Alboglossiphonia striata (Apáthy, 1888), Apathy, 1888

Schenková, Jana, Sychra, Jan, Košel, Vladimír, Kubová, Nela & Horecký, Jakub, 2009, Freshwater leeches (Annelida: Clitellata: Hirudinida) of the Czech Republic (Central Europe): check-list, new records, and remarks on species distributions, Zootaxa 2227, pp. 32-52 : 36

Alboglossiphonia striata (Apáthy, 1888)

Records: Bažinka Pool, Lanžhot [7367], 48°38'05''N / 16°55'55''E, lgt. JSc, det. JSc (2006); pool, Ranšpurk [7367], 48°40'27''N / 16°56'23''E, ( Košel 1999a) ( Figure 2 ).

Habitats: The species was recorded in natural lowland pools with aquatic vegetation. Its ecology is still not well known.

Status: Alboglossiphonia striata is the rarest species in the genus known to occur in the Czech Republic, to date having been recorded only in southernmost Moravia. However, it could have been confused with or misidentified as A. heteroclita in previous studies.

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FIGURE 2. The distribution of selected leech species (Annelida, Clitellata, Hirudinida: the families Glossiphoniidae and Piscicolidae) in the Czech Republic recorded during the years 1998 through 2008, based upon published and unpublished records, and specimens collected during this study.