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Unexpected visitors: flightless beetles in window traps

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Ancient woodlands are highly important for biodiversity. Flightless beetles and window traps may first appear to be incompatible as a study group and a study method. Little is known about the actual capability of window traps in monitoring of entire forest arthropod communities. We try to determine the possibility of using window traps (designed as tree traps) as an additional method to trap flightless beetles of the genera Carabus (Carabidae), Acalles and Trachodes (Curculionidae), as vulnerable representatives of wildlife forest fauna with high conservation value. From the environmental point of view, the occurrence of the studied flightless beetles was significantly more influenced by altitude than tree species as the studied environmental variables. Several beetles also showed positive significant species to species relationships during their observed phenological activity. Our results showed that the studied flightless beetles may reappear in secondary forests if these reach their optimal structure. On the other hand, they may be sensitive to large scale disturbances and not only to those caused by commercial forestry. The results also showed that window traps designed as tree traps could be used to successfully trap assemblages of forest fauna including flightless species.

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  1. Actually as Ruteria hypocrita (Boheman, 1837).

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Acknowledgments

We would like to express our gratitude to S. Benedikt for beetle determinations, M. Boukal and A. Hamet for discussion. V. Hula and J. Buse had many good ideas that helped improve the earlier draft of this manuscript, K. Rébl helped with flightless carabids, and D. Romportl with the map. This study was supported by Grant of the Ministry of Agriculture of the Czech Republic No. QH91097 and Contract No. DOD 0010/08/064, and conducted under Government Permit No. 1473/09.

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  1. Faculty of Forestry and Wood Sciences, Czech University of Life Sciences, Kamýcká 1176, 165 21, Prague 6, Czech Republic

    Jakub Horák

  2. Silva Tarouca Research Institute for Landscape and Ornamental Gardening, Květnové náměstí 391, 252 43, Průhonice, Czech Republic

    Jakub Horák

  3. Institute of Entomology, Czech Academy of Sciences, Branišovská 31, 370 05, České Budějovice, Czech Republic

    Štěpán Vodka

  4. Lesák, o.s., Arnošta z Pardubic 2597, 530 02, Pardubice, Czech Republic

    Jan Pavlíček & Petr Boža

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Horák, J., Vodka, Š., Pavlíček, J. et al. Unexpected visitors: flightless beetles in window traps. J Insect Conserv 17, 441–449 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10841-012-9526-8

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