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#71
Various topics / Re: Forum News
Last post by Ethan Bright - September 04, 2022, 07:21:24 PM
Dear Colleagues,
You will now notice the forum's appearance and function has changed. Previously operating under version 2.0.x, which is no longer supported by SMF programmers, it is running under the new version 2.1.x. There are a number of changes, particularly under the hood, which you can read about in this link: https://www.simplemachines.org/community/index.php?topic=580585.0.
You may have to re-log into the forum with your passwords, but because I was able to do this without any problems, you shouldn't either. But please let me know if you have problems, and I (theoretically) should be able to send you a password reset email.

[Admin edit]
I've been notified of "attachment errors" during running the error log due to forum not locating the perquisite directory, however, that directory exists. If you notice any errors with finding attachments to messages, please let me know.
Cheers, Ethan
#72
Established earlier / Re: Keys
Last post by Martin Spies - September 02, 2022, 08:40:41 AM
2021

Duan, X., Chang, T., Jiao, K.-L., Wang, X.-H., Lin, X.-L. (2021) Monopelopia Fittkau, 1962, a newly recorded genus from Oriental China (Diptera, Chironomidae) with a description of Monopelopia zhengi Lin sp. n. Zootaxa 4980(2): 383-388. [publd 1.vi.2021]

Fang, X.-L., Wang, X.-H., Xiao, Y.-L., Fu, Y. (2021) Thienemanniella convexa (Diptera, Chironomidae), a new species from Hunan Province, China. Annls zool. fenn. 59(1): 29-33. [publd online 2.viii.2021]

Giłka, W., Zakrzewska, M., Lukashevich, E. D., Vorontsov, D. D., Soszyńska-Maj, A., Skibińska, K., Cranston, P. S.(2021) Wanted, tracked down and identified: Mesozoic non-biting midges of the subfamily Chironominae (Chironomidae, Diptera). Zool. J. Linn. Soc. 194(3): 874-892. [publd online 16.vi.2021, with issue pagin. iii.2022]

Hamerlík, L., Silva, F. L. da (2021) Chironomidae of Central America. An illustrated introduction to larval subfossils. CRC Press, Boca Raton; 198 pp.

Lencioni, V., Moubayed, J. (2021) Synorthocladius federicoi sp. nov., a new species occurring in the middle basin of the Adige River, northern Italy (Diptera, Chironomidae, Orthocladiinae). ZooKeys 1057: 105-116. [publd 27.viii.2021]

Lin, X.-L., Yao, Y., Yan, Ch.-C., Liu, W.-B. (2021) Stenochironomus zhengi sp. nov. from Dawei Mountain National Park, Yunnan, China (Diptera: Chironomidae). Zootaxa 4970(2): 385-390. [publd 14.v.2021]

Lin, X.-L., Yu, H.-J., Wang, X.-H., Bu, W.-J., Yan, Ch.-C., Liu, W.-B. (2021) New or little-known Boreoheptagyia (Diptera, Chironomidae) in China inferred from morphology and DNA barcodes. ZooKeys 1040: 187-200. [publd 28.v.2021]

Liu, W.-B., Yao, Y., Yan, Ch.-C., Wang, X.-H., Lin, X.-L. (2021) A new species of Polypedilum (Cerobregma) (Diptera, Chironomidae) from Oriental China. ZooKeys 1011: 139-148. [publd 22.i.2021]

Liu, W., Zhao, C., Kong, F., Yan, Ch., Wang, X. (2021) New species of Limnophyes Eaton (Diptera, Chironomidae) from China and synonymy of L. fuscipygmus Tokunaga, 1940. ZooKeys 1011: 51-61. [publd 18.i.2021]

Makarchenko, E. A., Semenchenko, A. A., Palatov, D. M. (2021) New species and findings of Pagastia Oliver (Diptera: Chironomidae: Diamesinae) from Central Asia, with DNA barcoding of known species of the genus. Zootaxa 4951(3): 559-570. [publd 7.iv.2021]

Makarchenko, E. A., Yavorskaya, N. M. (2021) Redescription of the little-known chironomid species Parachaetocladius akanoctavus Sasa et Kamimura, 1987 (Diptera: Chironomidae: Orthocladiinae) from the Russian Far East. Evraziat. Entomol. Zh. (= Euroas. Entomol. J.) 20(3): 119-124. [in English, some texts also in Russian]

Moubayed-Breil, J., Mary, N. (2021) Smittia zealandiana sp. n. a new semi-aquatic species occurring in the moss carpet of riparian Habitat in Mont Panié, New Caledonia [Diptera, Chironomidae]. Ephemera 22(1): 11-21.

