Hydradephaga (Coleoptera: Amphizoidae, Dytiscidae, Gyrinidae, Haliplidae) of the Alaska-Yukon region: new records, distributions and faunal compositions
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Abstract The Amphizoidae, Dytiscidae, Gyrinidae and Haliplidae (Coleoptera: Adephaga of Alaska (USA) and the Yukon Territory (Canada) were surveyed during the years 1994, 2016, 2017 and 2019. By adding specimens collected through the Arctic Shorebird Demographic Network survey and those from the collection of the University of Alaska, Fairbanks, a total of 5305 individuals are newly reported, which substantially expand our distributional knowledge of these families from the Alaska-Yukon region. Seventeen species are newly reported from Alaska; three from the Yukon Territory. Following this study 160 species are now recorded for the Alaska-Yukon region (136 in Alaska and 138 in Yukon territory). The Nearctic component of the fauna is made up of 103 species (64.4%), the Holarctic component of 57 species (35.6%). Most species (103, 64.4%) have a transcontinental distribution and are characteristic of the boreal and/or arctic ecozones whilst 57 species (35.6%), are recognised as species with western affinities. Eleven species are considered Beringian.
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Aquatic Insects is an international journal publishing original research on the systematics, biology, and ecology of aquatic and semi-aquatic insects.
The subject of the research is aquatic and semi-aquatic insects, comprising taxa of four primary orders, the Ephemeroptera, Odonata, Plecoptera, and Trichoptera but also aquatic and semi-aquatic families of Hemiptera, Coleoptera, and Diptera, as well as specific representatives of Hymenoptera , Lepidoptera, Mecoptera, Megaloptera , and Neuroptera that occur in lotic and lentic habitats during part of their life cycle. Studies on other aquatic Hexapoda (i.e., Collembola) will be only accepted if space permits. Papers on other aquatic Arthropoda (e.g., Crustacea) will not be considered, except for those closely related to aquatic and semi-aquatic insects (e.g., water mites as insect parasites).
The topic of the research may include a wide range of biological fields. Taxonomic revisions and descriptions of individual species will be accepted especially if additional information is included on habitat preferences, species co-existing, behavior, phenology, collecting methods, etc., that are of general interest to an international readership. Descriptions based on single specimens are discouraged.
Detailed studies on morphology, physiology, behavior, and phenology of aquatic insects in all stadia of their life cycle are welcome as well as the papers with molecular and phylogenetic analyses, especially if they discuss evolutionary processes of the biological, ecological, and faunistic formation of the group.