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{"title":"Anthophilous insects' seasonal variation in Corsican thermo-Mediterranean shrubland maquis.","authors":"Pierre-Yves Maestracci, Laurent Plume, Marc Gibernau","doi":"10.3897/BDJ.13.e144560","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3897/BDJ.13.e144560","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>In any ecosystems, seasonality is a key factor conditioning the temporal variation on an annual scale in combination with differences in the organism phenology. This seasonality is marked in the Mediterranean Region with four contrasting seasons: a hot, dry summer, a mild winter and sometimes a very rainy spring and autumn. With a large surface area and its large range of habitats from seaside to alpine biotopes, Corsica Island represents a biodiversity hotspot with a high rate of endemism. Amongst diverse groups, insects, notably the main orders of pollinators composed of Coleoptera, Hymenoptera, Diptera and Lepidoptera, represent a large proportion of the insular richness.</p><p><strong>New information: </strong>Our sampling effort focused on the insects from these four orders visiting flowers in a characteristic thermo-Mediterranean vegetation. Our database is an insight into the Corsican anthophilous insects biodiversity from three sites separated by a few kilometres in the region of Ajaccio (SW Corsica) during nine consecutive months in 2023, completing our database for the year 2022 published in this journal. In total, 3714 specimens were sampled in 2023 and 311 species or morpho-species identified from 154 genera and 50 families. Coleoptera were by far the most abundant order representing about 54% of the sampled specimens. The most diverse order was the Hymenoptera representing 44% of the species. Our continuous survey has shown that these orders vary between seasons both in terms of abundance and diversity, resulting in changing communities.</p>","PeriodicalId":55994,"journal":{"name":"Biodiversity Data Journal","volume":"13 ","pages":"e144560"},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2025-03-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11909591/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143652076","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Updated list of Tersilochinae (Hymenoptera, Ichneumonidae) of Italy.","authors":"Filippo Di Giovanni, Davide Dal Pos, Andrey I I Khalaim","doi":"10.3897/BDJ.12.e139683","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3897/BDJ.12.e139683","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>The subfamily Tersilochinae is a small taxon that accounts for about 60 species in Italy. However, the current checklist of the group is incomplete and listed records are often imprecise.</p><p><strong>New information: </strong>An updated checklist of the Italian Tersilochinae is provided. Three species are new additions to the Italian fauna, while three others are first records for southern Italy. Additionally, <i>Aneuclispusilla</i> Masi, 1933 is reported as a junior synonym of <i>Aneuclismelanaria</i> (Holmgren, 1860) <b>syn. nov</b>. This update raises the total number of Tersilochinae species in Italy to 77.</p>","PeriodicalId":55994,"journal":{"name":"Biodiversity Data Journal","volume":"13 ","pages":"e139683"},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2025-03-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11909593/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143652080","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The first checklist of alien vascular plants of Kyrgyzstan, with new records and critical evaluation of earlier data. Contribution 3.","authors":"Alexander Sennikov, Georgy Lazkov, Dmitry A German","doi":"10.3897/BDJ.13.e145624","DOIUrl":"10.3897/BDJ.13.e145624","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>We continue the series of detailed treatments of alien vascular plants of Kyrgyzstan. The complete background for every species occurrence (herbarium specimens, documented observations, published literature) is uncovered and critically evaluated in a wide context of plant invasions in Central Asia with a reference to Eastern Europe and Northern Asia, based on events in the political and economic history. Complete point distribution maps are provided for each species in Central Asia, in general and Kyrgyzstan, in particular.