Vilenica Marina, Gattolliat Jean-Luc, Mihaljević Zlatko, Sartori Michel
University of Zagreb, Faculty of Teacher Education, Petrinja, Croatia ; University of Zagreb, Faculty of Science, Department of Biology, Division of Zoology, Zagreb, Croatia.
Museum of Zoology, Lausanne, Switzerland.
Zookeys. 2015 Sep 28(523):99-127. doi: 10.3897/zookeys.523.6100. eCollection 2015.
Knowledge of the mayfly biodiversity in the Balkan Peninsula is still far from complete. Compared to the neighbouring countries, the mayfly fauna in Croatia is very poorly known. Situated at the crossroads of central and Mediterranean Europe and the Balkan Peninsula, Croatia is divided into two ecoregions: Dinaric western Balkan and Pannonian lowland. Mayflies were sampled between 2003 and 2013 at 171 sites, and a total of 66 species was recorded. Combined with the literature data, the Croatian mayfly fauna reached a total of 79 taxa. Of these, 29 species were recorded for the first time in Croatia while 15 species were not previously recorded in Dinaric western Balkan ecoregion. Based on the mayfly assemblage, sampling sites were first structured by ecoregion and then by habitat type. In comparison with the surrounding countries, the Croatian mayfly fauna is the most similar to the Hungarian and Bosnian fauna. Some morphologically interesting taxa such as Baetis cf. nubecularis Eaton, 1898 and Rhithrogena from the diaphana group were recorded. Ephemera cf. parnassiana Demoulin, 1958, the species previously recorded only from Greece, was also recorded.
巴尔干半岛蜉蝣生物多样性的相关知识仍远未完善。与周边国家相比，克罗地亚的蜉蝣动物群鲜为人知。克罗地亚位于中欧、地中海欧洲和巴尔干半岛的交汇处，分为两个生态区：迪纳拉西部巴尔干地区和潘诺尼亚低地。2003年至2013年间，在171个地点对蜉蝣进行了采样，共记录到66个物种。结合文献数据，克罗地亚的蜉蝣动物群共有79个分类单元。其中，29个物种是在克罗地亚首次记录，15个物种此前未在迪纳拉西部巴尔干生态区记录到。基于蜉蝣群落，采样地点首先按生态区划分，然后按栖息地类型划分。与周边国家相比，克罗地亚的蜉蝣动物群与匈牙利和波斯尼亚的动物群最为相似。记录到了一些形态上有趣的分类单元，如1898年伊顿描述的拟云纹短脉蜉（Baetis cf. nubecularis Eaton）以及透明类群的河花蜉属（Rhithrogena）。还记录到了1958年德穆兰描述的拟帕纳西亚蜉（Ephemera cf. parnassiana Demoulin），该物种此前仅在希腊有记录。
