International Zoological Congress of “Grigore Antipa” Museum

19 - 22 November 2014 Bucharest - Romania

Book of Abstracts

Edited by: Luis Ovidiu Popa, Costică Adam, Gabriel Chişamera, Elena Iorgu, Dumitru Murariu, Oana Paula Popa

International Zoological Congress of “Grigore Antipa” Museum 19 - 22 November 2014 BUCHAREST, ROMANIA

Book of Abstracts

Edited by: Luis Ovidiu Popa, Costică Adam, Gabriel Chişamera, Elena Iorgu, Dumitru Murariu, Oana Paula Popa CZGA 2014 ORGANIZING COMMITTEE Chair: Luis Ovidiu POPA (“Grigore Antipa” National Museum of Natural History) Members: Costică ADAM (“Grigore Antipa” National Museum of Natural History) Gabriel CHIŞAMERA (“Grigore Antipa” National Museum of Natural History) Marieta COSTACHE (Faculty of Biology, University of Bucharest, Romania) Elena Iulia IORGU (“Grigore Antipa” National Museum of Natural History) Ionuţ Ştefan IORGU (“Grigore Antipa” National Museum of Natural History) Dumitru MURARIU (“Grigore Antipa” National Museum of Natural History) Oana Paula POPA (“Grigore Antipa” National Museum of Natural History) Paula POPOIU (National Village Museum “Dimitrie Gusti”, Bucharest, Romania) Melania STAN (“Grigore Antipa” National Museum of Natural History) CZGA 2014 SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE Chair: Acad. Maya SIMIONESCU President of the Section of Biological Sciences - Romanian Academy; Director of the Institute for Cellular Biology and Pathology „Nicolae Simionescu”, The Romanian Academy, Bucharest, Romania Members: Dr. Imad CHERKAOUI Biology Department, Faculty of Sciences, “Mohammed V” University - Agdal, Rabat, Morocco; Executive Director of GREPOM - BirdLife Affiliate in Morocco Univ. Prof. Dr. Dan COGĂLNICEANU Faculty of Natural and Agricultural Science, “Ovidius” University of Constanţa, Romania Assoc. Prof. Dr. Ioan COROIU Faculty of Biology and Geology, “Babeş-Bolyai” University of Cluj-Napoca, Romania Univ. Prof. Dr. Marieta COSTACHE Director of the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Faculty of Biology, University of Bucharest, Romania Univ. Prof. Dr. Anca DINISCHIOTU Faculty of Biology, University of Bucharest, Romania Dr. Karel DOUDA Department of Zoology and Fisheries, Faculty of Agrobiology Food and Natural Resources, Czech Univer- sity of Life Sciences Prague, Czech Republic Univ. Prof. Dr. Leopold FÜREDER Institute of Ecology, University of Innsbruck, Austria Univ. Prof. Dr. Marian Traian GOMOIU Corresponding member of the Romanian Academy, Romania Dr. Modest GUŢU “Grigore Antipa” National Museum of Natural History, Bucharest, Romania Dr. Georgeta IONESCU Forest Research and Management Institute (ICAS), Brașov, Romania Univ. Prof. Dr. Boris KRYŠTUFEK Head of Vertebrate Department, Slovenian Museum of Natural History, Ljubljana, Slovenia Univ. Prof. Dr. Lotus Elena MEŞTER Faculty of Biology, University of Bucharest, Romania Dr. Dan MUNTEANU Corresponding member of the Romanian Academy, Romania Dr. Dumitru MURARIU Corresponding member of the Romanian Academy; General Director of “Grigore Antipa” National Muse- um of Natural History, Bucharest, Romania Dr. Ileana NEGOESCU “Grigore Antipa” National Museum of Natural History, Bucharest, Romania Dr. Eugen NIŢU “Emil Racoviţă” Institute of Speleology of the Romanian Academy, Bucharest, Romania Acad. Octavian POPESCU Director of the Institute of Biology of the Romanian Academy, Bucharest, Romania Univ. Prof. Dr. Abdeljebbar QNINBA Research group for the wetlands management, Scientific Institute, “Mohammed V” University - Agdal, Rabat, Morocco Dr. Martin REICHARD Department of Fish Ecology, Institute of Vertebrate Biology, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Brno, Czech Republic Assoc. Prof. Dr. Ioan SÎRBU Faculty of Sciences, Department of Ecology and Environmental Protection, “Lucian Blaga” University, Sibiu, Romania Assoc. Prof. Dr. Marius SKOLKA Faculty of Natural and Agricultural Science, “Ovidius” University of Constanţa, Romania Assoc. Prof. Dr. Victor SURUGIU Faculty of Biology, “Alexandru Ioan Cuza” University of Iaşi, Romania Dr. Oldřich SYCHRA Department of Biology and Wildlife Diseases, Faculty of Veterinary Hygiene and Ecology, University of Veterinary and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Brno, Czech Republic Acad. Dr. hab. Ion TODERAŞ Director of the Institute of Zoology of the Academy of Science of Moldavia, Kishinev, Moldavia Dr. Abraham bij de VAATE Director of “Waterfauna Hydrobiological Consultancy”, Lelystad, The Netherlands Dr. Mark WILKINSON Merit Researcher, Life Sciences Department, LS Vertebrates Division, Natural History Museum, London, United Kingdom Univ. Prof. Dr. hab. Bronisław W. WOŁOSZYN Institute of Systematics and Evolution of Animals, Polish Academy of Sciences, Kraków, Poland Univ. Prof. Dr. Otilia ZĂRNESCU Faculty of Biology, University of Bucharest, Romania Patronage: “Grigore Antipa” National Museum of Natural History, Bucharest, Romania

