the area is supplemented by brief notes on the ecology and conservation status of each species. Two of the species recorded are classified as endangered (Hydraena pulchella Germar, 1824, Ochthebius metallescens Rosenhauer, 1847), three as vulnerable (Hydraena morioKiesenwetter, 1849, Elmis obscura(Ph. Müller, 1806) and Riolus cupreus(Ph. Müller, 1806)) and two as near-threatened (Hydraena belgicaOrchymont, 1930 and Hydraena schuleriGanglbauer, 1901) in the Red List of threatened invertebrates of the Czech Republic. These results show that the area is particularly rich in the running water fauna of the Hydraenidae and Elmidae.

Key words. Aquatic beetles, Coleoptera, Hydraenidae, Elmidae, faunistics, biogeography, new records, species conservation, aquatic habitats, White Carpathians, Moravia, Czech Republic

Introduction

This paper addresses two families of water beetles, the Hydraenidae and the

Elmidae, that are common and speciose in running waters, including those of the Bílé

Karpaty Protected Landscape Area and Biosphere Reserve in south-eastern Moravia,

Czech Republic (hereafter abbreviated to Bílé Karpaty PLA).

The Hydraenidae (minute moss beetles) are cosmopolitan, with over 20 genera and

more than 1,000 described species. The adults of most of them are riparian or aquatic and

may be found in standing water, running water and hygropetric habitats. Some appear to

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True bugs (Hemiptera: Heteroptera) of the Bílé Karpaty Protected

Landscape Area and Biosphere Reserve (Czech Republic)

P

K

& P

B

1_{Department of Entomology, National Museum, Kunratice 1, CZ-148 00 Praha 4, Czech Republic;} e-mail: sigara@post.cz

2_{Department of Entomology, Moravian Museum, Hviezdoslavova 29a, CZ-627 00 Brno, Czech Republic;} e-mail: pbanar@mzm.cz

KMENTP. & BAÒAØP. 2012: True bugs (Hemiptera: Heteroptera) of the Bílé Karpaty Protected Landscape Area

and Biosphere Reserve (Czech Republic). In: MALENOVSKÝI., KMENTP. & KONVIÈKA O. (eds.): Species

inventories of selected insect groups in the Bílé Karpaty Protected Landscape Area and Biosphere Reserve (Czech Republic). Acta Musei Moraviae, Scientiae biologicae (Brno) 96(2) (2011): 323–628. – An extensive survey of true bugs (Hemiptera: Heteroptera) was carried out in the Bílé Karpaty Protected Landscape Area and Biosphere Reserve (south-eastern Moravia, Czech Republic) in 1998–2010, combining various methods of qualitative and quantitative sampling. Before 1998, just 98 species of Heteroptera had been recorded from the Czech side of the Bílé Karpaty Mts., as geographically defined in this contribution. The newly-acquired material yielded 10,732 faunistic records based on examination ofca. 35,984 specimens of Heteroptera. A total of 501 species of true bugs is now known from the Bílé Karpaty PLA, which constitutes 58% of the Czech heteropteran fauna. Among the various habitats, species-rich grasslands are of crucial importance for Heteroptera, harbouring many rare and threatened species, among them Criocoris nigripes Fieber, 1861,

Deraeocoris morio (Boheman, 1852), Halticus pusillus (Herrich-Schaeffer, 1835), Heterocapillus tigripes

Mulsant et Rey, 1852, Lopus decolor (Fallén, 1807), Macrotylus paykullii (Fallén, 1807), Megalocoleus molliculus (Fallén, 1807), Orthocephalus brevis (Panzer, 1798), Orthocephalus coriaceus (Fabricius, 1777),

Placochilus seladonicus (Fallén, 1807), and Systellonotus triguttatus (Linnaeus, 1767). Other important habitats are hedges and forest margins, spring fens, and natural deciduous forests. Three species are recorded here for the first time from the Czech Republic: Charagochilus spiraliferKerzhner, 1988, Heterocordylus cytisi

Josifov, 1958 (both Miridae), and Dysepicritus rufescens(A. Costa, 1847) (Anthocoridae); further, H. cytisiis a first record for central Europe. Four additional species are recorded for the first time for Moravia: Acalypta platycheila (Fieber, 1844) (Tingidae), Phytocoris (Phytocoris) hirsutulus Flor, 1861 (Miridae), Loricula

