Annales Musei historico-naturalis hungarici

Author(s): Nesemann, H.
Title: Identification key to the Hungarian leeches of the subfamily Trochetinae Pawlowski, 1954, with notes on systematics of the subfamily Erpobdellinae Blanchard, 1894 (Hirudinea)
Year: 1993
Publication date: 1993-12-31
Volume: 85
Pages: 19-35.

Abstract: Until now, 25 valid species and a number of subspecies of erpobdellid leeches are known from Europe. They belong to three subfamilies, of which the Trochetinae has the highest number of taxa. The subfamilies are newly defined: 1. Erpobdellinae sensu Blanchard with the genera Erpobdella and Nephelopsis, 2. Trochatinae senus Pawlowski, 1954, with the genera Dina and Archaeobdella, 3. Mooreobdellinae subfam. N., according to Sawyer (1986), with the genera Mooreobdella and Fadejewobdella is described. An identification key to the six Trochetinae species of the Carpathian Basin is given and their morphological and anatomical features discussed. A new species, Trocheta riparia sp. n. was recently found in Pinka, Strém and Rechnitzbach (Rába river basin, Hungary, Austria), which were former tributaries of the Slavonian Lake of the Pliocene.
Subject: zoology

Journal: Annales historico-naturales Musei nationalis hungarici
Journal abbreviation: Annls hist.-nat. Mus. nat. hung.
ISSN: 0521-4726
Publisher: Magyar Természettudományi Múzeum, Budapest
Editor(s): Matskási, I. & Merkl, O.