Orel, O. V. (2021) Revision of the genus Neozavrelia Goetghebuer, Thienemann, 1941 (Diptera: Chironomidae) from eastern Siberia and the Russian Far East, with the description of new species. Zootaxa 4938(3): 251-297. [publd 1.iii.2021]

Orendt, C., Bendt, Th. (2021) Orthocladiinae sensu lato (Orthocladiinae, Prodiamesinae, Diamesinae, Podonominae, Buchonomyiinae, Telmatogetoninae) (Diptera: Chironomidae). Keys to Central European larvae with respect to macroscopic characters. DGL Tools (DGL-Arbeitshilfen) 1-2021; German Limnol. Soc. (DGL e. V.), Essen; [2]+140 pp.

Pinho, L. C., Andersen, T. (2021) Neotropical Nilothauma Kieffer, 1921 (Diptera, Chironomidae): Key, eleven new species, re-descriptions, new combination and new records. ZooKeys 1033: 81-125. [publd 22.iv.2021]

Samietz, R. (2021) Tabellen zur Bestimmung der Chironomidae Europas (männliche Imago). Teil 1. Begriffsbestimmung / Schlüssel der Unterfamilien / 1. Telmatogetoninae / 2. Podonominae / 3. Tanypodinae / 4. Buchonomyiinae / 5. Diamesinae / 6. Prodiamesinae. Published by the author, Gotha (Germany); 135 pp. [publd vi.2021]

Samietz, R. (2021) Tabellen zur Bestimmung der Chironomidae Europas (männliche Imago). Teil 2. 7. Orthocladiinae. Band A / Gattungen Aagaardia bis Orthocladius. Published by the author, Gotha (Germany); pp. 1-220 [publd x.2021]

Samietz, R. (2021) Tabellen zur Bestimmung der Chironomidae Europas (männliche Imago). Teil 2. 7. Orthocladiinae. Band B / Gattungen Parachaetocladius bis Zalutschia. Published by the author, Gotha (Germany); pp. 221-334 [publd x.2021]

Samietz, R. (2021) Tabellen zur Bestimmung der Chironomidae Europas (männliche Imago). Teil 3. 8. Chironominae. 8A Chironomini und Pseudochironomini / 8B Tanytarsini. Published by the author, Gotha (Germany); 271 pp. [publd ix.2021]

Samietz, R. (2021) Tabellen zur Bestimmung der Chironomidae Europas (männliche Imago). Teil 4. Literaturverzeichnis / Verzeichnis der Gattungen / Verzeichnis der Arten. Published by the author, Gotha (Germany); 95 pp. [publd vi.2021]

Schiffels, S., Bendt, T., Schäfer, L. (2021) Taxonomie für die Praxis. Bestimmungshilfen – Makrozoobenthos (4). Chironomidenlarven. Band 1 – Chironomini. LANUV-Arbeitsblatt 50, Landesamt für Natur, Umwelt und Verbraucherschutz Nordrhein-Westfalen, Recklinghausen; 293 pp. [NOTE: not a key in a classical sense, but an 'identification aid' offering genus and species profiles with many high-quality photographs; may be ordered for € 25 + postage via: https://www.lanuv.nrw.de/landesamt/veroeffentlichungen/publikationen/arbeitsblaetter[/url]]

Shimabukuro, E. M., Dantas, G. P. S., Lamas, C. J. E. (2021) A new madicolous species of Nilotanypus Kieffer (Diptera: Chironomidae) from Amazon region, northwestern Brazil. Zootaxa 4948(3): 431-438. [publd 22.iii.2021]

