{"title":"The first record of the peacock fly Callopistromyia annulipes Macquart, 1855 (Diptera: Ulidiidae) in Croatia revealed by social media","authors":"Niko Kasalo, M. Topić, Anita Tarandek","doi":"10.20302/nc.2021.30.36","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"In Europe Callopistromyia annulipes Macquart, 1855 is an alien species. It was introduced from North America in 2007 and has spread to more than ten European countries. The spread of the species has been observed since 2007 and the trend isstill continuing, the species having recently been found in Croatia. Using social networks such as Facebook and iNaturalist, we can spot the spread of alien species to new areas, learn more about their ecology and speculate on the direction of potential expansion. Citizen science is an excellent tool for obtaining new knowledge, but as of today, its potentials are greatly underutilized.","PeriodicalId":36013,"journal":{"name":"Natura Croatica","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2021-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"2","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Natura Croatica","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.20302/nc.2021.30.36","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q3","JCRName":"Agricultural and Biological Sciences","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
In Europe Callopistromyia annulipes Macquart, 1855 is an alien species. It was introduced from North America in 2007 and has spread to more than ten European countries. The spread of the species has been observed since 2007 and the trend isstill continuing, the species having recently been found in Croatia. Using social networks such as Facebook and iNaturalist, we can spot the spread of alien species to new areas, learn more about their ecology and speculate on the direction of potential expansion. Citizen science is an excellent tool for obtaining new knowledge, but as of today, its potentials are greatly underutilized.
期刊介绍:
Natura Croatica is a scientific journal of the Croatian Natural History Museum in Zagreb. It publishes papers that bring original insight into zoology, botany, geology, palaeontology, mineralogy and petrography, with emphasis on systematics, morphology, ecology. The journal welcomes papers related to research carried out in the Croatian Natural History Museum, as well as in other Natural History museums, departments and collections.