</p><p><strong>New information: </strong>All records of <i>Hesperismatronalis</i> in Central Asia (including Kyrgyzstan) belong to <i>H.pycnotricha</i>; the latter species is newly reported as a locally naturalised alien in Kazakhstan. The previous record of <i>Sisymbriumirio</i> from Kyrgyzstan is rejected as based on a misidentified specimen of <i>S.loeselii</i>, but the species is newly recorded here as a recent casual alien. <i>Hirschfeldiaincana</i> is presumably native in south-western Turkmenistan; its second record in Central Asia was caused by the import of contaminated wheat grain in the times of the Soviet grain crisis and its recent expansion may be linked to the increasing import of forage grain. The introduction of <i>Crambeorientalis</i> was connected with its cultivation for fodder and as an ornamental plant and its further broad dispersal was aided by winds. <i>Rorippaaustriaca</i> is native in the steppes of north-western Kazakhstan, but alien in the mountains of Central Asia. The occurrences of three alien species originated directly from cultivation (<i>Hesperispycnotricha</i> as an ornamental, <i>Armoraciarusticana</i> as an edible plant, <i>Crambeorientalis</i> as an ornamental and fodder plant), three species (<i>Hirschfeldiaincana</i>, <i>Mutardaarvensis</i>, <i>Sisymbriumirio</i>) were imported as grain contaminants, whereas two others (<i>Rorippaaustriaca</i>, <i>R.sylvestris</i>) have arrived with contaminated soil on ornamental plants or arboreous saplings. The arrival period is inferred as the Neolithic period (<i>Mutardaarvensis</i>), the Imperial times (<i>Armoraciarusticana</i>, <i>Hesperispycnotricha</i>), the post-war Soviet times (<i>Crambeorientalis</i>, <i>Rorippaaustriaca</i>, <i>R.sylvestris</i>) and the independence times (<i>Hirschfeldiaincana</i>, <i>Sisymbriumirio</i>). All the treated species, but two, increase their frequency in Kyrgyzstan; <i>Mutardaarvensis</i> has already reached its complete distribution, being an ubiquitous weed, whereas <i>Armoraciarusticana</i> experiences a projected decline because its common cultivation has ceased. No species is invasive in natural habitats. A new combination, Mutardaarvensisvar.orientalis (L.) Sennikov, is proposed for a variant with pubescent pods.</p>","PeriodicalId":55994,"journal":{"name":"Biodiversity Data Journal","volume":"13 ","pages":"e145624"},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2025-03-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11897906/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143617909","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Mobilising marine biodiversity data: a new malacological dataset of Italian records (Mollusca).","authors":"Arianna Giannini, Massimo Appolloni, Luigi Romani, Marco Oliverio","doi":"10.3897/BDJ.12.e136243","DOIUrl":"10.3897/BDJ.12.e136243","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>The location and palaeoceanographic history of the Mediterranean Sea make it a biodiversity hotspot, prompting extensive studies in this region. However, despite the marine biodiversity of this area being apparently widely studied, a large amount of distributional data for Mediterranean taxa is still unpublished or scattered in various sources and formats, causing severe limitations to their potential reuse. This emerges as a particularly thorny issue for highly biodiverse and neglected taxa, such as invertebrates. The mobilisation of these frozen data through a process of standardisation and georeferencing could potentially support biodiversity research and conservation. The aim of this work is to provide a standardised pipeline to integrate these dispersed data, focusing on the Italian waters of the Mediterranean Sea and using molluscs as target taxa. Data were gathered from two main sources: published literature and Natural History Collections. The harmonisation process involved three key steps: 1) terminology and structure standardisation; 2) taxonomy updating and 3) georeferencing. Our efforts yielded over 44000 standardised records of mollusc species from Italian seawaters. These records encompassed primary biodiversity data from newly-digitised specimens owned by 11 different institutions and private collectors, as well as secondary biodiversity data extracted from 311 published studies.</p><p><strong>New information: </strong>This work is the first attempt to mobilise the available distributional information of Italian marine mollusc species from Natural History Collections and literature, converting the retrieved data into point-occurrence records through standard protocols, thus creating a FAIR (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable and Reusable) dataset collating these records from Italian marine sectors.</p>","PeriodicalId":55994,"journal":{"name":"Biodiversity Data Journal","volume":"13 ","pages":"e136243"},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2025-02-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11889433/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143588339","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Atlantic oceanic islands and archipelagos: Physical structures, plant diversity, and affinities of the bryofloras.","authors":"Denise Pinheiro da Costa, Cecília Sérgio","doi":"10.3897/BDJ.13.e141577","DOIUrl":"10.3897/BDJ.13.e141577","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>We investigated the species richness, endemism, and similarities of the bryofloras on ten islands and archipelagos in the Atlantic Ocean. We address the following questions: 1) How many bryophyte taxa are there on each island and archipelago? 