ISSN 1211-8788 Acta Musei Moraviae, Scientiae biologicae (Brno) 99(1): 1–14, 2014 Checklist of Hirudinea of the Czech Republic VLADIMÍR KOŠEL Department of Zoology, Comenius University, Mlynská dolina B1, SK-84215, Bratislava, Slovakia; e-mail: [email protected] KOŠEL V. 2014: Checklist of Hirudinea of the Czech Republic. Acta Musei Moraviae, Scientiae biologicae (Brno) 99(1): 1–14. – The leech fauna (Hirudinea) of the Czech Lands has been studied for almost 160 years. The first checklist (1874) containes nine valid species; the most recent (2009) has 24 taxa. Leech records are included in faunistic, hydrobiological, parasitological, and morphological studies, as well as those reporting applied research. Keywords. Hirudinea, Czech Republic, history, checklist, bibliography Introduction The first scientific and complete review of the Czech leeches, containing 11 taxa (nine of them still valid), was published by VEJDOVSKÝ in 1874. There are also location records for most of the species. These records were probably VEJDOVSKÝ’s own data or that of his collaborators. The appearance of articles on leeches before the year 1874 is sporadic (ŠAFAØIK 1854), and the existence of papers between the years 1855 and 1873 is questionable. In addition to the faunistics of leeches, VEJDOVSKÝ (1883, 1884) was interested in their morphology and anatomy. In this type of research, he was followed by BAYER (1898, 1899a,b), MENCL (1907, 1909), KHOMOVÁ (1918), SCHUSTER (1909, 1910) and FREUND (1912, 1918). The last of this type of work was that of VAVROUŠKOVÁ (1952). The largest proportion of earlier faunistic data was acquired in the course of hydrobiological and parasitological surveys undertaken largely by FRIÈ & VÁVRA (1893, 1895, 1898, 1901, 1903) and KAFKA (1891). Treatises on Piscicola geometra appear in the literature of applied ichthyology (FRIÈ 1894, 1908). Leeches are addressed in relatively good detail in Otto’s encyclopedia, in which nine valid species are presented (BAYER 1902). During what has become known among specialists as the “post-Friè period” (the 30- 40 years after 1910), interest in leeches waned and new records were published only sporadically (ZAVØEL 1923, HRABÌ 1936, NOWAK et al. 1937, NOWAK 1940, JÍROVEC 1940, DYK 1941a,b,c). For nearly half a century, from the contributions of VEJDOVSKÝ and BAYER until the year 1950, the number of species did not change. After 1950, the number of faunistic records began to increase as scientific interest became engaged with ichthyological parasitology (DYK 1952, 1953, 1954a,b,c, 1955, 1958a, 1961a, DYK & LUCKÝ 1956a,b, 1957, LUCKÝ 1953, 1959, RODÁK et al. 1965). A general growth in attention to the hydrobiology of benthic macroinvertebrates also helped (e.g. WINKLER 1952 1963, LELLÁK 1953a,b). 