(Loricula) ruficeps(Reuter, 1884) (Microphysidae), and Elatophilus (Elatophilus)nigricornis (Zetterstedt, 1838) (Anthocoridae). In addition, Ch. weberiWagner, 1953 is removed from the list of Slovak fauna while Ch spiraliferis listed from Slovakia for the first time. Altogether 62 of the true bug species (12%) recorded in the Bílé Karpaty PLA fall into the categories defined by the Red List of threatened invertebrates of the Czech Republic. One of them, Megalotomus junceus(Scopoli, 1763), was considered extinct prior to its rediscovery in the Bílé Karpaty PLA. Four other species are classified as critically endangered: Agramma confusum (Puton, 1879), Tropidothorax leucopterus (Goeze, 1778), Coriomeris scabricornis (Panzer, 1809), and Chlorochroa juniperina (Linnaeus, 1758), while nine are considered endangered: Gerris asper (Fieber, 1860), Macrotylus quadrilineatus (Schrank, 1785), Tytthus pygmaeus (Zetterstedt, 1838), Peritrechus gracilicornis Puton, 1877,

Scolopostethus puberulus Horváth, 1887, Berytinus striola (Ferrari, 1874), Ceraleptus gracilicornis (Herrich-Schaeffer, 1835), Sehirus morio (Linnaeus, 1761), and Holcostethus sphacelatus (Fabricius, 1794). Thirty-one species are vulnerable, and seventeen near-threatened. The majority of the heteropteran fauna of the Bílé Karpaty PLA belong to a range of widely-distributed faunistic elements: 100 species (20%) are of Holopalaearctic or Holarctic distribution, 163 species (33%) are Eurosiberian, 108 species (22%) West Palaearctic or West Eurosiberian, 69 species (14%) European, and 57 species (11%) are of Mediterranean origin. Among the Mediterranean species, several are of major zoogeographical importance, reaching their northernmost distribution limits in the Bílé Karpaty: Harpocera hellenica Reuter, 1876,Heterocapillus tigripes,

Heterocordylus cytisi, Icodema infuscata (Fieber, 1861), Psallus asthenicus Seidenstücker, 1966, P. cruentatus

(Mulsant et Rey, 1852), Megalotomus junceus, and Vilpianus galii (Wolff, 1802). The suitability of Malaise traps as a method of assessing the heteropteran diversity in a given area is briefly discussed.

Key words. Hemiptera, Heteroptera, faunistics, new records, threatened species, White Carpathians, Moravia, Malaise traps

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Leafhoppers and planthoppers (Hemiptera: Auchenorrhyncha) of

the Bílé Karpaty Protected Landscape Area and Biosphere Reserve

(Czech Republic)

IGOR

MALENOVSKÝ

_{& PAVEL}

_LAUTERER

Department of Entomology, Moravian Museum, Hviezdoslavova 29a, CZ-627 00 Brno, Czech Republic; e-mail: imalenovsky@mzm.cz

2

e-mail: ento.laut@volny.cz

MALENOVSKÝI. & LAUTERERP. 2012: Leafhoppers and planthoppers (Hemiptera: Auchenorrhyncha) of the Bílé Karpaty Protected Landscape Area and Biosphere Reserve (Czech Republic). In: MALENOVSKÝI., KMENTP. & KONVIÈKAO. (eds.): Species inventories of selected insect groups in the Bílé Karpaty Protected Landscape Area and Biosphere Reserve (Czech Republic). Acta Musei Moraviae, Scientiae biologicae (Brno) 96(2) (2011): 155–322. – An account of leafhoppers and planthoppers (Hemiptera: Auchenorrhyncha) in the Bílé Karpaty Protected Landscape Area and Biosphere Reserve (south-eastern Moravia, Czech Republic) is provided, based mainly on field surveys in 1998–2012, evaluation of previously collected museum material, and literature. A total of 352 species were recorded, making up 62% of the Auchenorrhyncha fauna of the Czech Republic.

