title: The larvae of the European species of genus Apataniana Mosely, 1936 (Trichoptera, Apataniidae): descriptions, key and ecology.
abstract: This paper describes the previously unknown or insufficiently known larvae of Apataniana hellenica, Apataniana stropones and Apataniana vardusia. Species association was enabled by the fact that the three micro-endemic Apataniana larvae are restricted to Greece and the only Apataniidae species recorded in European ecoregion 6 (Hellenic Western Balkan; Graf et al. 2008), and that the endemic status of the three species clearly defined their non-overlapping sampling ranges. Information on the morphology of the larvae is given, and the most important diagnostic features are illustrated.
authors.affiliation: Department of Limnology and Bio-Oceanography, Faculty of Life Sciences, University of Vienna, Austria.
authors.forename: Johann
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Waringer
authors.affiliation: Sonnengasse 13, A-3293 Lunz am See, Austria.
authors.forename: Hans
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Malicky
keywords: Description; distribution; ecology; identification; larvae