Andrijana Andric
Dr Andrijana Andrić is employed at the Center for Biosystems of the BioSense Institute, as Senior Research Associate in the field of Biological Sciences. She completed her studies (PhD in Biological Sciences) in 2015 at the Department of Biology and Ecology, Faculty of Sciences, University of Novi Sad. She is primarily engaged in research on biology and ecology of insect pollinators and their host plants, with a focus on phytophagous hoverflies (Diptera: Syrphidae) and their understudied developmental stages.
Center:
CBS
Themes:
1. Pollination
2. Larval ecology
Projects:
1. Evaluation of ecological network for the purpose of more efficient nature protection in AP Vojvodina
2. Conservation strategy for protected and strictly protected hoverfly (Insecta: Diptera: Syrphidae) species in Serbia – Case study
3. Soil Health Guards – Cultivating Soil Connectivity: Empowering Farmers and Youth Community as Citizen Scientists to Monitor Soil Health and Biodiversity
4. SONATA
Publications:
- Andrić, A., Aracil, A., Mishustin, R., Popov, G., Rojo, S., Radenković, S., Vujić, A., & Pérez-Bañón, C. (2025). New data on the morphology of the immature stages of Merodon mishustini as a contribution to the knowledge of the genus Merodon Meigen (Diptera: Syrphidae). Arthropod Structure & Development, 89, 1–9. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.asd.2025.101487
- Aracil, A., Andrić, A., Rojo, S., Shparyk, V., Mishustin, R., Popov, G., Radenković, S., Vujić, A., & Pérez-Bañón, C. (2024). Insights from the preimaginal morphology of the constans species-group, to reveal novel morphological patterns of the Merodon albifrons-evolutionary lineage (Diptera, Syrphidae). Zoomorphology, 143(1), 89–97. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00435-023-00635-2
- Andrić, A., Miličić, M., Bojanić, M., Obradović, V., Šašić Zorić, L., Petrović, M., & Gadjanski, I. (2023). Survey on public acceptance of insects as novel food in a non-EU country: a case study of Serbia. Journal of Insects as Food and Feed, 10(1), 91–106. https://doi.org/10.1163/23524588-20230024
- Vujić, A., Radenković, S., Barkalov, A., Kočiš-Tubić, N., Likov, L., Tot, T., Popov, G., Prokhorov, A., Gilasian, E., Anjum, S., Đan, M., Kakar, B., & Andrić, A. (2023). Taxonomic revision of the Merodon tarsatus species group (Diptera, Syrphidae). Arthropod Systematics and Phylogeny, 81, 201–256. https://doi.org/10.3897/asp.81.e93570
- Vujić, A., Tot, T., Andrić, A., Ačanski, J., Šašić Zorić, L., Pérez-Bañón, C., Aracil, A., Veselić, S., Arok, M., Mengual, X., van, E. A., Rojo, S., & Radenković, S. (2021). Review of the Merodon natans group with description of a new species, a key to the adults of known species of the natans lineage and first descriptions of some preimaginal stages. Arthropod Systematics and Phylogeny, 79, 343–378. https://doi.org/10.3897/asp.79.e65861
- vljević, M., Veselić, S., Losapio, G., de Groot, M., Vujić, A., Radenković, S. (2026) Larval diet breadth and wingspan mediate landscape–richness relationship in butterfly communities. Functional ecologists, https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2435.70270.