Edwardsiana ulmiphagus Wilson et Claridge, 1999 and Idiocerus vicinus Melichar, 1898 (both Cicadellidae) are reported here for the Czech Republic for the first time, as are Muellerianella fairmairei (Perris, 1857) (Delphacidae), Fieberiella bohemica Dlabola, 1965, Macropsis gravesteini Wagner, 1953, and Zygina ordinaria (Ribaut, 1936) (all Cicadellidae) for Moravia. A complete list of all records from the area is supplemented by short notes on the distribution, ecological requirements and the conservation status of each species. The regional Auchenorrhyncha fauna is briefly discussed from the viewpoints of nature conservation and biogeography. Altogether 86 species are classified in the Red List of threatened invertebrates of the Czech Republic, five of them as critically endangered: Tettigometra leucophaea (Preyssler, 1792) which has, however, probably become extinct in the Bílé Karpaty; Criomorphus williamsi China, 1939, Delphax pulchellus (Curtis, 1833), Euides alpina (Wagner, 1948), andZygina frauenfeldi Lethierry, 1880. The Bílé Karpaty Protected Landscape Area is particularly remarkable for a species-rich Auchenorrhyncha fauna of semi-dry meadows and pastures, calcareous spring fens and forest margins, and the relatively frequent occurrence of several species (e.g. Kelisia irregulata Haupt, 1935;Tettigometra virescens(Panzer, 1799); Cercopis arcuata Fieber, 1844;

Athysanus quadrum (Boheman, 1845); Batracomorphus allionii (Turton, 1802); Eupteryx lelievrei (Lethierry, 1874);E. origani Zachvatkin, 1948; and Handianus flavovarius (Herrich-Schäffer, 1835)) which are very rare or absent elsewhere in the Czech Republic.

Key words. Cicadomorpha, Fulgoromorpha, faunistics, new records, nature conservation, grassland fauna, spring fens, forest margins, White Carpathians, Moravia, central Europe

Introduction

The leafhoppers and planthoppers (Hemiptera: Auchenorrhyncha) make up a

relatively species-rich group of phytophagous insects that feed by sucking plant sap. The

central European fauna comprises more than 900 species (H

et al.

1997, 2003),

of which 572 species have been recorded in the Czech Republic to date (D

1954,

1977; M

& L

2010). The Auchenorrhyncha as a whole utilize almost

every type of semi-aquatic and terrestrial habitat, ranging from wetlands to dry grassland

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Landscape Area and Biosphere Reserve (Czech Republic) –

the current state of knowledge

I

M

, P

K

& O

K

1_{Department of Entomology, Moravian Museum, Hviezdoslavova 28a, CZ-627 00 Brno, Czech Republic;} e-mail: imalenovsky@mzm.cz

2_{Department of Entomology, National Museum, Kunratice 1, CZ-148 00 Praha 4, Czech Republic;} e-mail: sigara@post.cz

3_{Agency for Nature Conservation and Landscape Protection of the Czech Republic, Management of the Bílé} Karpaty Protected Landscape Area, Nádražní 318, CZ-763 26 Luhaèovice, Czech Republic;

e-mail: brouk.vsetin@centrum.cz, ondrej.konvicka@nature.cz

MALENOVSKÝI., KMENTP. & KONVIÈKAO. 2012: Biodiversity of the invertebrates in the Bílé Karpaty Protected

Landscape Area and Biosphere Reserve (Czech Republic) – the current state of knowledge. In: MALENOVSKÝ

I., KMENTP. & KONVIÈKAO. (eds.): Species inventories of selected insect groups in the Bílé Karpaty Protected Landscape Area and Biosphere Reserve (Czech Republic). Acta Musei Moraviae, Scientiae biologicae (Brno)

96(2) (2011): 897–933. – We review the history of investigations into invertebrates in the Bílé Karpaty Protected Landscape Area and Biosphere Reserve (PLA), which is situated along the Czech-Slovak border in south-eastern Moravia, the Czech Republic, and provide corresponding bibliographical references to principal faunistic information on each systematic group of invertebrates. Despite its relatively small area (715 km2_{, i.e.}

less than 1% of the area of the Czech Republic), the Bílé Karpaty PLA harbours approximately 35–65% of the range of invertebrate species occurring in the entire Czech Republic, with a significant proportion of those that are threatened, as close study of certain groups testifies. Despite still insufficient or incomplete data for many taxa, the Bílé Karpaty PLA may be considered as a hotspot of invertebrate diversity in the Czech Republic, comparable to only a few other well-preserved and intensively studied natural areas in the country but unique in its geographical situation within the Carpathian mountain system and the geology based on flysch.

