{"id":3214,"date":"2024-04-24T20:40:05","date_gmt":"2024-04-24T18:40:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/habiprot.org.rs\/?p=3214"},"modified":"2024-05-13T20:47:34","modified_gmt":"2024-05-13T18:47:34","slug":"stenice-pescarskih-travnih-stanista-panonskog-regiona-2023-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/habiprot.org.rs\/en\/stenice-pescarskih-travnih-stanista-panonskog-regiona-2023-2024\/","title":{"rendered":"True bugs of the Pannonian sandy grasslands (2023-2024)"},"content":{"rendered":"

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After years of work on true bugs of the Pannonian saline habitats with a focus on saline grasslands, our team became specialized in grassland communities and has participated in several other research projects on grassland true bugs in Serbia and Hungary. Our great interest in the Pannonian grasslands and their conservation led us to realize that there is another specific fauna in the region which needs our attention and new insights into their ecology and conservation.<\/p>

Check out our projects on saline habitats - 2015<\/a>, 2017<\/a>, 2019-2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>

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In the past, research on sandy grasslands of Serbia and their true bugs were covered better than saline ones, but the latest comprehensive studies in Serbian sands were conducted in the 1980s and early 1990s. Additionally, for Subotica-Horgo\u0161 sands, only scattered records are available without any systematic work in this area. This was the starting point of our project titled Setting Up the Base for True Bug (Heteroptera) Conservation and Insect Monitoring in Sandy Grasslands of the Pannonian Region<\/strong> which was supported by the grant of the Rufford Foundation<\/a>. More on the project can be found on the link<\/a> to the web page of the Rufford Foundation.<\/p>

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Sands in Serbia<\/span> <\/strong><\/h5>

The two biggest sandy areas in Serbia, Subotica-Horgo\u0161 sands (Subotica Sands Landscape of Outstanding Features<\/a>) and Deliblato sands (Deliblato Sands Special Nature Reserve<\/a>) are protected by national legislation and they are the best preserved Pannonian sandy landscapes in our country. The rest of the Serbian sands are represented by much smaller fragments and they are distributed along the Danube in the Ba\u010dka region of Northern Serbia and from Ram to Negotin towns in Eastern Serbia.<\/p>

The map of the distribution of all Serbian sands can be found on the Wikipedia<\/a> page.<\/p>

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The importance of conservation of sandy grasslands and habitat threats<\/span> <\/strong><\/span><\/h6>

To find out more about sandy grasslands in the Pannonian region, their characteristics and threats to their survival \u2013 take a look at the brochure<\/a> we have prepared.<\/p>

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The history of studying true bugs in Serbian sands<\/span> <\/strong><\/h5>

The earliest records of true bugs from sandy areas in Serbia were published in 1897. in the monograph Fauna Regni Hungariae<\/em> written by a Hungarian entomologist G\u00e9za Horv\u00e1th. This publication provides records on true bugs from two sandy areas in Serbia, Delibalato and Subotica-Horgo\u0161 sands with their surroundings. Horv\u00e1th\u2019s lists of true bugs from sands contained 64 species for Delibalato sands and only 16 for Subotica-Horgo\u0161 sands.<\/p>

The biggest contribution to studies on the true bug fauna of sands was provided by Ljiljana Proti\u0107, a heteropterist and the curator of the Natural History Museum in Belgrade. She published around 10 scientific papers covering true bug records from Deliblato and Ram-Golubac sands. According to Proti\u0107, the final species list consisted of 172 species of true bugs for Ram-Golubac sands and 250 species for Deliblato sands.<\/p>

In the past 15 years, HabiProt\u2019s members and collaborators worked on collecting insect data from all around Serbia, but also in sandy habitats. At this point, our Alciphron database<\/a> contains records on 8 species of true bugs from Ram-Golubac sands, 41 species from Deliblato sands and 69 species from Subotica-Horgo\u0161 sands. Additionally, the Alciphron database is the most reliable source of true bug faunal data from Subotica-Horgo\u0161 sands.<\/p>

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The project goals: <\/strong><\/span><\/h6>