<abstract xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p><italic>Leucorrhinia caudalis</italic> is listed on the European Red List as near threatened. The species had been thought to be extinct in the Czech Republic for the last fifty years, until an accidental discovery of adult males in 2012. In 2014, larvae <italic>of Leucorrhinia caudalis</italic> were recorded from water reservoirs in the Česká Lípa region, northern Bohemia, for the first time. Thus, it is the first breeding site of <italic>L. caudalis</italic> in the Czech Republic. A male <italic>Leucorrhinia caudalis</italic> was also repeatedly recorded in Havířov-Dolní Suchá in the north-eastern Czech Republic.</p></abstract>

Leucorrhinia caudalis is listed on the European Red List as near threatened. The species had been thought to be extinct in the Czech Republic for the last fifty years, until an accidental discovery of adult males in 2012. In 2014, larvae of Leucorrhinia caudalis were recorded from water reservoirs in the Česká Lípa region, northern Bohemia, for the first time. Thus, it is the first breeding site of L. caudalis in the Czech Republic. A male Leucorrhinia caudalis was also repeatedly recorded in Havířov-Dolní Suchá in the north-eastern Czech Republic.

New Records of Lilypad Whiteface <italic>Leucorrhinia Caudalis</italic> (Odonata: Libellulidae) in the Czech Republic

Department of Biology and Ecology/Institute of Environmental Technologies, Faculty of Science, University of Ostrava, Chittussiho 10, 710 00 Ostrava

Správa CHKO Lužické hory, Školní 12, 471 25 Jablonné v Podještědí

Acta Musei Silesiae, Scientiae Naturales

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New Records of Lilypad Whiteface  (Odonata: Libellulidae) in the Czech Republic

Leucorrhinia caudalis is listed on the European Red List as near threatened. The species had been thought to be extinct in the Czech Republic for the last...

New Records of Lilypad Whiteface Leucorrhinia Caudalis (Odonata: Libellulidae) in the Czech Republic

Published Online: Nov 20, 2014

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/cszma-2014-0019

Keywords
lilypad whiteface, dragonflies, breeding site, larva, rediscovering

© 2014 Aleš Dolný et. al.

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New Records of Lilypad Whiteface Leucorrhinia Caudalis (Odonata: Libellulidae) in the Czech Republic

Published Online: Nov 20, 2014

Page range: -

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/cszma-2014-0019

Keywordslilypad whiteface, dragonflies, breeding site, larva, rediscovering

© 2014 Aleš Dolný et. al.

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Keywords
lilypad whiteface, dragonflies, breeding site, larva, rediscovering