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#1
Established earlier / Re: Keys
Last post by Martin Spies - January 13, 2025, 12:04:51 PM
2025

Namayandeh, A., Ghaderi, E. (2025) A review of Paracricotopus (Brundin, 1947), with the description of two new species and redescription of the adult males of Paracricotopus niger (Kieffer, 1913) and Paracricotopus uliginosus (Brundin, 1947) sensu Sæther (1980) (Chironomidae: Diptera). Zootaxa 5569(1): 138-158 + online suppl. material. [publd 13.i.2025]
#2
Recently published / Re: Orthocladiinae - new taxa
Last post by Martin Spies - January 13, 2025, 12:04:17 PM
2025

Namayandeh, A., Ghaderi, E. (2025) A review of Paracricotopus (Brundin, 1947), with the description of two new species and redescription of the adult males of Paracricotopus niger (Kieffer, 1913) and Paracricotopus uliginosus (Brundin, 1947) sensu Sæther (1980) (Chironomidae: Diptera). Zootaxa 5569(1): 138-158 + online suppl. material. [publd 13.i.2025]
#3
Biomonitoring / Re: Publications
Last post by Martin Spies - January 11, 2025, 03:57:47 PM
2024

Boóz, B., Móra, A., Ficsór, M., Paril, P., Acosta, R., Bartalovics, B., Datry, T., Fernández-Calero, J. M., Forcellini, M., Miliša, M., Mykrä, H., Pernecker, B., Polášková, V., Polovic, L., Snåre, H., Csabai, Z. (2024) Neglected dipterans in stream studies. J. Limnology 83(1, paper 2191): 14 pp. + online suppl. material. [publd 2.viii.2024]

Ergovic, V., Cerba, D., Vuckovic, N., Mihaljevic, Z. (2024) Chironomid Pupal Exuviae Technique in ecological research of man-made water bodies. Water [Basle] 16(20, paper 2917): 13 pp. + online suppl. material. [publd 14.x.2024]

Gabrielyan, B., Asatryan, V., Kobelyan, H., Khosrovyan, A. (2024) The sediment of a river having "good ecological status" turned out to be toxic to midge Chironomus riparius larvae: Implication for environmental monitoring? Ecotoxicol. envir. Safety 283(paper 116855): 11 pp. + online suppl. material. [online version of record publd 10.viii.2024]

Kolbenschlag, S., Pietz, S., Röder, N., Schwenk, K., Bundschuh, M. (2024) Phenotypic adaptation of Chironomus riparius to chronic Bti exposure: effects on emergence time and nutrient content. Aquatic Toxicol. 273(Article 107013): 11 pp. + online suppl. material. [online version of record publd 11.vii.2024]

Milosavljević, A., Predić, B., Milošević, Dj. (2024) Imagelytics suite: deep learning-powered image classification for bioassessment in desktop and web environments. Logic Journal of the IGPL(paper jzae103): 13 pp. [publd 3.ix.2024]

Stoll, V. S., Röder, N., Gerstle, V., Manfrin, A., Schwenk, K. (2024) Effects of Bti on the diversity and community composition of three Chironomidae subfamilies across different micro-habitats. Environmental Pollution 366(paper 125490): 11 pp. + online suppl. material. [online version of record publd 12.xii.2024]

Tchakonté, S., Koji, E., Nyamsi, N. L. T., Nana, P.-A., Tuekam, R. K., Tamsa, A. A., Onana, M. F., Ajeagah, G. A. (2024) First use of Chironomid Pupal Exuvial Technique in freshwater biomonitoring in Cameroon: Ecological aspect and morphological description of Chironomidae (Insecta: Diptera). Limnologica (paper 126212): 12 pp. + online suppl. material. [online version of record publd 13.x.2024]
#4
Faunistic publications / Re: 2024
Last post by Martin Spies - January 11, 2025, 03:54:59 PM
Boóz, B., Kovács, Z., Bartalovics, B., Boda, P., Miliša, M., Pernecker, B., Paril, P., Rewicz, T., Simon, A. B., Csabai, Z., Móra, A. (2024) Chironomids (Diptera) from central European stream networks: new findings and taxonomic issues. Biodiv. Data J. 12(paper e136241): 17 pp. + online suppl. material. [publd 27.xii.2024]
#5
Palaeoecology / Re: Recent publications
Last post by Martin Spies - January 11, 2025, 03:53:17 PM
2024

Dočkalová, K., Stuchlík, E., Hamerlík, L., Bitušík, P., Turek, J., Svitok, M., Novikmec, M., Lackner, R., Dvorak, M., Kopáček, J., Tátosová, J., Camarero, Ll., Füreder, L., Vondrák, D. (2024) Cold mountain stream chironomids (Diptera) of the genus Diamesa indicate both historical and recent climate change. Envir. Ent. (paper nvae052): 15 pp. + online suppl. material. [publd 15.vi.2024]

Eensalu, M., Nelson, D. B., Buczynska, A., Rach, O., Luoto, T. P., Poska, A., Klein, E. S., Stansell, N. D. (2024) Holocene hydroclimate variability of the Baltic region inferred from stable isotopes, d-excess and multi-proxy data at lake Nuudsaku, Estonia (NE Europe). Quaternary Sci. Reviews 334(paper 108736): 18 pp. + online suppl. material. [online version of record publd 5.vi.2024]

Lamb, A. L., Barst, B. D., Elder, C. D., Engels, S., Francis, C., Hardenbroek, M. van, Heiri, O., Lombino, A., Robson, H. J., Anthony, K. W., Wooller, M. J. (2024) Stable isotope analyses of lacustrine chitinous invertebrate remains: Analytical advances, challenges and potential. Quaternary Sci. Reviews 346(paper 109067): 19 pp. [online version of record publd 16.xi.2024]
#6
Established earlier / Re: New publications on variou...
Last post by Martin Spies - January 09, 2025, 11:00:04 AM
2025

Kodama, A., Saito, H., Kawai K. (2025) First description of male from parthenogenesis in a chironomid species Paratanytarsus grimmii (Schneider, 1885) (Diptera: Chironomidae). Zootaxa 5566(3): 594-600. [publd 9.i.2025]
#7
Recently published / Re: Chironominae - new taxa
Last post by Martin Spies - January 03, 2025, 02:46:50 PM
2025

Moubayed, J., Langton, P. H. (2025) On the genus Einfeldia Kieffer from France. Description of E. aberlencii sp. n. from French Guiana with emendation of four recently described species from continental France (Diptera, Chironomidae). Ephemera 26: 1-9. [publd 2.i.2025]
[NOTE: The four previously proposed species mentioned in the title were described - in chronological sequence - as Polypedilum (Uresipedilum) tissoti Moubayed-Breil & Langton, 2020; P. (U.) bernardae Moubayed-Breil, 2020 and P. (U.) claudei Moubayed-Breil, 2020; and P. (U.) alixae Moubayed & Langton, 2022. In the new paper, all of these names are transferred to Einfeldia, but the authors chose to interpret the latter in a very wide sense, i.e. apparently including genus-level taxa such as Chironomus (Lobochironomus) that have been recognized for decades by most other authors. Judging from Moubayed et al.'s relevant publications, and from supposed type specimens of theirs, at least several of the 5 species in question here, notably including the one from French Guiana, appear to belong to Chironomus rather than to Einfeldia in a recent, restricted sense. It does remain possible that wider and deeper analyses of molecular data from this complex of taxa might bring substantial changes to the latter system and corresponding nomenclature. It looks highly unlikely, however, that such results will revalidate Einfeldia sensu antiquo as used in the present paper.]
#8
Recently published / Re: Chironominae - new taxa
Last post by Martin Spies - January 03, 2025, 02:16:28 PM
2024

Andersen, T., Sanz-laParra, A. M., Giłka, W. (2024) Two new species of Riethia Kieffer, 1917 from Chile and Ecuador (Chironomidae: Chironominae, Pseudochironomini). Zootaxa 5448(4): 499-507. [publd 14.v.2024]

Bellodi, C. F., Pinho, L. C., Messias, M. C., Fusari, L. M. (2024) New species and notes of Oukuriella Epler, 1986 (Diptera: Chironomidae) from Brazil. Biologia: 11 pp. [publd 5.xi.2024]

Dantas, G. P. S., Hamada, N. (2024) New findings on Nilothauma Kieffer (Diptera: Chironomidae) from Brazil and Peru. Zootaxa 5410(1): 112-122. [publd 12.ii.2024]

Giłka, W., Dantas, G. P. S., Andersen, T., Armitage, B. J. (2024) Tanytarsus deimos group (Chironomidae, Diptera) for two distinctive species from the Neotropics. Zootaxa 5428(4): 589-596. [publd 25.iii.2024]

Dong, X., Tang, H. (2024) Kribiocosmus Kieffer (Diptera, Chironomidae) newly recorded in China, with description of a new species. Zootaxa 5555(2): 277-282. [publd 18.xii.2024]

Liu, W.-B., Wang, Ch.-Y., Tang, Y.-N., Pei, W.-X., Yan, Ch.-C. (2024) DNA barcodes and morphology reveal new species within the Cryptochironomus Kieffer from Oriental China (Diptera: Chironomidae). Zootaxa 5493(2): 165-174. [publd 9.viii.2024]

Liu, W.-B., Wang, Ch.-Y., Tang, Y.-N., Wang, Y., Pei, W.-X., Yan, Ch.-C. (2024a) Six new species of Cryptochironomus Kieffer (Diptera, Chironomidae) from the Nearctic region. ZooKeys 1200: 275-302. [publd 9.v.2024]
Liu, W.-B., Wang, Ch.-Y., Tang, Y.-N., Wang, Y., Pei, W.-X., Yan, Ch.-C. (2024b) Corrigendum: Liu W-B, Wang C-Y, Tang Y-N, Wang Y, Pei W-X, Yan C-C (2024) Six new species of Cryptochironomus Kieffer (Diptera, Chironomidae) from the Nearctic region. ZooKeys 1200: 275–302. doi: 10.3897/zookeys.1200.119225. ZooKeys 1207: 369-371. [publd 24.vii.2024]

Moubayed, J. (2024) On the genus Stenochironomus Kieffer from French Guiana. I. New records with description of S. hallei sp. n. from the primary rainforest (Diptera, Chironomidae, Chironominae). Ephemera 25: 83-90. [publd 27.xii.2024]

Mukherjee, B., Ray, N., Mukherjee, A., Naskar, A., Banerjee, D. (2024) First report of acifer group of the subgenus Tripodura Townes (Diptera: Chironomidae: Polypedilum) from India, with a new species and updated world checklist. Zootaxa 5512(4): 531-552. [publd 23.ix.2024]

Song, Ch., Chen, G., Wang, L., Lei, T., Qi, X. (2024) DNA barcoding supports "color-pattern"-based species of Stictochironomus from China (Diptera: Chironomidae). Insects [Basle] 15(3, paper 179): 18 pp. + online suppl. material. [publd 6.iii.2024].
#9
Various topics / Re: CHIRONOMUS Journal of Chir...
Last post by Martin Spies - December 31, 2024, 03:45:52 PM
Volume 38 (2024) of the CHIRONOMUS Journal of Chironomidae Research has been completed and published in its final form.