Song, Ch., Zhu, B., Liu, W., Qi, X. (2021) On the genus Polypedilum, subgenus Collartomyia, with description of P. (Col.) baishanzuensis sp. nov. from Baishanzu Nature Reserve, China (Diptera, Chironomidae). ZooKeys 1065: 1-12. [publd 22.x.2021]
#73
Various topics / Forum News
Last post by Ethan Bright - August 27, 2022, 08:15:43 PM
Dear Colleagues,
I have migrated the Chironomid Home Page and, with it, the Chironomid Exchange Forum, to a new plan with the host company in order to not only save money, but also cover operation for the next 4 years. Remember, this is a service on my part to our community, as the whole site is not hosted on a free university web server like it was a while ago at the University of Michigan.
I have attempted to assure all files were successfully migrated. However, if you notice any operating problems with both this Forum and the Chironomid Home Page, please let me know by either posting here or sending me an email to ethanbr at umich dot edu.
I hope you are surviving well your climate change exacerbated seasons.
Cheers, Ethan
#74
Recently published / Re: Tanypodinae - new taxa
Last post by Martin Spies - August 18, 2022, 09:51:59 AM
2022

Cranston, P. S., Krosch, M., Tang, H. (2022) Verifying Australian Nilotanypus Kieffer (Chironomidae) in a global perspective: molecular phylogenetic analysis, new species and emended generic diagnoses. CHIRONOMUS J. Chironomidae Res. 35: 12-31. [publd 27.vi.2022]

Mondal, D., Mukherjee, T., Hazra, N. (2022) On a new species of the genus Zavrelimyia Fittkau, 1962 (Diptera: Chironomidae) from India with cladistic relationship and a world key to the known males. Zootaxa 5154(3): 365-379. [publd 15.vi.2022]

Mondal, D., Mukherjee, T., Hazra, N. (2022) Two new species of Monopelopia Fittkau, 1962 from forests in India along with a key to adult males of Oriental and Palearctic species (Diptera: Chironomidae). CHIRONOMUS J. Chironomidae Res. 35: 32-42. [publd 17.viii.2022]
#75
Several life stages / Re: Exemplary descriptions
Last post by Broughton A. Caldwell - August 03, 2022, 04:47:40 PM
The links to Goetghebuer 1912 and 1914 have been replaced by the following link for both publications:
https://www.academieroyale.be/fr/la-biographie-nationale-personnalites-detail/personnalites/maurice-goetghebuer/Vrai/

The illustrations are excellent!
#76
Identification / Re: New publications
Last post by Martin Spies - July 16, 2022, 11:46:45 AM
2022

Hollister, J., Vega, R., Azhar, M. A. H. B. (2022) Automatic identification of non-biting midges (Chironomidae) using object detection and deep learning techniques. Pp. 256-263 in: De Marsico, M., Sanniti di Baja, G., Fred, A. (eds), Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Pattern Recognition Applications and Methods (ICPRAM 2022). scitepress.org (DOI: 10.5220/0000155500003122).
#77
Palaeoecology / Re: Recent publications
Last post by Martin Spies - July 13, 2022, 03:22:51 PM
2022

Hamerlík, L., Silva, F. L., Massaferro, J. (2022) An illustrated guide of subfossil Chironomidae (Insecta: Diptera) from waterbodies of Central America and the Yucatan Peninsula. J. Paleolimnol. 67(3): 201-258. [first publd online 29.i.2022]

McCurry, M. R., Cantrill, D. J., Smith, P. M., Beattie, R., Dettmann, M., Baranov, V., Magee, C., Nguyen, J. M. T., Forster, M. A., Hinde, J., Pogson, R., Wang, H., Marjo, C. E., Vasconcelos, P., Frese, M. (2022) A Lagerstätte from Australia provides insight into the nature of Miocene mesic ecosystems. Science Advances 8(eabm1406): 11 pp. + online suppl. material. [publd online 7.i.2022]
#78
Palaeoecology / Re: Recent publications
Last post by Martin Spies - July 13, 2022, 03:22:25 PM
2021

Cao, Y., Zheng, Z., Luo, X., Langdon, P. G., Dai, Zh., Zhou, A. (2021) Staining of subfossil chironomid head capsules: a method for improving the extraction process from lake sediments and peat. Hydrobiologia 848(3): 631-640 + online suppl. material.

