A new species of Isoperla (Insecta, Plecoptera) from the Karawanken, with considerations on the Southern Limestone Alps as centers of endemism

Wolfram Graf; Martin Konar; Dávid Murányi; Kirill Márk Orci; Simon Vitecek

doi:10.3897/zookeys.448.8509

A new species of Isoperla (Insecta, Plecoptera) from the Karawanken, with considerations on the Southern Limestone Alps as centers of endemism

Zookeys. 2014 Oct 20:(448):27-36. doi: 10.3897/zookeys.448.8509. eCollection 2014.

Authors

Wolfram Graf¹, Martin Konar², Dávid Murányi³, Kirill Márk Orci⁴, Simon Vitecek⁵

Affiliations

¹ Institute of Hydrobiology and Aquatic Ecosystem Management, University of Natural Resources and Applied Life Sciences, Max Emanuel-Strasse 17, A-1180 Vienna, Austria.
² Amt der Kärntner Landesregierung, Abteilung 8 (Kompetenzzentrum Umwelt, Wasser und Naturschutz), Kärntner Institut für Seenforschung, 9020 Klagenfurt am Wörthersee, Kirchengasse 43, Austria.
³ Department of Zoology, Hungarian Natural History Museum, Baross u. 13, H-1088 Budapest, Hungary.
⁴ MTA-ELTE-MTM Ecology Research Group, Pázmány Péter s. 1/C, H-1117 Budapest, Hungary.
⁵ Department of Limnology & Bio-Oceanography, Faculty of Life Sciences, University of Vienna, Althanstrasse 14, A-1090 Vienna, Austria.

Abstract

A new species of the genus Isoperla (Plecoptera, Perlodidae), belonging to the oxylepis species-group is described, and the male mating call is characterized. Its range falls within a small region of the Southern Limestone Alps which is well known to be one endemism-centre of aquatic insects.

Keywords: Austria; Isoperla; Slovenia; Southern Alps; endemism; new species.