Keywords. White Carpathians, Moravia, bibliography, fauna, zoology, entomology, pedobiology, hydrobiology, parasitology, nature conservation, biodiversity hotspot

Introduction

Lying in a region remote from large scientific centres and

a priori

considered as

biologically uninteresting and species-poor, the Bílé Karpaty Mts. [= the White

Carpathians], situated along the Czech-Slovak border, attracted few studies of their fauna

and flora until relatively recently, in the second half of the 19th century (Slovak part) and

at the beginning of the 20th (Czech part) (J

& D

2008). The first

data specific to invertebrates from what is now the Bílé Karpaty Protected Landscape

Area and Biosphere Reserve (i.e. the Czech (Moravian) part of the Bílé Karpaty Mts.,

abbreviated to Bílé Karpaty PLA hereafter) date back to the beginning of the 20th

century. They address Lepidoptera (S

1912, 1913; S

1913, 1914) and some

gall-forming arthropods (B

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Editorial . . . 5

KONVIÈKAO., MALENOVSKÝI., KMENTP. & ŽMOLÍKM.: The Natural History of the Bílé Karpaty

Protected Landscape Area and Biosphere Reserve (Czech Republic). . . . 7

BOJKOVÁ J., CHVOJKA P. & KOMZÁK P.: Stoneflies (Plecoptera) of the Bílé Karpaty Protected

Landscape Area and Biosphere Reserve (Czech Republic). . . . 37

HOLUŠA J., KOÈÁREK M. & KONVIÈKA O.: Grasshoppers and crickets (Orthoptera), earwigs

(Dermaptera), cockroaches (Blattaria), and mantises (Mantodea) of the Bílé Karpaty Protected Landscape Area and Biosphere Reserve (Czech Republic). . . . 71

MALENOVSKÝI. & LAUTERERP.: Jumping plant-lice (Hemiptera: Psylloidea) of the Bílé Karpaty

Protected Landscape Area and Biosphere Reserve (Czech Republic). . . . 105

MALENOVSKÝI. & LAUTERERP.: Leafhoppers and planthoppers (Hemiptera: Auchenorrhyncha) of

the Bílé Karpaty Protected Landscape Area and Biosphere Reserve (Czech Republic). . . . 155 KMENT P. & BAÒAØ P.: True bugs (Hemiptera: Heteroptera) of the Bílé Karpaty Protected Landscape Area and Biosphere Reserve (Czech Republic). . . . 323

TRÁVNÍÈEK D., HÁJEKJ., STRAKAM. & SYCHRAJ.: Adephagan and hydrophiloid water beetles

(Coleoptera: Gyrinidae, Haliplidae, Noteridae, Dytiscidae, Helophoridae, and Hydrophilidae) of the Bílé Karpaty Protected Landscape Area and Biosphere Reserve (Czech Republic). . . . 629

STRAKAM., KOMZÁK P., BOUKAL D. & TRÁVNÍÈEK D.: Minute moss beetles and riffle beetles

(Coleoptera: Hydraenidae, Elmidae) of the Bílé Karpaty Protected Landscape Area and Biosphere Reserve (Czech Republic). . . . 667

KONVIÈKA O.: Water penny beetles (Coleoptera: Psephenidae) of the Bílé Karpaty Protected

Landscape Area and Biosphere Reserve (Czech Republic). . . . 691

KOMZÁKP. & CHVOJKAP.: Caddis flies (Trichoptera) of the Bílé Karpaty Protected Landscape Area

and Biosphere Reserve (Czech Republic). . . . 697 JEŽEK J. & OMELKOVÁ M.: Moth flies (Diptera: Psychodidae) of the Bílé Karpaty Protected Landscape Area and Biosphere Reserve (Czech Republic). . . . 763 JEŽEK J. & OMELKOVÁ M.: Horse flies (Diptera: Tabanidae) of the Bílé Karpaty Protected Landscape Area and Biosphere Reserve (Czech Republic). . . . 803 MACEKJ .: Sawflies (Hymenoptera: Symphyta) of the Bílé Karpaty Protected Landscape Area and Biosphere Reserve (Czech Republic). . . . 819

