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Book of Abstracts International Zoological Congress of “Grigore Antipa” Museum 18 - 21 November 2015 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 18 - 21 November 2015 BUCHAREST, ROMANIA Book of Abstracts Edited by: Luis Ovidiu Popa, Costică Adam, Gabriel Chişamera, Elena Iorgu, Dumitru Murariu, Oana Paula Popa CZGA 2015 ORGANIZING COMMITTEE Chair: Luis Ovidiu POPA (“Grigore Antipa” National Museum of Natural History) Members: Costică AA (“Grigore Antipa” National Museum of Natural History) Gabriel CAA (“Grigore Antipa” National Museum of Natural History) Marieta COSTACHE (Faculty of Biology, University of Bucharest, Romania) Larisa-Bianca DUMITRESCU (“Grigore Antipa” National Museum of Natural History) Elena Iulia IORGU (“Grigore Antipa” National Museum of Natural History) ou tea OG (“Grigore Antipa” National Museum of Natural History) Ana-Maria KRAPAL (“Grigore Antipa” National Museum of Natural History) Oana Paula POPA (“Grigore Antipa” National Museum of Natural History) Florentina PURDESCU (“Grigore Antipa” National Museum of Natural History) Melanya STAN (“Grigore Antipa” National Museum of Natural History) CZGA 2015 SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE Dr. Imad CHERKAOUI Biology Department, Faculty of Sciences, “Mohammed V” University - Agdal, Rabat, Morocco; Executive Director of GREPOM - BirdLife Affliate in Morocco iv Pro r a COGLCA 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 Univ. Prof. Dr. Marian Traian GOMOIU Corresponding member of the Romanian Academy, Romania r odest G “Grigore Antipa” National Museum of Natural History, Bucharest, Romania Univ. Prof. Dr. Boris KRYŠTUFEK Head of Vertebrate Department, Slovenian Museum of Natural History, Ljubljana, Slovenia iv Pro r Lotus lea 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 Museum of Natural History, Bucharest, Romania Dr. Ileana NEGOESCU “Grigore Antipa” National Museum of Natural History, Bucharest, Romania 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 r Oldich CA Department of Biology and Wildlife Diseases, Faculty of Veterinary Hygiene and Ecology, University of Veterinary and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Brno, Czech Republic Acad r hab o OA Director of the Institute of Zoology of the Academy of Science of Moldavia, Kishinev, Moldavia Dr. Abraham bi de AA Director of “Waterfauna Hydrobiological Consultancy”, Lelystad, The Netherlands iv Pro r hab roisa OO Institute of Systematics and Evolution of Animals, Polish Academy of Sciences, Kraków, Poland Patronage: “Grigore Antipa” National Museum of Natural History, Bucharest, Romania Partners: he omaia Academ - Section of Biological Sciences iversit o ucharest - Faculty of Biology, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Popa, L O, C Adam, G Chişamera, oru, urariu, O P Popa eds International Zoological Congress of “Grigore Antipa” Museum - Book of abstracts. “Grigore Antipa” National Museum of Natural History, Bucharest, Romania. ISSN: 2457-9777 ISSN-L: 2457-9769 Cover design: Adria ihalceauru Editorial assistance: ihaela arcaAchim Ana-Maria Krapal Larisa-Bianca Dumitrescu , Griore Atipa atioal useum o atural istor, ucharest, omaia Printed by S.C. “INTERBRAND IMPEX” S.R.L. Str. Oboga, nr. 19-23, sector 6, București, România, Tel.: 004/031/401.61.62; 004/031/401.61.63; 004/073/308.74.58 e-mail: [email protected]; [email protected] Summary CZGA 2015 Programme 21 Invited speakers Zeev ARAD - Resistance to desiccation and heat in Land Snails: from the whole animal to molecular mechanisms 43 Rafael ARAUJO - Knowing and conserving the West Palearctic naiads 44 Angelika BRANDT - From early biological deep-sea expeditions to present investigations – results and perspectives 45 Timothy J. EHLINGER - Riding the infnity wave: operationalizing resilience principles in natural resource stewardship 47 Elisabeth HARING, Helmut SATTMANN, Nikolaus SZUCSICH - ABOL - The Austrian Barcode of Life-Initiative 48 Boris KRYŠTUFEK - Who cares about natural history collections? 