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Posted by Martin Spies
 - December 08, 2023, 02:38:09 PM
2023

Belle, S., Johnson, R. K. (2023) Acidification of freshwater lakes in Scandinavia: impacts and recovery of chironomid communities under accelerating environmental changes. Hydrobiologia: 16 pp. + online suppl. material. [publd online 19.ix.2023]

Egri, Á., Pereszlényi, Á., Szekeres, J., Száz, D., Horváth, G., Kriska, Gy. (2023) Ecological advantage of polarized light pollution: positive effect of a dark lake patch at a canal inflow on habitat of non-biting midges. Limnology: 13 pp. + online suppl. material (incl. 3 videos). [publd online 11.xi.2023]

Głowacki, Ł., Leszczýnska, J., Grzybkowska, M., Pyrzanowski, K., Dukowska, M., Przybylski, M. (2023) Determinants of chironomid species richness in mid-European temperate rivers – Environmental factors, regional influences, diversity, and seasons. Ecol. Indicators 147(paper 109838): 14 pp. + online suppl. material. [publd online 4.ii.2023]

Jin, B., Pan, Ch., Xia, N., Song, J., Luo, H., Zhang, L., Ding, Y. (2023) Swimming of the midge larva: Principles and tricks of locomotion at intermediate Reynolds number. Physics of Fluids 35(3, paper 031903): 12 pp. [publd 14.iii.2023]

Lencioni, V., Adler, P. H., Courtney, G. W. (2023) Order Diptera. Pp. 503-535 in: Maasri, A., Thorp, J. H. (eds), Identification and ecology of freshwater arthropods in the Mediterranean Basin. Elsevier, Amsterdam etc. [publd 27.x.2023. NOTE: subchapters 15.1 to 15.3 have different respective authorship]

Lencioni, V., Moubayed, J., Langton, P. H. (2023) [Chapter 15.2] Family Chironomidae. Pp. 553-602 in: Maasri, A., Thorp, J. H. (eds), Identification and ecology of freshwater arthropods in the Mediterranean Basin. Elsevier, Amsterdam etc. [publd 27.x.2023]

Shaikhutdinov, N. M., Klink, G. V., Garushyants, S. K., Kozlova, O. S., Cherkasov, A. V., Kikawada, T., Okuda, T., Pemba, D., Shagimardanova, E. I., Penin, A. A., Deviatiiarov, R. M., Gazizova, G. R., Cornette, R., Gusev, O. A., Bazykin, G. A. (2023) Population genomics of two closely related anhydrobiotic midges reveals differences in adaptation to extreme desiccation. Genome Biol. Evol. 15(10, Article evad169): 15 pp. + online suppl. material. [publd 14.ix.2023]
Posted by Martin Spies
 - February 17, 2023, 04:07:27 PM
2022

Bespalaya, Y. V., Sousa, R., Gofarov, M. Yu., Kondakov, A. V., Kropotin, A. V., Palatov, D. M., Vikhrev, I. V., Bolotov, I. N. (2022) An exploration of the hidden endosymbionts of Corbicula in the native range. Ecology (e3836): 5 pp. + online suppl. material. [publd online 25.ix.2022]

Bethin, J., Krell, R. K., Philbrick, C. T. (2022) New arthropod-Podostemaceae associations in Central and South America. ZooKeys 1129: 45-54. [publd 11.xi.2022]

Bolotov, I. N., Eliseeva, T. A., Kondakov, A. V., Konopleva, E. S., Palatov, D. M., Sokolova, A. M., Vikhrev, I. V., Gofarov, M. Y., Bovykina, G. V., Chan, N., Lunn, Z., Win, T. (2022) Hidden shelter-like associations of minute Alboglossiphonia leeches (Hirudinea: Glossiphoniidae) with sedentary animals and molluscs. Limnologica 97(item 126028): 24 pp. + online suppl. material. [publd online 23.ix.2022]

