Hydroptila angustata Mosely 1939

Hydroptila angustata Mosely, 1939 Materials Type status: Other material. Occurrence: recordedBy: Hakan Bozdogan, Halil Ibrahimi; individualCount: 1; sex: male; lifeStage: adult; occurrenceID: 7E1DEA49-AB3F-5364-920D-C376557D328E; Location: continent: Europe; waterBody: Zeta River; country: Montenegro; municipality: Danilovgrad; verbatimLocality: 11.8 km from Danilovgrad town; verbatimCoordinates: 42.630642 ° N, 19.03266 ° E; decimalLatitude: 42.630642; decimalLongitude: 19.03266; Identification: identifiedBy: Halil Ibrahimi; Event: samplingProtocol: UV light trap; samplingEffort: 1 trap-night; eventDate: 22-07 - 2024; year: 2024; month: 07; day: 22 Type status: Other material. Occurrence: recordedBy: Hakan Bozdogan, Halil Ibrahimi; individualCount: 1; sex: male; lifeStage: adult; occurrenceID: 8D62D079-CF9E-52C6-9787-C31D75A4F973; Location: continent: Europe; waterBody: Zeta River; country: Montenegro; municipality: Danilovgrad; verbatimLocality: 11.8 km from Danilovgrad town; verbatimCoordinates: 42.630642 ° N, 19.03266 ° E; decimalLatitude: 42.630642; decimalLongitude: 19.03266; Identification: identifiedBy: Halil Ibrahimi; Event: samplingProtocol: entomological net; samplingEffort: 2 observer-hours; eventDate: 22-07 - 2024; year: 2024; month: 07; day: 22 Diagnosis The male genitalia (Fig. 2) of the observed specimens correspond well with the drawings by Malicky (2004). Right-angled truncated segment X in lateral view along with the inferior appendages with pointed apices and transversal band make it possible to easily distinguish this species and these specimens from closely-related Hydroptila simulans Mosely, 1920. Distribution Austria, Bulgaria, China, Cyprus, Czechia, Egypt, Greece, Hungary, Iran, Italy, Kazakhstan, Lebanon, Romania, Russia, Spain, Syria, Turkiye, Ukraine and Uzbekistan (Thomson 2023). Ecology The adult stage of the species is reported across all seasons (Graf et al. 2008). We found it during spring. Conservation The species has a status of a Critically Endangered species in Czechia (Komzák and Kroča 2019).