Table 1.
Agriotes larvae collected in Austrian agricultural land (‘E’, ‘N’ and ‘W’ indicate eastern, northern, and western [i.e. alpine] part, of the country) and identified by molecular means as described in Staudacher et al. (2011) (numbers in parenthesis represent morphologically identified Agriotes ustulatus larvae)
| Region | No. of sites | ∑ Agriotes larvae | Agriotes obscurus (L.) | Agriotes sputator (L.) | Agriotes brevis Candèze | Agriotes ustulatus (Schaller) | A. lineatus (L.)/A. proximus Schwarz | Agriotes litigiosus (Rossi) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pannonian Plain (E) | 5 | 54 | 3 | 35 | 16 (14) | |||
| Marchfeld (E) | 9 | 150 | 1 | 5 | 131 | 13 (1) | ||
| Wein-/Mostviertel (E-N) | 27 | 203 | 37 | 60 | 51 | 55 (39) | ||
| Wald-/Mühlviertel (N) | 14 | 126 | 34 | 78 | 11 | 3 | ||
| Inn-/Hausruckviertel (N) | 9 | 93 | 52 | 22 | 11 | 2 | 5 | 1 |
| Tyrol (W, Alps) | 21 | 616 | 465 | 151 | ||||
| Σ | 85 | 1242 | 589 | 319 | 239 | 86 (54) | 8 | 1 |