Chironomid Exchange Forum

2018

Amora, G., Hamada, N., Pinho, L. C. (2018) Stenochironomus munteanpurin sp. n., a new leaf-mining species from Brazil (Diptera: Chironomidae). Zootaxa 4382(3): 553-564.

Andersen, T. (2018) A new species of Claudiotendipes Andersen, Mendes & Pinho, 2017 from Bolivia (Diptera, Chironomidae). Norw. J. Ent. 65(1): 22-25.

Andersen, T., Donato, M., Hagenlund, L. K., Mauad, M., Mendes, H. F. (2018) A review of Neotropical Axarus, with the description of five new species (Diptera: Chironomidae). Stud. neotrop. Fauna Envir. 53(3): 167-183. [first publ. online (13.iv.2018)]

Chen, Sh., Zhang, R., Ferrington, L. C., Jr (2018) A new species of Harnischia Kieffer, 1918 (Diptera: Chironomidae) from Mongolia. J. Kansas ent. Soc. 90(4): 334-340. ["2017" but paper "Accepted 16 April 2018"; publd x.2018]

Cranston, P. S. (2018) Kribiodorum Kieffer (= Stelechomyia Reiss) (Diptera: Chironomidae) extends into the Oriental region: three new species and expanded diagnoses. Zootaxa 4486(4): 535-547. [publd 1.x.2018]

Cranston, P. S., Tang, H. (2018) Skusella Freeman (Diptera: Chironomidae): new species, immature stages from Africa, Asia and Australia, and expanded distributions. Zootaxa 4450(1): 041-065. [publd 23.vii.2018]

Epler, J. H. (2018) The genus Cryptotendipes Beck et Beck in Florida, with the description of a new species (Diptera: Chironomidae: Chironominae). Zootaxa 4433(3): 583-594.

Fusari, L. M., Dantas, G. P. S., Hamada, N., Andrade-Souza, V., Lima, K. M., Silva, J. G. (2018) Not endemic after all: Imparipecten Freeman, 1961 (Diptera: Chironomidae) described from the Neotropical Region. Zootaxa 4532(3): 396-406.

Giłka, W., Paasivirta, L., Gadawski, P., Grabowski, M. (2018) Morphology and molecules say: Tanytarsus latens, sp. nov. from Finland (Diptera: Chironomidae). Zootaxa 4471(3): 569-579.

Kodama, A., Kawai, K., Saito, H. (2018) A new species of Tanytarsus van der Wulp, 1874 (Diptera: Chironomidae) and the first Japanese record of Tanytarsus ovatus Johannsen, 1932 with DNA barcodes. Zootaxa 4422(4): 591-599.

Moubayed-Breil, J., Ashe, P. (2018) Micropsectra oksanae sp. n., a new crenophilous species inhabiting karstic springs and streams in south-eastern France (Diptera: Chironomidae, Tanytarsini). Bull. Irish Biogeogr. Soc. 42: 191-202.

Moubayed-Breil, J., Ashe, P. (2018) Micropsectra alyssae sp. n. and M. ekremi sp. n., two new species inhabiting glacial springs and peat bogs in the eastern Pyrenees, France (Diptera: Chironomidae, Tanytarsini). Bull. Irish Biogeogr. Soc. 42: 203-224.

Orel, O. V. (2018) New species of the non-biting midges of tribe Chironomini (Diptera, Chironomidae) from the Bolshekhekhtsyrsky Reserve (Russia, Khabarovsk Territory). Zootaxa 4461(2): 269-276.

Orel, O. V., Bazova, N. V. (2018) New species of the genus Microtendipes Kieffer, 1915 (Diptera, Chironomidae) from Buryatia (Russia). Zootaxa 4425(1): 175-184.

Pal, G., Hazra, N. (2018a) Pre-imaginal and adult stages of one new species of the genus Glyptotendipes Kieffer (Diptera: Chironomidae: Chironominae) from West Bengal, India. Oriental Insects: 13 pp. [first publ. online (i.2018), but the proposed new species name is NOT nomenclaturally available from this version]

Pal, G., Hazra, N. (2018b) Two new species of the genus Cryptotendipes Lenz (Diptera: Chironomidae) from India with a worldwide key to the genus. Oriental Insects: 12 pp. [first publ. online (29.iii.2018)]

Pinho, L. C. (2018) Bringing taxonomy to school kids: Aedokritus adotivae sp. n. from Amazon (Diptera: Chironomidae). Zootaxa 4399(4): 586-590.

Puchalski, M., Paasivirta, L., Gilka, W. (2018) Cladotanytarsus saetheri sp. nov. and C. gedanicus Gilka: Holarctic sibling species (Diptera: Chironomidae). Zootaxa 4394(3): 428-436.

Tang, H. (2018) Conochironomus Freeman, 1961 (Diptera: Chironomidae) newly recorded from China, with description of a new species. Pan-Pacific Ent. 94(3): 167-180.

Trivinho-Strixino, S., Shimabukuro, E. M. (2018) Brazilian Pseudochironomini (Diptera: Chironomidae) Part 2. New Pseudochironomus and Riethia species. Zootaxa 4403(2): 245-260.

Trivinho-Strixino, S., Silva, F. L. da (2018) Chironomus rishii sp. n., an enigmatic non-biting midge (Diptera: Chironomidae: Chironominae) from Neotropical Region. Zootaxa 4504(3): 439-446.

Yamamoto, N., Yamamoto, M. (2018) Taxonomic information on some Japanese Chironomidae (Diptera) described by Dr. M. Sasa (†). Zootaxa 4515(4): 516-528.