2) Do mosses and liverworts share similar patterns of diversity? 3) What are their taxonomic distribution patterns? 4) How many endemic taxa are found on the islands? 5) Is there a high degree of similarity amost these bryofloras? We encountered 1,498 taxa, 408 genera, and 204 families, with the seven families representing 35% of all species. Over 14% of the bryophytes are African elements, 8% have global distributions, ca. 3% are Macaronesia elements, 13% are endemic, and 62% with other distributions. We present a checklist of 1,498 bryophyte taxa, of which 201 are endemic (13%). Bryophyte richness and diversity differ significantly amongst the ten islands and archipelagos, and their low similarities illustrate their high degrees of heterogeneity.</p>","PeriodicalId":55994,"journal":{"name":"Biodiversity Data Journal","volume":"13 ","pages":"e141577"},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2025-02-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11889432/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143588291","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The stoneflies (Plecoptera) of Arkansas: a checklist compiled from museum specimen data.","authors":"Lily Veronica Hart, Ralph Edward DeWalt, Phillip N Hogan, Scott A Grubbs, David K Burton","doi":"10.3897/BDJ.13.e145637","DOIUrl":"10.3897/BDJ.13.e145637","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>Stoneflies are well known as indicators of water quality. Their presence in running waters, glacial meltwaters, and large oligotrophic lakes is rapidly declining the world over. In the USA, states partner with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to protect habitat and wildlife through the development of State Wildlife Action Plans (SWAPs). Plants and wildlife species often enter these SWAPs as Species in Greatest Conservation Need (SGCN). Arkansas currently lists nine stonefly species as SGCNs and has funded research on them through SWAP grants. However, these nine species were initially chosen based on the small amount of data from a few papers. A more comprehensive assessment using museum specimen data is necessary to assess completeness of sampling, the relative rarity and endemicity of species, temporal changes in distribution, and the conservation status of species in Arkansas. Herein, we publish a data paper and preliminary dataset comprised of specimen data primarily from the Illinois Natural History Survey Insect Collection, Canadian National Collection, Western Kentucky University, P. N. Hogan Personal Collection, and from existing literature sources. These data are made publicly available by the Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF) to allow for comprehensive assessment of the Arkansas Plecoptera assemblage. More recent occurrence data are needed to accurately assess imperilment of Arkansas stonefly species; these data will be provided through targeted collecting, collaboration with others in Arkansas, and through investigation of additional museum collections.</p><p><strong>New information: </strong>This dataset includes > 3,500 specimen records (ethanol vials or pins with or without catalog numbers) and accounts for 84 stonefly species in Arkansas, six more species than indicated in published records. Perlidae contributed 29 of these species followed distantly by Perlodidae (15), Capniidae (14), Taeniopterygidae (9), Leuctridae (7), Chloroperlidae (5), Nemouridae (4), and Pteronarcyidae (1). A species accumulation curve predicts that sampling of species is nearly complete with a Chao1 estimate of 88.0 ± 3.7 species. Our data demonstrate that 25 species are known from ≤ five records, suggesting that many more than the nine recognized stonefly SGCNs in Arkansas may meet standards for inclusion.