Main Partner: CSR Mindset Partners: The Romanian Academy - Section of Biological Sciences University of Bucharest - Faculty of Biology, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

Popa, L. O., C. Adam, G. Chişamera, E. Iorgu, D. Murariu, O. P. Popa (eds) 2014. International Zoological Congress of “Grigore Antipa” Museum - Book of abstracts. “Grigore Antipa” National Museum of Natural History, Bucharest, Romania.

ISBN: 978-606-92462-8-3

Cover design: Adrian Mihalcea-Suru Editorial assistance: Mihaela Barcan-Achim Technical assistance: Ana-Maria Krapal

© 2014, “Grigore Antipa” National Museum of Natural History, Bucharest, Romania

Printed by “Editura MEDIALUX”, Bucharest, Romania Summary

CZGA 2014 Programme 19 Invited speakers Lutz BACHMANN - Exploring the treasures of natural history collections; lessons from flatworms and whales 39 Alberto BALLERIO - Current topics in Zoological Nomenclature: ZooBank, Electronic Publication and Taxonomic Vandalism 40 Josef BRYJA - African rodents - important biogeographical model group despite poor knowledge of their alpha taxonomy 41 Saâd HANANE - The importance of Moroccan irrigated perimeters as breeding areas for migratory gamebirds: The case study of the Turtle dove (Streptopelia turtur) 42 Andrei Daniel MIHALCA - Threatened or threatening? Conservation biology of parasites and their host 43 Dumitru MURARIU - Actuality of zoology in the context of unprecedented development of the biological sciences 44 Frank WESSELINGH*, Luis Ovdiu POPA, Marius STOICA, Suzanne LEROY, Rachel FLECKER, Tom WILKE, Tamara YANINA, Wout KRIJGSMAN, Hülya ALÇIÇEK, Vitaliy NISTRATENKO, Elmira ALIYEVA, Matthias PRANGE, Joy SINGARAYER, Christian ALBRECHT, Arjan GITTENBERGER, Pavel FROLOV, Hemmo ABELS, Angela BRUCH, Arjan de LEEUW, Cihat ALÇIÇEK, Yesim BUYUKMERIC, Niels RAES, Alexey TESAKOV - Drivers of Pontocaspian biodiversity Rise and Demise 46 Oral presentations Taxonomy. Faunistics. Zoogeography Mehmet Zeki YILDIRIM, Ümit KEBAPÇI - Nonmarine mollusks of parasitological importance in the Lakes Region ofTurkey 49 Victor SURUGIU - On the taxonomic status of Scolelepis Blainville, 1828 (Polychaeta: Spionidae) from the Black Sea 50 Omid JOHARCHI - Review of the genus Hypoaspis Canestrini (Acari: Laelapidae) occurring in the Western Palaearctic Region 51