MALENOVSKÝI., KMENTP. & KONVIÈKAO.: Biodiversity of the invertebrates in the Bílé Karpaty

Protected Landscape Area and Biosphere Reserve – the current state of knowledge. . . . 897

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Sawflies (Hymenoptera: Symphyta) of the Bílé Karpaty Protected

Landscape Area and Biosphere Reserve (Czech Republic)

J

M

Department of Entomology, National Museum, Kunratice 1, CZ-148 00 Praha 4, Czech Republic; e-mail: macjan@seznam.cz

MACEK J. 2012: Sawflies (Hymenoptera: Symphyta) of the Bílé Karpaty Protected Landscape Area and Biosphere Reserve (Czech Republic). In: MALENOVSKÝI., KMENTP. & KONVIÈKAO. (eds.): Species inventories

of selected insect groups in the Bílé Karpaty Protected Landscape Area and Biosphere Reserve (Czech Republic). Acta Musei Moraviae, Scientiae biologicae (Brno) 96(2) (2011): 819–896. – A faunistic survey of Hymenoptera: Symphyta was conducted in selected localities of the Bílé Karpaty Protected Landscape Area and Biosphere Reserve (south-eastern Moravia, Czech Republic) in 2005–2010. In total, 333 species were recorded in the area (Pamphiliidae: 5 spp., Megalodontesidae: 1 sp., Orussidae: 1 sp., Argidae: 16 spp., Diprionidae: 2 spp., Tenthredinidae: 302 spp., Cephidae: 4 spp., Cimbicidae: 1 sp.). Twenty-one of these species are classified as vulnerable and nine as endangered in the Red List of threatened invertebrates of the Czech Republic.

Eurhadinoceraea amauros (Zombori, 1977), Periclista albipennis (Zaddach, 1859), Nematus umbratus

Thomson, 1871, Pachynematus itoi Okutani, 1955, Pristiphora leucopus Hellén, 1948, and Pristiphora subopacaLindqvist, 1955 are reported here for the first time for the Czech Republic, and Strongylogaster baikalensis Naito, 1990, Aprosthema fusicorne (Thomson, 1871), Cladardis hartigi Liston, 1995, and

Pristiphora luteipesLindqvist, 1955 for the first time for Moravia. New food plant records are provided for the larvae of the following species: Amauronematus sagmariusKonow, 1895 – Salix aurita and S. cinerea; Arge fuscipennis (Herrich-Schäffer, 1835) – Geranium sanguineum; Macrophya albipuncta (Fallén, 1808) –

Geranium sanguineum; Nematus incompletusFörster, 1854 – Lathyrus pratensis; Pachyprotasis variegata

(Fallén, 1808) – Pyrethrum corymbosum; Sciapteryx consobrinaKlug, 1814 – Ranunculus acris;Sterictiphora longicornisChevin, 1982 – Carpinus betulus; Tenthredo trabeata (Klug, 1817) – Senecio ovatus and Petasites hybridus.

Key words. Hymenoptera, Symphyta, faunistics, biogeography, new records, host plants, species conservation, White Carpathians, Czech Republic, Moravia

Introduction

The Symphyta, or sawflies, are a group of largely phytophagous insects with larvae

feeding largely on various gymnosperms and angiosperms. In some habitats (especially

in submontane and montane zones), sawflies make up one of the most significant

constituents of local food chains. Most species are exophytophagous (feeding externally

on leaves), while a few are endophytophagous (mining within plant tissues). In terms of

food plant associations, sawflies include polyphagous, oligophagous and monophagous

species. Especially the oligophagous and monophagous, stenoecious species, which

respond to even small changes in the environment, are generally useful bio-indicators for

assessment of habitat quality. Continuous monitoring of those sensitive species may

provide early warning of progressive, still-latent, negative changes in ecosystems.

The Bílé Karpaty Protected Landscape Area and Biosphere Reserve (abbreviated to

Bílé Karpaty PLA hereafter) was established to protect the most valuable habitats in the

Czech part of the White Carpathians [= Bílé Karpaty Mts.] in south-eastern Moravia

ISSN 1211-8788

ISBN 978-80-7028-391-2