TY  - JOUR
A1  - Hjalmarsson, Anna Emilia
A1  - Graf, Wolfram
A1  - Jähnig, Sonja Charlotte
A1  - Vitecek, Simon
A1  - Pauls, Steffen U.
T1  - Molecular association and morphological characterisation of Himalopsyche larval types (Trichoptera, Rhyacophilidae)
T2  - ZooKeys
N2  - Himalopsyche Banks, 1940 (Trichoptera, Rhyacophilidae) is a genus of caddisflies inhabiting mountain and alpine environments in Central and East Asia and the Nearctic. Of 53 known species, only five species have been described previously in the aquatic larval stage. We perform life stage association using three strategies (GMYC, PTP, and reciprocal monophyly) based on fragments of two molecular markers: the nuclear CAD, and the mitochondrial COI gene. A total of 525 individuals from across the range of Himalopsyche (Himalayas, Hengduan Shan, Tian Shan, South East Asia, Japan, and western North America) was analysed and 32 operational taxonomic units (OTUs) in our dataset delimited. Four distinct larval types of Himalopsyche are uncovered, and these are defined as the phryganea type, japonica type, tibetana type, and gigantea type and a comparative morphological characterisation of the larval types is presented. The larval types differ in a number of traits, most prominently in their gill configuration, as well as in other features such as setal configuration of the pronotum and presence/absence of accessory hooks of the anal prolegs.
KW  - Caddisfly
KW  - GMYC
KW  - Hengduan Mountains
KW  - Himalaya
KW  - life stage association
KW  - PTP
Y1  - 2018
UR  - http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/47173
UR  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-471738
SN  - 1313-2970
SN  - 1313-2989
N1  - Copyright Anna E. Hjalmarsson et al. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY 4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
VL  - 773
SP  - 79
EP  - 108
PB  - Pensoft Publishers
CY  - Sofia, Bulgaria
ER  -