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Constanța-Mihaela ION - Inventory and distribution data of centipedes (Myriapoda: Chilopoda) from south Romania (Muntenia province) 52

Fran REBRINA - The case of Platycleis kraussi Padewieth, 1900 – solving an orthopterological mystery 53 Josip SKEJO - European Tetrigidae: how far we are from the stable taxonomic state 54 Emilian PRICOP - Contribution to the study of Anaphes Haliday (Hymenoptera: Mymaridae) from Romania, including new records and taxonomic notes 55 Irinel E. POPESCU - The family Ormyridae (Hymenoptera: Chalcidoidea: Ormyridae) in Romania 56 Irinel E. POPESCU - First record of Sceliphron curvatum (Smith, 1870) and new data about the distribution of S. caementarium (Drury, 1770) in Romania (Hymenoptera: Sphecidae) 58

Adebowale Hammed ADEDEJI, Azubike CHUKWUKA, Olukayode Amos SOGBESAN - Incidence of hybridization among the tilapiine cichlids in Eleyele Reservoir, southwest Nigeria 59

Alexandru IFTIME - Newly determined fish specimens from the Anton Bruun, Vitiaz, Ekvator and Thalassa cruises 60 Alexandru Nicolae STERMIN, Alin DAVID, Ioan COROIU - Neighbors vs. foreigners – in Water Rail (Rallus aquaticus) acoustic communication 61

Ioan COROIU, Anda CULIȘIR, Regina KLÜPPEL, Crin THEODORESCU, Alin DAVID, Alexandru Nicolae STERMIN - Seasonal dynamics of Mouse-Eared bats (Myotis myotis/blythii) in Northern Romania 62 Phylogenetics, Evolution and Systematics Denis COPILAȘ-CIOCIANU, Lucian PÂRVULESCU, Petr PAŘIL, Adam PETRUSEK - The Carpathian Mountains: a biodiversity hotspot for freshwater Gammarus (Crustacea: Amphipoda) 63

Oldřich Sychra, Ivan Literák, Miroslav Čapek, Daniel L. Gustafsson, Jan Štefka,Jana Martinů - Phylogeny of the chewing louse genus Menacanthus (Phthiraptera: Amblycera) - host generalists and specialists emerging side by side 64

Maria-Magdalena DASCĂLU, Lucian FUSU - Genetic differentiation of Dorcadion pusillum populations in the western part of its distribution area (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae) 65

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Lucian FUSU, Andrew POLASZEK - Looking for a needle in a haystack: sex association in a Dicopomorpa-like species with aberrant males using DNA sequences (Hymenoptera: Mymaridae) 66 Alexandru IFTIME, Oana IFTIME - The biological species concept: insights from ichthyology and herpetology 67 Palaeontology

Ümit KEBAPÇI, Mehmet Zeki YILDIRIM - Plio-Pleistocene malacofaunas of the Lake Burdur Basin 68 Maksim CHEPRASOV, Semyon GRIGORIEV, Gavril NOVGORODOV, Тheodor OBADĂ, Konstantin PROTODIAKONOV - The last discoveries of frozen ancient animal carcasses in Yakutia (Northeastern Russia) 69

Ştefan VASILE, Emese Réka BODOR, Zoltán CSIKI-SAVA, Zoltán SZENTESI - “Neighbour, I think we have termites!” – Isopteran feeding traces from the Upper Cretaceous of Hungary and Romania 71