Please see, e.g.,
https://www.ntnu.no/ojs/index.php/chironomus/index
#10
Established earlier / Re: New publications on variou...
Last post by Martin Spies - December 27, 2024, 11:32:07 AM
2024

Andersen, T., Sanz-laParra, A. M., Giłka, W. (2024) The identity of Psilochironomus Sublette, 1966 (Chironomidae, Chironominae, Pseudochironomini). Zootaxa 5496(1): 111-118. [publd 16.viii.2024]

Dvorak, M., Dittmann, I. L., Pedrini-Martha, V., Hamerlík, L., Bitušík, P., Stuchlik, E., Vondrák, D., Füreder, L., Lackner, R. (2024) Molecular and morphological characterisation of larvae of the genus Diamesa Meigen, 1835 (Diptera: Chironomidae) in Alpine streams (Ötztal Alps, Austria). PLoS One 19(2, paper e0298367): 15 pp. + online suppl. material. [publd 15.ii.2024]

Ge, X., Wang, C., Pei, W., Tang, Y., Liu, W., Yan, C. (2024) New descriptions of the larval and pupal stages of Orthocladius nitidoscutellatus and Psectrocladius nevalis from Xizang, China (Diptera, Chironomidae). Biodivers. Data J. 12(paper e121952): 12 pp. + online suppl. material. [publd 4.iv.2024]

Lencioni, V., Prat, N., Paoli, F., Acosta, R., Rodriguez-Prieto, A., Allegrucci, G. (2024) Revisiting European and Asian Diamesa species (Diptera: Chironomidae: Diamesinae): morphological and molecular insights. Zool. J. Linnean Soc. 202(4, paper , zlae136): 17 pp. + online suppl. material. [publd 11.xii.2024]

Li, Z., Tang, H. (2024a) Description of immature stages of Endochironomus pekanus (Kieffer) (Diptera, Chironomidae). Zootaxa 5446(4): 581-587. [publd 2.v.2024]

Li, Z., Tang, H. (2024b) Redescription of marine Thalassosmittia nemalione (Tokunaga, 1936) (Diptera, Chironomidae, Orthocladiinae) from the east coast of China. CHIRONOMUS J. Chironomidae Res. 38: 21-24. [publd online 17.viii.2024]

Makarchenko, E. A., Palatov, D. M. (2024) Redescription of the Caucasian endemic Diamesa tskhomelidzei Kownacki et Kownacka (Diptera: Chironomidae: Diamesinae). Zootaxa 5419(3): 446-450. [publd 7.iii.2024]

Martin, J. (2024) Redescription of the type specimen of Chironomus oppositus Skuse, 1856. CHIRONOMUS J. Chironomidae Res. 38: 3 pp. [publd online 23.vii.2024]

Martin, J., Epler, J. H. (2024) Clarification of the status of Chironomus javanus Kieffer, 1924 and C. vitellinus Freeman, 1961. CHIRONOMUS J. Chironomidae Res. 38: 14-20. [publd online 23.vii.2024]

Siri, A., Cranston, P. S., Marin Viegas, V., Donato, M. (2024) The phylogeny of the tribe Podonomini (Chironomidae: Podonominae) is clarified by new inclusion of Rheochlus Brundin in molecular analysis. Insect Syst. Evol. 55(4), 418-436 + online suppl. material. [publd online 24.iv.2024]

Skála, I. (2024) Two species of the genus Nilotanypus (Diptera: Chironomidae) in Europe. CHIRONOMUS J. Chironomidae Res. 38: 4 pp. [publd online 27.vi.2024][/color]

Song, Ch., Chen, G., Wang, L., Lei, T., Qi, X. (2024) DNA barcoding supports "color-pattern"-based species of Stictochironomus from China (Diptera: Chironomidae). Insects [Basle] 15(3, paper 179): 18 pp. + online suppl. material. [publd 6.iii.2024].

Tang, H., Cranston, P. S. (2024) Redescription of adults of Kribiodorum belalong Cranston (Diptera, Chironomidae, Chironomini) from Gunung Mulu National Park, Sarawak, Malaysia. CHIRONOMUS J. Chironomidae Res. 38: 25-30. [publd online 19.x.2024]

Tevapawat, P., Tungpairojwong, N. (2024) Some biological aspects of bloodworm: Chironomus pallidinubeculosus Tokunaga, 1964 (Diptera: Chironomidae). Tropical Life Scis Res. 35(2): 227-247. [publd 31.vii.2024]