Rhyacophila loeffleri Valladolid & Waringer & Arauzo & Chvojka & Dorda & Komzák & Lodovici & Rey 2023, n. sp.
Creators: name: Valladolid, Maria
name: Waringer, Johann
name: Arauzo, Mercedes
name: Chvojka, Pavel
name: Dorda, Beatriz A.
name: Komzák, Petr
name: Lodovici, Omar
name: Rey, Isabel
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Trichoptera
Rhyacophilidae
Rhyacophila
Rhyacophila loeffleri

description: Rhyacophila loeffleri Valladolid & Waringer, n. sp.
Introduction: This species has been found widely distributed in Austria and Switzerland, as well as in small areas of northeastern Italy, southcentral Czech Republic, southern Germany and northern France. Probably the species can be found also in northeastern France and northern Slovenia, but these areas should be studied in detail. The male and female of this new species were described previously by Valladolid et al. (2018) as R. fasciata.
Derivatio nominis: Given in honour of Professor Dr Heinz Löffler (17.iii.1927 – 13.x.2006), Austrian (paleo-) limnologist, ecologist and environmentalist. Professor of Limnology at the University of Vienna, Austria. Together with his mentor (G. E. Hutchinson), he established the thermal classification of lakes (mixis types) in a world-wide context (Hutchinson & Löffler 1956).
Material Examined:
Holotype ♁: AUSTRIA (LOE 19), St. Konrad-Häusern, Upper Austria, 47.914N, 13.898E, 580 m a.s.l., 05/ v/2018, leg. F. Pühringer [MNCN _Ent 325489 (MNCN)]
Paratypes: AUSTRIA [MNCN: 11 ♁♁, 8 ♀♀]; 5 ♁♁, 5 ♀♀, Dunkelsteiner Wald, Halterbach, Lower Austria, 03/vii/2010 (H. Malicky) [5 ♁♁, MNCN _ Ent 325498–325499, MNCN _ Ent 325502–325504; 5 ♀♀, MNCN _ Ent 325500–325501, MNCN _Ent 325505–325507]; 2 ♁♁ + 1 ♀, Semmering, 24/x/2016 (W. Graf) [2 ♁♁, MNCN _ Ent 325482–325483; 1 ♀, MNCN _ Ent 325481]; 1 ♁ + 2 ♀♀, Magdalensberg, Lassendorf, Carinthia, 26/viii/2017, (C. Wieser) [1 ♁, MNCN _Ent 325484; 2 ♀♀, MNCN _Ent 325485–325486]; 1 ♁, Völkermarkt, Neudenstein Atoll, 11/v/2018 (C. Wieser) [MNCN _Ent 325487]; 1 ♁, Ossiach, Tiebelmündung, Carinthia, 02/vii/2018 (C. Wieser) [MNCN _Ent 325488]; 1 ♁, SE Rohn im Gebirge, Lower Austria, 17/vi/2019 (H. Malicky) [MNCN _Ent 325497].
CZECH REPUBLIC. [KPC: 2 ♁♁]: 1 ♁, right tributary of Klaperův potok brook below Starý pond, Čížov, 7/x/2013 (P. Komzák). 1 ♁, Hamerský potok brook, mouth, south of Zadní Hamry, 20/vii/2013 (P. Komzák).
FRANCE. [OPIE: 3 ♁♁, 1 ♀]: 1 ♁ + 1 ♀, Butz stream near catchment, Balaives et Butz, Ardennes, 05/vi/2013 (G. Coppa) [T6286]. 1 ♁, Brouhan stream, catchment, Autrecourt, Ardennes, 06/vi/2018 (G. Coppa) [T7920]. 1 ♁, Matton stream, downstream of village spill bridge, Matton-et-Clémency, Ardennes, 19/x/2017 (G. Coppa) [T7371].
ITALY. [MCSN: 1 ♁, 1 ♀]: canal, left tributary of the Palar torrent, Trasaghis (Udine), Friuli Venezia Giulia, 30/x/2021 (O. Lodovici & P. Pantini) [ID Data number of Access Catalog 42406].
description: Published as part of Valladolid, Maria, Waringer, Johann, Arauzo, Mercedes, Chvojka, Pavel, Dorda, Beatriz A., Komzák, Petr, Lodovici, Omar & Rey, Isabel, 2023, The Rhyacophila fasciata Species Complex (Trichoptera: Rhyacophilidae) in Central Europe with description of a new species, Rhyacophila loeffleri Valladolid & Waringer, n. sp., based on morphological, genetic and ecological evidence., pp. 451-482 in Zootaxa 5325 (4) on page 461, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5325.4.1, http://zenodo.org/record/8243592