Ştefan VASILE, Márton VENCZEL, Zoltán CSIKI-SAVA, Ana ALEXANDRU - New data on the taxonomical affinities of Late Cretaceous albanerpetontids from the Haţeg Basin (western Romania) 72 Ecology Ana Bianca PAVEL, Priscila OPREANU, Irina CATIANIS, Silviu RADAN, Neculai PATRICHE - Preliminary data regarding the present state of benthic fauna from Trei Ozere and Bogdaproste Lakes, Danube Delta, Romania 73

Sukanlaya TANTIWISAWARUJI, Ana SILVA, Uthaiwan KOVITVADHI, Miguel A. PARDAL, Maria J. ROCHA, Eduardo ROCHA - Do body size and sex shape the neural ganglia volume and cellularity in bivalves? A study using as model organism the adult peppery furrow shell (Scrobicularia plana) 74

Geta RÎŞNOVEANU, Marius BUJOR - Epigean arthropod response to the experimental design 75 Minodora MANU, Marilena ONETE, Virgil IORDACHE - Edaphic mite communities on polluted grasslands from Trascău Mountains (Romania) 76 Cristina - Maria POPESCU, Geta RÎŞNOVEANU, Marius BUJOR - How experimental design can influence research results: preliminary results from terrestrial Diptera communites 77

Hussein B. B. JENJAN, Fathe Ben-Ali S. A. FARAG, Fatima A. AL-ALWANY, Aisha S. JUMME - Gill morphometry of Tilapia zillii: potential use of gills as a welfare indicator in wild fish 78

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Olukayode Amos SOGBESAN, Emmanuel Yohanna NGADINA - Piscicidal effect of Adenium obesum bark water on Clarias gariepinus hybrid 79

Sebastian Theodor TOPLICEANU, Florina STĂNESCU, Diana SZÉKELY, Paul SZÉKELY, Dan COGĂLNICEANU - Age-related parameters in a Pelobates fuscus (Anura: Pelobatidae) population from NW Romania over a decade 80

Alexandru STRUGARIU, Iulian GHERGHEL, Paul C. DINCĂ, Tiberiu C. SAHLEAN, Ștefan R. ZAMFIRESCU - Ecology and current status of the Nikolsky’s viper (Vipera (berus) nikolskii) in Romania 81

Özden YALÇIN, Nihat GÜLDAŞ, Kiraz ERCIYAS-YAVUZ, Ali OKUR, Ahmet ÇOK, Hakan YOĞURTÇU - The relationship between nest box design, occupancy and breeding parameters of some bird species 82

Bronisław W. WOŁOSZYN, Grzegorz KŁYS, Dominika OLSZEWSKA, Andrzej J. WÓJCIK - Biostalactites – bat origin organic stalactites 83

Edoardo VERNIER, Bronisław W. WOŁOSZYN - The bats of the cave “Grotta Zinzulusa” of Castro Marina (Province of Lecce, S.E. Italy) with notes on the presence of Rhinolophus mehelyi Matschie, 1901 in the Italian Peninsula 85 Ekaterina KONDRATYUK, Ivan POLIKARPOV, Eugene NOVIKOV - The retardation of maturation in red-backed voles (Myodes rutilus) doesn’t increase their longevity in laboratory conditions 86 Forensic entomology

Lavinia IANCU, Cristina PURCĂREA - Temperature dependence of necrophagous insect species diversity and dynamics in an experimental forensic model 87 Invasive species

Ion TODERAŞ - Biological invasions in water and terrestrial ecosystems of the Republic of Moldova 88 Cristina PREDA, Daniyar MEMEDEMIN, Sven BACHER - Prioritizing invasive alien species: a national approach 89 Luis Ovidiu POPA, Ana-Maria KRAPAL, Oana Paula POPA, Elena Iulia IORGU, Abraham bij de VAATE - Insights into the invasion process of zebra mussel (Dreissena polymorpha) in The Netherlands 90

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