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Ing. Robert STEJSKAL PhD

Address:
(work)
Administration of the Podyji National Park
Na Vyhlidce 5
669 02 Znojmo
Czech Republic
Address:
(private)
Smetanova 3
669 02 Znojmo
Czech Republic
Phone:+420 777 985 382
eMail:rstejskal@centrum.cz
stejskal@nppodyji.cz
Birthday:29th Oct 1978

Current activities

Since 2005, I have been working for the Podyji National Park Authority (Czech Republic) as an expert for forest ecology and habitat management. In 2006 I finished my PhD thesis titled “Weevils (Coleoptera, Curculionoidea) of selected forest habitats of the Podyjí National Park”. Currently I keep on studying fauna of weevils of the Podyjí National Park and its adjacent areas. This area seems to be the richest one within the Czech Republic (recorded more than 600 species!). I am planning to publish current knowledge on weevils of the Podyji National Park.

Subject of research

  • Coleoptera, Curculionoidea of Central Europe, faunistics, bionomics, host plants, ecology (relation to habitat), nature conservation
  • Coleoptera – all groups – recording data on endangered species of the Podyji National Park
  • Diptera, Asilidae of the Czech Republic

List of publications

1. Stejskal, R. (2002): Faunistic Records from the Czech Republic - 154. - Klapalekiana, 38: 259–260. Praha. - records of Minyops carinatus, Otiorhynchus crataegi, Psallidium maxillosum and Sitona gressorius.
2. Stejskal, R. (2004a): Historická sbírka nosatcovitých brouků (Coleoptera: Curculionoidea) v jihomoravském muzeu ve Znojmě (Historical collection of weevils (Coleoptera: Curculionoidea) in the South-Moravian Museum in Znojmo). - Thayensia, 6: 31–45. Znojmo.
3. Stejskal, R. (2004b): Contribution to the knowledge of beetles (Coleoptera) of dry grasslands - weevils (Curculionoidea) of Ječmeniště near Znojmo (Southern Moravia). - Entomofauna carpathica, 16: 71–82. Bratislava.

Abstract: Weevil beetles (Coleoptera: Curculionoidea) of dry/steppic grasslands, a floristically and faunistically diverse habitat that has progressively vanished throughout central Europe in the face of modern agriculture, were studied in Ječmeniště near Znojmo (the Czech Republic, southern Moravia) in 1998-2004. Since the first natural scientists’ excursions in the1990s the area has become a famous habitat of rare and threatened communities of plants and animals bound on Sub-Pannonic and Pannonic loess steppic grasslands, being Priority Habitats according to the Habitats Directive (92/43/EEC). Currently, Ječmeniště is one of the Czech areas to be included in the list of Natura 2000 network. A total of 168 weevil species were recorded, of which 103 species associated with dry/steppic grasslands. Although the study area is strongly influenced by man, remaining habitats still host valuable fauna of phytophagous beetles. The most important findings include Dieckmanniellus helveticus, whose unclear occurrence in Moravia has been confirmed here, Baris atramentaria, Ischnopterapion aeneomicans, Mesotrichapion amethystinum, Mogulones dimidiatus, Phrydiuchus augusti, Tychius kulzeri, Urodon orientalis and U. schusteri, all reaching their (north)western limits here; and other species of faunistic interest such as Datonychus derennei, Eutrichapion melancholicum, Lixus subtilis, Otiorhynchus crataegi, Psallidium maxillosum, Pseudorchestes smreczynskii, Thamiocolus virgatus, Trachyphloeus inermis, T. parallelus and Tychius tridentinus.
4. Stejskal, R. (2004c): Weevils of Ficuzza Nature Reserve (Palermo Province, Sicily): communities in oak forest stands and the first checklist (Coleoptera Curculionoidea). - Naturalista siciliano, S. IV, 18(3-4): 1177–1193. Palermo.
5. Stejskal, R. (2005a): New weevil species (Coleoptera, Curculionidae) for the Czech Republic. (Nové druhy nosatců (Coleoptera, Curculionidae) pro Českou republiku). - Weevil News, 26: 5 pp.. Mönchengladbach. – records of Acallocrates colonnellii, Aphytobius sphaerion, Cotaster uncipes, Mogulones amplipennis, Otiorhynchus labilis, Rhinusa hispidum and Simo variegatus.
6. Stejskal, R. (2005b): Interesting records of some weevil species of the subfamily Lixinae (Coleoptera: Curculionidae) in southern Moravia with notes on their bionomics (Zajímavé nálezy několika druhů nosatců podčeledi Lixinae (Coleoptera: Curculionidae) na jižní Moravě s poznámkami k jejich bionomii). - Klapalekiana, 41: 63–69. Praha.

Abstract: Interesting records of 5 rare or little-known species of Lixinae (Coleoptera: Curculionidae) from Moravia are presented and data about their host plants are given. Cyphocleonus achates (Fåhraeus, 1842) was found in the Podyjí National Park associated with Centaurea stoebe L. in the localities that are currently the most northerly located habitats of this species within the whole area of natural distribution. Pseudocleonus grammicus (Panzer, 1789) was found associated with Inula conyzae (Griesselich) Meikle, reported here as its host plant for the first time. Lixus punctiventris Boheman, 1836 and L. angustus Herbst, 1795 are recorded from plant Picris hieracioides L. (as host plant known only for the latter), their larval development is briefly described. Also some records of Pseudocleonus cinereus (Schrank, 1781), at present a rather rare species in the Czech Republic, are given.
7. Stejskal, R. (2005c): Faunistic Records from the Czech Republic - 180. - Klapalekiana, 41: 69–70. Praha. – records of Anthonomus rubripes, Ceutorhynchus scrobicollis, Cionus ganglbaueri and Pissodes validirostris.
8. Stejskal, R. (2006): Nosatcovití brouci (Coleoptera, Curculionoidea) ve vybraných lesních geobiocenózách Národního parku Podyjí (Weevils (Coleoptera, Curculionoidea) of selected forest habitats of the Podyjí National Park). – Dissertation thesis, 122 pp. and 40 pp. attachements, Mendel University of Agriculture and Forestry. Brno.

Abstract: Weevils of the Znojmo district are represented by 587 species (i.e. 64% of the species number known from the Czech Republic; it is the richest region of the country) as found on the basis of literature data and author’s investigation in 1996–2005. The species diversity is concentrated to the area of the Podyjí National Park hosting 495 species. There were recorded 206 species in the studied forest habitats. The richest habitats were those of oak forest – especially light oak forests with rich structure, tree and herb layer. This work showed the possibility to describe forest habitats on the basis of their species inventory (it is easier to describe wider phytosociological units) and showed how these beetles can be used in bioindication (evaluation of environment quality, climate change, changes in landscape, biogeographical and botanical bioindication). Proposed habitat management practices should guarantee future existence of all possible kinds of weevil communities hosting several tens of rare, threatened or in other way important weevil species associated with forest habitats of the study area.
9. Stejskal, R., Krátký, J. (2007): Notes to host plants of the weevils Liparus dirus (Herbst, 1795) and Aphytobius sphaerion (Boheman, 1845) (Coleoptera, Curculionidae). - Weevil News, 36, 5 pp. Mönchengladbach.
10. Benedikt, S., Stejskal, R., Špryňar, P. (2007): Faunistic Records from the Czech Republic - 236. - Klapalekiana, 43: 209–211. Praha. – records of Larinus sturnus and Sphenophorus abbreviatus.
11. Stejskal, R. (2009a): Finding circumstances of the weevil Trachystyphlus alpinus alpinus (Penecke, 1894) in Slovenia (Coleoptera: Curculionidae). - Weevil News: http://www.curci.de/Inhalt, No. 45: 4 pp., CURCULIO-Institute: Mönchengladbach
12. Křivan, V., Stejskal, R. (2009b): Zajímavé nálezy brouků (Coleoptera) z Českomoravské vrchoviny – 1 (Interesting Records of Beetles (Coleoptera) from the Czech-Moravian Higland – 1). Acta Rerum Naturalium, 6, 29-34. Records of Carabidae: Amara lucida, Carabus problematicus, Drypta dentata, Massoreus wetterhalli, Syntomus obscuroguttatus; Hydrophilidae: Crenitis punctatostriata; Buprestidae: Aphanisticus pusilus, Trachys troglodytes, Trachys scrobiculata, Trachys fragariae, Coraebus elatus; Meloidae: Meloe scabriusculus; Cerambycidae: Gramoptera abdominalis; Chrysomelidae: Chrysolina limbata limbata; Nemonychidae: Cimberis attelaboides; Anthribidae: Anthribus fasciatus; Apionidae: Rhopalapion longirostre; Curculionidae: Cionus olens, Graptus weberi, Hypera arator, Lepyrus armatus, Lixus punctiventris, Neophytobius quadrinodosus, Notaris maerkeli, Otiorhynchus pinastri and Sitona gressorius.