</p>","PeriodicalId":55994,"journal":{"name":"Biodiversity Data Journal","volume":"13 ","pages":"e145637"},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2025-02-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11976157/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143813131","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"New distribution records of wild bees (Hymenoptera, Apoidea) in South Tyrol (Italy): expanding the wild bee database.","authors":"Sebastiano Zanini, Matteo Dainese, Timo Kopf, Lisa Obwegs, Matteo Anderle, Georg Leitinger, Ulrike Tappeiner","doi":"10.3897/BDJ.13.e138625","DOIUrl":"10.3897/BDJ.13.e138625","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>Throughout South Tyrol, in northern Italy, there is a data deficiency relating to wild bee species pool. Here, we present significant findings from the collection of 3,313 wild bees gathered over two separate studies conducted in consecutive years. Our research focused on the impact of landscape heterogeneity, temperature and land-use change on wild bee communities and their pollination services in an agricultural and mountainous landscape. This article provides a detailed account of the 150 identified wild bee species collected using coloured pan traps. We report habitat type, occurrence data, threat status, sociality, nesting strategy and diet breadth. In Italian regions where information on wild bee distribution is lacking or outdated, sharing data is crucial for developing conservation policies.</p><p><strong>New information: </strong>The compiled species list strengthens regional and national wild bee database by providing new distribution data for extinction-threatened species, such as <i>Dufoureadentiventris</i> (Nylander, 1848), <i>Dufoureainermis</i> (Nylander, 1848), <i>Lasioglossumbrevicorne</i> (Schenck, 1870), <i>Lasioglossumlaevigatum</i> (Kirby, 1802), <i>Lasioglossummonstrificum</i> (Morawitz, 1891), <i>Nomadamutica</i> Morawitz, 1872 and <i>Nomadavillosa</i> Thomson, 1870. Additionally, we present recent findings of species that are valuable for understanding range expansions, recording species previously unreported in South Tyrol and updating historical data for the region.</p>","PeriodicalId":55994,"journal":{"name":"Biodiversity Data Journal","volume":"13 ","pages":"e138625"},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2025-02-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11880818/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143569127","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Taxonomic diversity and abundance of enchytraeids (Annelida, Clitellata, Enchytraeida) in the Northern Palaearctic. 2. European Russia.","authors":"Ruslan A Saifutdinov, Maxim I Degtyarev, Daniil I Korobushkin, Svetlana M Artemieva, Philipp S Byzov, Margarita A Danilova, Alla A Ditts, Ksenia A Ermokhina, Petr G Garibian, Anastasia Yu Gorbunova, Polina A Guseva, Evgeniy I Karlik, Tatiana Yu Kondratieva, Dmitri A Kupriyanov, Iurii M Lebedev, Natalia V Lebedeva, Pavel A Nazarov, Alisa A Neplyukhina, Elizaveta A Noskova, Roman R Obolensky, Alexey A Panchenkov, Anna V Popova, Nina A Pronina, Joel Rüthi, Gabriela Schaepman-Strub, Svetlana V Shakhab, Andrey S Zaitsev, Vitalii A Zemlianskii, Elena Yu Zvychaynaya, Konstantin B Gongalsky","doi":"10.3897/BDJ.13.e144992","DOIUrl":"10.3897/BDJ.13.e144992","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>Enchytraeids, commonly known as potworms, are small oligochaetes found worldwide in various terrestrial, freshwater and marine ecosystems. Despite their crucial role in ecosystem functioning, the diversity and abundance of Enchytraeidae are seldom studied due to the labour-intensive process of species identification. This study aims to address this gap and expand knowledge on the distribution and abundance of enchytraeids within the Northern Palaearctic Region. The provided dataset represents the latest and most comprehensive field sampling of enchytraeid communities within the European part of Russia within the Northern Palaearctic. It consists exclusively of an original set of soil samples systematically collected across the region from 2019 to 2023, without any previously published data included.</p><p><strong>New information: </strong>The dataset includes occurrences from 204 georeferenced sites, encompassing 73 species from 17 genera, totalling 61,254 records, with 1,419 records having the \"present'' occurrence status. This comprehensive, species-specific dataset (Darwin Core Archive - DwC-A) provides insights into the distribution and abundance of terrestrial enchytraeids across a wide geographic area, covering the eastern sector of the East European Plain and the North Caucasus Region within the Northern Palaearctic. Compiled from field sampling campaigns, this dataset is essential for exploring and understanding local and regional enchytraeid diversity over time and space. It also serves as a valuable resource for monitoring and conserving soil biodiversity in the studied region.