49 Johan MICHAUX - Why some species disappear and other expand? The example of the minks and the European otter 50 Eduardo ROLDAN, Maximiliano TOURMENTE, María VAREA- SÁNCHEZ, Lena LÜKE - Evolution of reproductive genes and male traits in mammals 51 Helmut SATTMANN, Christoph HÖRWEG, Christian HUSCH, Julia WALOCHNIK - The American Giant Liver Fluke: heading further south toward the Black Sea 52 Víctor SÁNCHEZ-CORDERO - Climate change and biodiversity: two study cases 54 Thomas WILKE - Ancient Lake Ohrid: linking geological and biological evolution 55 Oral presentations Taxonomy. Faunistics. Zoogeography Vitaliy ANISTRATENKO - Towards a phylogeography of the Ponto-Caspian mollusks inhabiting the Azov-Black Sea Basin 59 Lucian PÂRVULESCU, Mălina PÎRVU, Loredana‑Giorgiana MOROȘAN, Claudia ZAHARIA - Plasticity in fecundity highlights the females’ importance in the spiny-cheek crayfsh invasion mechanism 60 – 5 – Summary Cosmin Ovidiu MANCI, Irinel Eugen POPESCU - More than ffty years after the last recording of Leucorrhinia pectoralis (Charpentier, 1825) (Odonata: Libellulidae) in Romania 61 Irinel Eugen POPESCU, Ionuț Ștefan IORGU - Second confrmed station for Carabus hungaricus (Fabricius, 1792) (Coleoptera: Carabidae) in Romania 63 Levente SZÉKELY - New and rare Macrolepidoptera from Romanian Dobrogea (SE-Romania) 65 Ioan TĂUȘAN, Alexandru PINTILIOAIE - First record of the dacetine ant Strumigenys argiola (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) from Romania 67 Alexandru IFTIME, Oana IFTIME - New herpetological records from Cozia National Park 68 George‑Ioan MĂRGINEAN, Elena GHERMAN - An assessment of Emys orbicularis online trade in Romania - a threat factor for conservation 69 Marian TUDOR, Alexandra TELEA, Dragoș BĂLĂȘOIU - The Blotched Snake (Elaphe sauromates) in Dobrudja: How rare this species really is? 70 Anastasia LUNGU‑BUCȘAN, Anatol SAVIN, Victoria NISTREANU - Importance of Common Pheasant (Phasianus colchicus) for the game fauna of Moldova 71 Szilárd BÜCS, István CSŐSZ, Csaba JÉRE, Csabax BARTHA, Farkas SZODORAY‑PARÁDI, Alexandra TELEA, Dragoș BĂLĂȘOIU, Teodora SINCULEȚ - New data regarding the status and distribution of Horseshoe bats (genus Rhinolophus) in karst areas of Southern Romania 72 Edoardo VERNIER, Bronisław W. WOŁOSZYN - Researches on Bat presence in some valleys and natural protected areas of Dolomites Mountains, Unesco World Heritage, region Veneto (N.E. Italy) 73 Bronisław W. WOŁOSZYN, Roksana SOCHA - A preliminary study on distribution and biodiversity of small mammals from the foothills of the Sierra de Guara Range (Huesca province, Spain) 74 Phylogenetics, Evolution and Systematics Adam KONEČNÝ - How to learn about population history – an inference from genetic data 75 Ioana Cristina CONSTANTINESCU, Gabriel CHIȘAMERA, D. Khlur B. MUKHIM, Chrysanthemum MASSAR, Costică ADAM - Description of new species with a key to identifcation of the genus Timalinyssus Mironov, 2001 (Acarina, Psoroptidia) 76 – 6 – Summary Lucian FUSU, Mădălina I. VICIRIUC, Maria‑Magdalena DASCĂLU, Ovidiu A. POPOVICI, Mircea D. MITROIU - Phylogenetic analysis and species discrimination within Spalangia Latreille (Hymenoptera, Chalcidoidea, Pteromalidae), using molecular data and morphological characters 77 Elena Iulia IORGU, Ionuț Ștefan IORGU, Mihaela Isabela VADANA, Larisa‑Bianca DUMITRESCU, Alexandra Florina LEVĂRDĂ‑POPA, Ana-Maria KRAPAL, Oana Paula POPA, Anton KRIŠTÍN, Luis Ovidiu POPA - Assesing haplotype diversity in the mountainous species Pholidoptera transsylvanica 78 Palaeontology Radu‑Mihai ILIE, Dragoş PANAITESCU, Ştefan VASILE, Mirela DRAGOȘ - The presence of Elephas antiquus (Proboscidea: Elephantidae) in the Pleistocene of the Dacian Basin (Southern Romania) – preliminary results 79 Ştefan VASILE, Valentin DUMITRAŞCU - “What’s your beef?” – taxonomical assessement of the large bovid hunted in the upper Palaeolithic from Buda (Bacău County, Romania) 80 Ecology Dana HŘÍVOVÁ, Marie ZHAI - Harpacticoida (Copepoda, Crustacea) of the Western Carpathian spring fens: infuence of climate, nutrients and pH on species ecology 81 Joanna KOCOT‑ZALEWSKA, Grzegorz KŁYS, Bronisław W. 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