Murray, D. A., O'Connor, J. P., Ashe, P. J. (2018) Chironomidae (Diptera) of Ireland - a review, checklist and their distribution in Europe. Occas. Publ. Irish biogeogr. Soc. 12: i-x, 1-404.

Reiff, N. (2018) Zuckmücken (Chironomidae) in diversen Gewässern des Gesäuses. [Non-biting midges (Chironomidae) in various waters of the Gesäuse mountains]. In: Kreiner, D. et al. (eds), Quellen-Forschung 2012-2017. Schriften des Nationalparks Gesäuse 15: 65-76.

Shimabukuro, E. M., Trivinho-Strixino, S. (2018) Madicolous Chironomidae from the Brazilian Atlantic Forest: a checklist with notes on altitudinal distributions (Diptera, Insecta). ZooKeys 751: 41-73 + online suppl. material.

2018

Caldwell, B. A., Jacobsen, R. E. (2018) A new species of Heterotrissocladius Spärck, 1923 (Diptera: Chironomidae: Orthocladiinae) from Georgia, USA. In: Lencioni, V., Cranston, P. S., Makarchenko, E. A. (eds), Recent advances in the study of Chironomidae: An overview. J. Limnol. 77(1s): 59-64. [NOTE: Due to ICZN Code regulations, nomenclatural changes in this paper do not take effect from the online version, but from the printed one only.]

Makarchenko, E. A., Makarchenko, M. A. (2018) Three species of Hydrobaenus Fries (Diptera: Chironomidae: Orthocladiinae) from Belarus. Zootaxa 4394(2): 279-287.

Makarchenko, E. A., Makarchenko, M. A. (2018) Khironomidy rodov Chaetocladius Kieffer i Hydrobaenus Fries (Diptera, Chironomidae) iz kollektsii N.I. Zelentsova. (The chironomids of Chaetocladius Kieffer and Hydrobaenus Fries (Diptera, Chironomidae) from collection of N.I. Zelentsov). Evraziatskii ent. Zh. [= Euroasian ent. J.] 17(3): 171-178. [in Russian, with English abstract]

Makarchenko, E. A., Makarchenko, M. A., Semenchenko, A. A., Palatov, D. M. (2018) Morphological description and DNA barcoding of Chaetocladius (Chaetocladius) elisabethae sp. nov. (Diptera: Chironomidae: Orthocladiinae) from the Moscow Region. Zootaxa 4403(2): 378-388.

Moubayed-Breil, J. (2018) Propsilocerus seezanus sp.n. a new alpine element occurring in the oligotrophic high mountain Lake Seez, south eastern France (Diptera, Chironomidae, Orthocladiinae). Evraziatskii ent. Zh. [= Euroasian ent. J.] 17(3): 167-170. [in English, with Russian abstract] NOTE: The described species might be a new one, but it fits with Diplocladius, not at all with Propsilocerus.

Moubayed-Breil, J., Ashe, P. (2018) Cricotopus (s. str.) latellai sp. n., a new rheophilic species of the tremulus-group from the Italian and French Maritime Alps (Diptera: Chironomidae). CHIRONOMUS J. Chironomidae Res. 31: 4-15. [publd online (29.vi.2018)]

Moubayed-Breil, J., Baranov, V. (2018) Taxonomic notes on the genus Hydrobaenus with description of H. simferopolus sp. nov. from Crimea (Diptera: Chironomidae). Acta ent. Mus. natl. Pragae 58(2): 347-355.

Moubayed-Breil, J., Lods-Crozet, B. (2018) On the genus Chaetocladius s. str. Kieffer, 1911 from Switzerland with descriptions of five new relic species occurring in glacial alpine springs and streams (Diptera, Chironomidae). Alpine Ent. 2(1): 15-34. [first publd online (iii.2018), doi: 10.3897/alpento.2.22759]

Ospina-Torres, R., Mey, W., Jaime-Murcia, P. (2018) Two new orthoclad species from Colombian Andes (Diptera: Chironomidae). Zootaxa 4472(2): 385-392.

Prat, N., Paggi, A., Ribera, C., Acosta, R., Ríos-Touma, B., Villamarín, C., Rivera, F., Ossa, P., †Rieradevall, M. (2018) The Cricotopus (Oliveiriella) (Diptera: Chironomidae) of the high altitude Andean streams, with description of a new species, C. (O.) rieradevallae. Neotrop. Ent. 47(2): 256–270. [print version ("iv.2018"). NOTE: The new species name is not nomenclaturally available from the paper's "Online First" version (ix.2017)]

Silva, F. L. da, Song, C. (2018) Oleia fieldsi sp. n., a new Orthocladiinae (Diptera: Chironomidae) species from the Brazilian Atlantic rainforest. Zootaxa 4526(1): 96-100.

2018

Lackmann, A. R., Butler, M. G. (2018) Breaking the rule: Five larval instars in the podonomine midge Trichotanypus alaskensis Brundin from Barrow, Alaska. In: Lencioni, V., Cranston, P. S., Makarchenko, E. A. (eds), Recent advances in the study of Chironomidae: An overview. J. Limnol. 77(1s): 31-39.

Lin, X.-L., Stur, E., Ekrem, T. (2018) Molecular phylogeny and temporal diversification of Tanytarsus van der Wulp (Diptera: Chironomidae) support generic synonymies, a new classification and centre of origin. Syst. Ent.: 19 pp. + online supp. info. [first publ. online, 30.iii.2018, DOI: 10.1111/syen.12292]

Yamamoto, N., Yamamoto, M. (2018) Taxonomic information on some Japanese Chironomidae (Diptera) described by Dr. M. Sasa (†). Zootaxa 4515(4): 516-528.