1 V. K OŠEL The number of new records of leeches in the Czech Lamds increased steadily: DYK (1952) published a finding of “Cystobranchus respirans” (= Piscicola respirans) and LUCKÝ & DYK (1964) made a record of Cystobranchus fasciatus. A second checklist of leeches, in the form of a catalogue relating to what was then Czechoslovakia, was published by KOUBKOVÁ and VOJTKOVÁ (1973). Twelve species were mentioned for the Czech territory. New species recorded were Erpobdella testacea and “Erpobdella lineata” (=Dina lineata). On the other hand, “Cystobranchus fasciatus” was absent. In subsequent years, KOŠEL (1979, 1980, 1981) increased the number of species by three: Glossiphonia concolor, “E. monostriata” (=Erpobdella vilnensis) and “Trocheta bykowskii”(=T. cylindrical). Occasional samplings disclosed more species: Glossiphonia slovaca (KOŠEL 1995), Glossiphonia nebulosa, Caspiobdella fadejevi and Erpobdella nigricollis (KOŠEL 1999). The most recent new species in the Czech Republic is Dina punctata (SCHENKOVÁ et al. 2009). Today, 24 species of leech are known from the Czech Republic (SCHENKOVÁ et al. 2009, KUBOVÁ & SCHENKOVÁ (2012) (including Piscicola haranti, but Batracobdella paludosa omitted). The first domestic determination literature on leeches was published by TEREBA (1928), in which 14 species were included from the broader central European context. In brief keys contributed by Hrabì (1954) and ZELINKA (1956), 11 species were included and 13 in that of KOUBKOVÁ & VOJTKOVÁ (1973). Further determination keys, with more species, were published by SLÁDEÈEK & KOŠEL (1984) and KOŠEL (1988, 1989). It is useful to note that several leech species were not individually distinguished in the past, and several similar taxa could be included under one species. Such misidentifications have found a certain currency, mainly in the genera Glossiphonia and Erpobdella/Herpobdella: • Glossiphonia concolor in standing water and G. nebulosa of running water could have been included under Glossiphonia complanata. • In montane and submontane running waters, E. monostriata/E. vilnensis could have been included under Erpobdella octoculata and E. atomaria (syn. E. octoculata). • In montane and submontane running water and in dam/fishpond/reservoir retaining wall outlets, Erpobdella vilnensis (syn. E. monostriata) could have been included under Erpobdella lineata. • In running waters, E. nigricollis could have been included under Erpobdella testacea. The bibliography contains a wide range of papers and books, scientific, professional and applied. Inclusion in the literature sources required the following: scientific or Czech name of a leech taxon and a scientific treatise on a taxon in question. Popular literature on leeches was therefore omitted. It should be noted that the occurrence of two further species, Batracobdella paludosa and Glossiphonia verrucata, is possible on the territory of the Czech Republic since both have been recorded in western Slovakia, in standing waters that connect with the River Morava. 2 Acta Musei Moraviae, Sci. biol. (Brno), 99(1), 2014 Checklist of Hirudinea of the Czech Republic Checklist of Hirudinea HIRUDINEA KOØÍNKOVÁ (1971), ŠTÌRBA & HOLZER (1981) Family Glossiphoniidae Alboglossiphonia heteroclita (Linnaeus, 1761) KUBOVÁ & SCHENKOVÁ (2012), SCHENKOVÁ et al. (2009) Other names Glossiphonia heteroclita: ADAMEK & SUKOP (1992), DVOØÁK (1970), KOŠEL (1999), KOŠEL & BERAN (2006), KUBÍÈEK (1977, 1982, 1984), LELLÁK (1953a, 1953b), LINHART et al. (1998), PETR (1961), SUKOP (1990), ŠTÌRBA (1959), VEJDOVSKÝ (1874), ZÁHRADKOVÁ et al. (1995), ZAJÍÈEK (1971) Glossiphonia Carenae:VEJDOVSKÝ (1874) Glossosiphonia heteroclita: BAYER (1898, 1899a,b, 1902), NOWAK (1940), NOWAK et al. (1937), ŠULC (1924) Alboglossiphonia hyalina(O. F. Mueller, 1774) KUBOVÁ & SCHENKOVÁ (2012), SCHENKOVÁ et al. (2009) Other names Glossiphonia heteroclita “hyalina”:KOŠEL (1999), KOŠEL & BERAN (2006) Glossiphonia heteroclita var. hyaline: ŠVEC (1960) Alboglossiphonia striata (Apáthy, 1888) KUBOVÁ & SCHENKOVÁ (2012), SCHENKOVÁ et al. (2009) Other names Glossiphonia heteroclita “striata”:KOŠEL (1999) Batracobdella paludosa (Carena, 1824) KOŠEL (1999), SUKOP (1999) Remarks. Because of misidentification (SUKOP 1999), the species must be struck from the list of the Czech leeches. In literature also as Batracobdelloides moogi Nesemann et Csányi, 1995. Glossiphonia HETEŠA & SUKOP (1984), LELLÁK (1957), PUNÈOCHÁØ (1972) Glossiphonia complanata (Linnaeus, 1758) ADAMEK & SUKOP (1992), ÏURIŠ (1988), HOLZER (1980), KOØÍNKOVÁ (1967), KOŠEL (1999), KOŠEL & BERAN (2006), KUBÍÈEK (1977, 1982, 1984), KUBÍÈEK et al. (1971, 1999), KUBOVÁ & SCHENKOVÁ (2012), LINHART et Acta Musei Moraviae, Sci. biol. (Brno), 99(1), 2014 3 V. K OŠEL al. (1998), LOSOS & MARVAN (1957), NOWAK (1940), PEÒAZ et al. (1968), PETR (1961), POØÍZKOVÁ (2001), ØÍHA (1952), SEDLÁK (1969), SCHENKOVÁ et al. (2009), SUKOP (1970, 1990), SUKOP & HALOUZKA (1984), ŠTÌRBA (1959, 1978), ŠTÌRBA & PØICHYSTAL (1978), TENORA (1955), TRNKOVÁ (1980, 1984), VOJTEK (1989), VOJTEK et al. (1967), VOJTKOVÁ (1970, 1971), WINKLER (1963), WOHLGEMUTH (1999), ZÁHRADKOVÁ et al. (1995), ZAJÍÈEK (1971) Other names Clepsine sexoculata: KAFKA (1891, 1892), FRIÈ & VÁVRA (1892, 1893, 1895), FRITSCH & VÁVRA (1892), MENCL (1907) Glossiphonia sexoculata: VEJDOVSKÝ (1874), FRIÈ & VÁVRA (1901), FRIÈ & VÁVRA (1903) Glossosiphonia complanata: NOWAK et al. (1937), ŠULC (1924) Glossosiphonia sexoculata: KHOMOVÁ (1918), BAYER (1898, 1899a,b, 1902) Glossiphonia concolor (Apáthy, 1888) KOŠEL (1981, 1999), KOŠEL & BERAN (2006), KUBOVÁ & SCHENKOVÁ (2012), SCHENKOVÁ et al. (2009), WOHLGEMUTH (1983) Glossiphonia nebulosa (Kalbe, 1964) KOŠEL (1981) as G. concolor (KOŠEL 1999), KUBOVÁ & SCHENKOVÁ (2012), SCHENKOVÁ et al. 2009 Glossiphonia slovaca (Košel, 1973) KOŠEL (1999), SCHENKOVÁ & KOŠEL (2005), SCHENKOVÁ et al. (2009) Helobdella HETEŠA & SUKOP (1984), LAUPY (1970), PUNÈOCHÁØ (1972) Helobdella stagnalis (Linnaeus, 1758) ADAMEK & SUKOP (1992), BORODIÈ (1962), BORODIÈOVA (1958), DVOØÁK (1970), ÏURIŠ (1988), HRUŠKA (1973), KOCIAN & ŠPAÈEK (1935), KOŠEL (1999), KOŠEL & BERAN (2006), KUBÍÈEK (1977, 1982, 1984), KUBÍÈEK et al. (1999), KUBOVÁ & SCHENKOVÁ (2012), LELLÁK (1953a,b, 1957, 1958, 1966), LOHNISKÝ (1960), LOSOS & MARVAN (1957), MARKOŠOVÁ (1974), NOWAK (1940), PETR (1961), POØÍZKOVÁ (2001), ØÍHA (1952), SCHENKOVÁ et al. (2009), SUKOP (1990), SUKOP & HALOUZKA (1984), ŠTÌRBA & HOLZER (1977), ŠULC (1924), ŠVEC (1960), TENORA (1955), WILLERT (1923, 1924), WINKLER (1952, 1963), WOHLGEMUTH (1995b, 1998), ZÁHRADKOVÁ et al. (1995) Other names Clepsine bioculata: VEJDOVSKÝ (1874), FRIÈ & VÁVRA (1892, 1893, 1895, 1901, 1903), FRITSCH & VÁVRA (1892), NOSEK (1916) Glossosiphonia bioculata: NOSEK (1916) Helobdella bioculata: