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

By

Graf, Wolfram
Konar, Martin
Murányi, Dávid
Orci, Kirill
Vitecek, Simon

Type

Article

Date of Publication

2014

Original Publication

ZooKeys

Volume

448

Pages

27-36

Subjects

Austria , endemism , Isoperla , new species , Slovenia , Southern Alps

Contributed by

Pensoft Publishers

Language

English

Published by

Sofia, Bulgaria Pensoft Publishers

Identifiers

DOI: https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.448.8509

 

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.