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Süßwasserfauna von Mitteleuropa, Bd. 21/26 Empididae

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  • May 2024
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Authors:
  1. Rüdiger Wagner

    1. Schlitz, Germany

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  2. Marija Ivković

    1. Department of Biology, University of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia

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  3. Adrian Plant

    1. Research Facilitation and Dissemination, Mahasarakham University, Mahasarakham, Thailand

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  • An up-to-date summation of knowledge on aquatic dance flies
  • Provides basis for future work with new methods in times of environmental change
  • Morphological characters of all genera and species figured

Part of the book series: Süßwasserfauna von Mitteleuropa (424)

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Keywords

  • Empidoidea
  • Hemerodromiinae
  • Clinocerinae
  • aquatic dance flies
  • environmental change

About this book

This book is an up-to-date synopsis of aquatic dance flies (Clinocerinae and Hemerodromiinae), insects that have been studied for more than 200 years in Europe. Its publication comes about 80 years since the last summary report and follows a period when new scientific methods were applied to long-standing unresolved taxonomical, systematic problems. In a period of environmental change, it also provides information for habitat conservation.

The inclusion of data for larvae, pupae and adults is aimed not only at professional scientists, but will be of interest to amateur researchers.

The work provides comprehensive information on the morphology, ecology, behavior, flight period and geographical distribution of individual species.

Keys for males of all species together with drawings of terminalia are given, although females must still be associated with active males. Keys to larvae and pupae are provided wherever possible.

Drawings and photographs of wings andmale terminalia are supplemented by photographs of larvae, pupae and adults of characteristic, widespread European species in their natural environment.

The book covers the Central European Fauna and includes a few additional species from North Europe and Great Britain. Further, at the end of the presentation of every genus, all species described to date from all over Europe are listed so that people working in other European countries and even adjacent areas may get quick access to relevant information for their research and species identification. This is necessary because environmental change will affect distribution and abundance of genera and species restricted either to high-altitude mountains or to drying-up of streams and rivers.

Authors and Affiliations

  • Schlitz, Germany

    Rüdiger Wagner

  • Department of Biology, University of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia

    Marija Ivković

  • Research Facilitation and Dissemination, Mahasarakham University, Mahasarakham, Thailand

    Adrian Plant

About the authors

​Rüdiger Wagner is a retired Researcher on zoology and limnology of the former River Station of the Max-Planck-Society and University of Kassel, interested in effects of environmental change on aquatic Diptera in the course of time.

Marija Ivković is Associate Professor at the University of Zagreb, Croatia, interested in ecology, systematics, phylogeny and biogeography of aquatic Diptera, with special emphasis on aquatic Empididae, Clinocerinae and Hemerodromiinae.

Adrian Plant is a Senior Researcher at Mahasarakham University, Thailand, interested in systematics, ecology and behaviour of Empidoidea, especially Hemerodromiinae.



Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Süßwasserfauna von Mitteleuropa, Bd. 21/26 Empididae

  • Authors: Rüdiger Wagner, Marija Ivković, Adrian Plant

  • Series Title: Süßwasserfauna von Mitteleuropa

  • Publisher: Springer Spektrum Berlin, Heidelberg

  • eBook Packages: Biomedical and Life Sciences, Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer-Verlag GmbH, DE, part of Springer Nature 2024

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-662-68419-1Due: 30 May 2024

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-662-68420-7Due: 30 May 2024

  • Series ISSN: 2731-359X

  • Series E-ISSN: 2731-3603

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: VIII, 150

  • Number of Illustrations: 49 b/w illustrations, 7 illustrations in colour

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