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Adicella syriaca (Trichoptera: Leptoceridae) in Slovakia – the northernmost record from Central Europe. Spreading of an aquatic insect in the period of climate change?

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We present the first record of the caddisfly species Adicella syriaca Ulmer, 1907 from Slovakia, which is also the northernmost record of the species so far. Based on the literature data, we can conclude that the species spread 250 km northwards, compared to the previous records, inhabiting north Pannonian rivers, including the Danube floodplain (the Upper Danube). We suppose that a possible explanation for the species range shift is the climate change, since this can lead to changes in species distribution. For aquatic invertebrates, more studies predicted occurrence shifts, but specific examples are not common.

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We would like to express our gratitude to the editor and two anonymous reviewers for their valuable comments, which helped to improve the earlier draft of the manuscript.

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This study was financially supported by the Scientific Grant Agency of the Ministry of Education, Science, Research and Sport of the Slovak Republic and the Slovak Academy of Sciences: VEGA projects no. 1/0119/16 (to T. Navara, I. Kokavec, J. Cíbik), and no. 2/0063/19 (to T. Navara, I. Kokavec); by the LIFE programme: project LIFE14 NAT/SK/001306 (to T. Navara, I. Kokavec); and by the Ministry of Culture of the Czech Republic (DKRVO 2018/12, 2019–2023/5.I.a, National Museum, 00023272) (to P. Chvojka).

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  1. Institute of Zoology, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Dúbravská cesta 9, 84506, Bratislava, Slovakia

    Tomáš Navara & Igor Kokavec

  2. Department of Ecology, Faculty of Natural Sciences, Comenius University in Bratislava, Mlynská dolina, Ilkovičova 6, 84215, Bratislava, Slovakia

    Jakub Cíbik & Jozef Lukáš

  3. Department of Entomology, National Museum, Cirkusová 1740, 19300, Praha 9, Czech Republic

    Pavel Chvojka

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Navara, T., Kokavec, I., Cíbik, J. et al. Adicella syriaca (Trichoptera: Leptoceridae) in Slovakia – the northernmost record from Central Europe. Spreading of an aquatic insect in the period of climate change?. Biologia 75, 2321–2326 (2020). https://doi.org/10.2478/s11756-020-00486-y

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