Publication details
Collections of the Czech Republic stoneflies by E. Křelinová and J. Raušer
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| Year of publication | 2008 |
| Type | Conference abstract |
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| Description | History of stonefly research in the Czech Republic is inherently connected with names of Eugenie Křelinová (formerly the Institute of Entomology, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Praha) and Jaroslav Raušer (formerly Geographical Institute, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Brno). Their contribution to knowledge of morphology, faunistics, distribution and chorology of stoneflies is based on extensive material (including larvae, adults, and exuviae) collected from 1947 to 1965. Although this material comes from more than 750 sites distributed all over the Czech Republic representing the widest and the most complex data about stoneflies in Central Europe, it has been published only partly. After forty years the restoration of both collections is inevitably necessary. While a part of Raušer s collection is lost by unsuitable reposition, the Křelinová s collection has been deposited untouched in the National Museum in Praha and the rest of both collections need to be relabelled and revised. So far more than half of total number of samples has been processed. Up to now 70 species have been identified including those hitherto unknown from new species for the Czech Republic (e.g., Siphonoperla burmeisteri and Chloroperla susemicheli) and specimens confirming important earlier disputable faunistic records from this area have been found which confirm occurrence of some species in the Czech Republic (e.g., Capnia nigra and Brachyptera starmachi). |
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