Bonacina, L., Fasano, F., Mezzanotte, V., Fornaroli, R. (2022) Effects of water temperature on freshwater macroinvertebrates: a systematic review. Biol. Reviews (item 12903): 31 pp. + online suppl. material. [publd online 29.ix.2022]

Makarchenko, E. A., Semenchenko, A. A., Palatov, D. M. (2022) Chironomids are commensals of the larvae and pupae of Blephariceridae and Simuliidae from the North Caucasus (Diptera: Chironomidae: Orthocladiinae). Zootaxa 5141(4): 373-384. [publd 27.v.2022]

Outa, J. O., Hörweg, C., Avenant-Oldewage, A., Jirsa, F. (2022) Neglected symbionts and other metazoan invertebrates associated with molluscs from Africa's largest lake: Diversity, biotic interactions and bioindication. Freshwater Biol. (item 13998): 11 pp. + online suppl. material. [publd online 28.ix.2022]

Pereira, T. P. L., Garcia, C. de A., Bravo, F., Delabie, J. H. C. (2022) Winged insects associated with the poorly studied forest fire ant Solenopsis virulens (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Eur. J. Entomol. 119: 439-447. [BRAZIL, Atlantic Forest; Lipurometriocnemus spec.]

Prat, N. (2022) A case of phoresis of midges on Zygoptera. CHIRONOMUS J. Chironomidae Res. 35: 1 p. [publd 7.iii.2022]

Ward, M. S., Sites, R. W. (2022) Descriptions of the nymphal instars of Gestroiella siamensis Polhemus, Polhemus, and Sites (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Naucoridae) and phoretic association with Nanocladius Kieffer (Diptera: Chironomidae). Proc. ent. Soc. Washington 123(4): 869-877. [publd 13.iv.2022]
Posted by Martin Spies
 - March 19, 2022, 05:12:16 PM
2021

Baranov, V., Jourdan, J., Hunter-Moffatt, B., Noori, S., Schölderle, S., Haug, J. T. (2021) Global size pattern in a group of important ecological indicators (Diptera, Chironomidae) is driven by latitudinal temperature gradients. Insects 13(1, item 34): 12 pp. + online suppl. material. [publd online 28.xii.2021]

Luís, A. T., Córdoba, F., Antunes, C., Loayza-Muro, R., Grande, J. A., Silva, B., Diaz-Curiel, J., Ferreira da Silva, E. (2021) Extremely acidic eukaryotic (micro) organisms: Life in acid mine drainage polluted environments—Mini-review. Int. J. envir. Res. public Health 19(item 376): 13 pp. [first publd online 30.xii.2021].

Pak, N., Wu, S., Gibson, J. F. (2021) The evolution of marine dwelling in Diptera. Ecology and Evolution 11(16): 11440-11448 + online suppl. material.
Posted by Martin Spies
 - September 14, 2020, 09:59:26 AM
2020

Lackmann, A. R. , McEwen, D. C., Butler, M. G. (2020) Evidence of parthenogenetic populations from the Paratanytarsus laccophilus species group (Diptera: Chironomidae) in the Alaskan Arctic. CHIRONOMUS J. Chironomidae Res. 33: 48-58. [publd online (13.ix.2020)]

Veko, E. N., Polilov, A. A. (2020) Vliyanie miniatyurizatsii na anatomnyu Corynoneura scutellata Winnertz 1846 (Diptera, Chironomidae) - odnogo iz mel'chaishikh dyukrylykh. (The effects of miniaturization on the anatomy of Corynoneura scutellata Winnertz 1846 (Diptera, Chironomidae), one of the smallest dipterans). Zool. Zh. 99(12): 1398-1410. [in Russian, with English abstract]
Posted by Martin Spies
 - November 20, 2018, 11:30:15 AM
Prat, N., García-Roger, E. M. (2018) Are there so many congeneric species of chironomid larvae in a small stream? In: Lencioni, V., Cranston, P. S., Makarchenko, E. A. (eds), Recent advances in the study of Chironomidae: An overview. J. Limnol. 77(1s): 65-80 + online suppl. material.