</p>","PeriodicalId":55994,"journal":{"name":"Biodiversity Data Journal","volume":"13 ","pages":"e144992"},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2025-02-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11876978/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143558898","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Arthropod communities of insular (São Miguel Island, Azores) and mainland (Portugal) coastal grasslands.","authors":"Hugo Renato M G Calado, António O Soares, Ruben Heleno, Paulo A V Borges","doi":"10.3897/BDJ.13.e144915","DOIUrl":"10.3897/BDJ.13.e144915","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>The data presented here is part of a doctoral project aimed at characterising and comparing arthropod diversity across biotic communities in coastal ecosystems. The present work provides an inventory of the arthropods recorded in two coastal grasslands ecosystems: the Portugal mainland and the Azores. Sampling was conducted on São Miguel Island (Azores Archipelago) as well as in the Sesimbra and Sines regions (Setúbal District, mainland Portugal). Thirty-one plots were set and visited four times, in spring and summer of 2022.</p><p><strong>New information: </strong>The specimens collected were sorted and catalogued into a total of 534 arthropod species and morphospecies. In total, 67 species were common to both ecosystems. A total of 13,515 specimens were counted in the two coastal grasslands. We registered three new records for the Azores (in São Miguel Island), all being exotic: <i>Aritranisdirector</i> (Thumberg, 1822) (Hymenoptera, Ichneumonidae), <i>Draeculacephalabradleyi</i>, Van Duzee, 1915 (Hemiptera, Cicadellidae) and <i>Isodontia</i> sp. Patton, 1880 (Hymenoptera, Sphecidae). This publication demonstrates the importance of coastal grasslands as reservoirs for some potentially invasive arthropod species.</p>","PeriodicalId":55994,"journal":{"name":"Biodiversity Data Journal","volume":"13 ","pages":"e144915"},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2025-02-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11876977/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143558896","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Population genetic data (COI, ddRAD) of <i>Sialislutaria</i> (Insecta, Megaloptera) from the Emscher catchment (Germany).","authors":"Martina Weiss, Florian Leese","doi":"10.3897/BDJ.13.e141997","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3897/BDJ.13.e141997","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>In urban river systems, fragmentation of habitats and in-stream dispersal barriers play a major role in shaping the population genetic structure of freshwater macroinvertebrate species. In small, fragmented populations, effects of genetic drift and inbreeding are enhanced, which can lead to increased population differentiation and genetic diversity loss. One formerly strongly degraded and fragmented stream system in a highly urbanised area is the Emscher catchment in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. Major restoration efforts have led to an improvement of water and habitat quality over the past 20 years also in the formerly polluted tributaries, for example, the Boye catchment. However, the analysis of the population structure of two different amphipod and isopod species has revealed that some populations are still strongly isolated, indicating persisting gene flow barriers. In contrast, the effects are expected to be less pronounced in merolimnic species, which have an adult winged life stage, such as the alderfly <i>Sialislutaria</i> (Linnaeus, 1758) . However, this species was much less abundant in the Boye catchment and not found in adjacent catchments (only 9 of 41 sampling sites), reducing the power of possible analyses.</p><p><strong>New information: </strong>As no population genetic studies of <i>S.lutaria</i> have to our knowledge been published so far and genetic resources are generally scarce for this species, we generated and present here population genetic data for 70 <i>S.lutaria</i> specimens for the mitochondrial cytochrome c oxidase I (COI) gene and, more importantly, high resolution genomic single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) data for 71 specimens, generated with double-digest restriction site-associated sequencing (ddRAD-seq). These data can be valuable for further studies, analysing the population genetic structure, dispersal pathways and potential gene flow barriers for <i>S.lutaria</i> on a larger geographic scale. Additional to presenting the data, we also give first insights in the population structure on a small geographic scale (area of approx. 15 km²). While the population differentiation was generally low, as expected on this small scale, we still found that gene flow was not equally strong between all populations, but that one population played a central role as a source and sink population, which cannot only be explained by the distance between populations.</p>","PeriodicalId":55994,"journal":{"name":"Biodiversity Data Journal","volume":"13 ","pages":"e141997"},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2025-02-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11871517/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143544335","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}