Micropsectra bodanica Reiss, 1969

Micropsectra bodanica Reiss, 1969 View in CoL

Material examined.

• 1 male, Lake Vinderel (M 2), 1 July 2023 .

Distribution.

Palaearctic. The species has so far been recorded from only a few countries, such as Germany, Austria, and Portugal, with its occurrence in Corsica and Slovakia not yet confirmed ( Moubayed-Breil and Ashe 2012; Novikmec et al. 2015).

Habitat.

Ecological requirements of the species are still inadequately understood. Reiss (1969) considered the species (together with M. attenuata ) as cold stenothermic and polyoxybiontic, typically inhabiting mosses on stones in springs and the upper stretches of streams (see also Langton and Visser 2003). Records of the pupal exuviae of M. attenuata / bodanica in the Western Carpathians come from headwater streams (one even artificially modified) with stony bottoms but without moss growths ( Novikmec et al. 2015). It can be assumed that the collected adult male comes from a spring or small stream flowing in Lake Vinderel.

Remarks.

Since the pupal exuviae of M. bodanica are indistinguishable from those of M. attenuata ( Langton and Visser 2003) , the first record of M. bodanica based on an adult male in Romania is particularly valuable.