2385 Bushmakiu Et Al Review of Macroinvertebrate Hydrobionts.Indd
ACTA ZOOLOGICA BULGARICA Acta Zool. Bulg., 73 (1), March 2021: 31-50 Zoogeography and Faunistics Published online 30 October 2020 Research Article http://www.acta-zoologica-bulgarica.eu/002385 Review of Aquatic Arthropods (Phylum Arthropoda) in the Republic of Moldova Oxana Munjiu, Galina Buşmachiu*, Tatiana Şuleşco, Igor Șuberneţkii & Ion Toderaş Institute of Zoology, 1 Academiei Street, MD-2028 Chișinău, Republic of Moldova Abstract: The first review of aquatic arthropods from the Republic of Moldova is presented. It is based on literature data and faunistic materials collected in 1946–2018 by researchers of the Institute of Zoology, Chișinău. The checklist includes data about 461 species belonging to six classes: Arachnida (one species), Bran- chiopoda (two species), Malacostraca (53 species), Maxillopoda (one species), Collembola (six species) and Insecta (398 species). The distribution of the species across the four freshwater basins in the country (Dniester River Basin, Prut River Basin, Danube River Basin and Black Sea Basin) is given. In addition, data on the species occurring in artificial reservoirs are also presented. Psychomyia pusilla (Fabricius, 1781) (order Trichoptera) is a new record for the country. The present study contains previously unpub- lished data about further 20 species of Insecta (19 species) and Malacostraca (one species) from the labo- ratory archive of the Institute of Zoology, Chișinău. Key words: Freshwater arthropods, list of species, Dniester River Basin, Prut River Basin, Eastern Europe public of Moldova were published at the beginning of Introduction the 20th century (Brauner 1910, Miller & Zubovs- The Republic of Moldova has a rather small territo- ky 1917, Bening 1928, Schellenberg 1937).
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