Hamerlík, L., Silva, F. L. da (2021) Chironomidae of Central America. An illustrated introduction to larval subfossils. CRC Press, Boca Raton; 198 pp.

Lombino, A., Atkinson, T., Brooks, S. J., Gröcke, D. R., Holmes, J., Jones, V. J., Marshall, J. D. (2021) Experimental determination of the temperature dependence of oxygen-isotope fractionation between water and chitinous head capsules of chironomid larvae. J. Paleolimnol.: 8 pp. [first publd online, https://doi.org/10.1007/s10933-021-00191-z]
#79
Faunistic publications / 2022
Last post by Martin Spies - July 07, 2022, 10:41:36 AM
2022

Kettani, K. et al. [47 coauthors in total] (2022) Catalogue of the Diptera (Insecta) of Morocco—an annotated checklist, with distributions and a bibliography. ZooKeys 1094: 466 pp. [publd 12.iv.2022]

Tockner, K., Zarfl, C., Robinson, C. T. (eds) (2022) Rivers of Europe. Second edition. Elsevier, Amsterdam, etc.; xix + 922 pp. [several chapters include names of chironomid taxa; for comparison, see also the first ed. (Tockner, K., Uehlinger, U., Robinson, C. T. (eds) 2009)]
#80
Faunistic publications / 2021
Last post by Martin Spies - July 07, 2022, 10:41:10 AM
2021

Ahmad, A. K., Hafizah, A., Sharifah Aisyah, S. O. (2021) Chironomidae (Order: Diptera) diversity in relation to water quality of highland rivers at Cameron Highlands, Malaysia. J. envir. Biol. 42(3): 824-831.

Al-Saffar, H. H., Augul, R. Sh. (2021) Survey of insects in some southern Iraqi marshes. Bull. Iraq nat. Hist. Mus. 16(4): 571-621.

Ebejer, M. J., Gatt, P. (2021) A checklist of the Diptera (Insecta) of the Maltese Islands. Zootaxa 5018(1): 001-075. [publd 10.viii.2021]

Gañan, M., Contador, T., Rendoll, J., Simoes, F., Pérez, C., Graham, G., Castillo, S., Kennedy, J., Convey, P. (2021) Records of Parochlus steinenii in the Maritime Antarctic and sub-Antarctic regions. ZooKeys 1011: 63-71. [publd 18.i.2021]

Hubenov, Z. (2021a) Species composition and distribution of the dipterans (Insecta: Diptera) in Bulgaria. Pensoft Series faunistica 223: 276 pp. [publd +30.ix.2021]

Hubenov, Z. (2021b) Review of the families of the suborder Nematocera (Insecta: Diptera) of Bulgaria. Acta zool. bulg. 74(1, March 2022): 9-26. [first publd online 11.x.2021]

Moubayed-Breil, J., Mary, N., Ashe, P. (2021) Chironomidae connus de Nouvelle-Calédonie. I. Sites prospectés et premières données faunistiques [Diptera]. Ephemera 22(2): 103-136. [publd "2020 (2021)", but may be 2022; in French, with English summary]

Namayandeh, A., Ghaderi, E., Mohammadi, H. (2021) New faunistic records of Chironomidae (Diptera: Insecta) from Iran. Iran. J. Animal Biosyst. 17(1): 23-27. [publd online 4.xi.2021]

Namayandeh, A., Ghaderi, E., Mohammadi, H., Ghobari, H. (2021) An overview of the Iranian Chironomidae (Diptera) diversity with an updated checklist with the provincial distribution. Kavkazskii ent. Byull. / Caucasian ent. Bull. 17(2): 401-407. [publd online 15.xii.2021]

Odabaşı, S. (2021) Biodiversity of freshwater macroinvertebrates on Gökçeada Island (North Aegean Sea, Turkey). Oceanol. hydrobiol. Studs 50(4): 421-429.

Working Group on General Status of NWT Species (2021) NWT Species 2021-2025 – General status ranks of wild species in the Northwest Territories. Dept Envir. and nat. Resources, Govt Northwest Territories, Yellowknife, NT, Canada; 389 pp.