The larvae of the European species of genus apataniana mosely, 1936 (Trichoptera, apataniidae): Descriptions, key and ecology

Abstract

This paper describes the previously unknown or insufficiently known larvae of Apataniana hellenica, Apa­taniana stropones and Apataniana vardusia. Species association was enabled by the fact that the three micro-endemic Apataniana larvae are restricted to Greece and the only Apataniidae species recorded in European ecoregion 6 (Hellenic Western Balkan; Graf et al. 2008), and that the endemic status of the three species clearly defined their non-overlapping sampling ranges. Information on the morphology of the larvae is given, and the most important diagnostic features are illustrated.