Chironomid Exchange Forum

2022

Montaño-Campaz, M. L., Dias, L. G., Bacca, T., Toro-Restrepo, B., Oliveira, E. E. (2022) Exposures to deltamethrin on immature Chironomus columbiensis drive sublethal and transgenerational effects on their reproduction and wing morphology. Chemosphere 296: . [publd online 28.ii.2022]

New information concerning the 21st International Symposium has just been published:

Cornette, R. (2022)  The 21st International Symposium on Chironomidae – 2022 online.  CHIRONOMUS J. Chironomidae Res. 35: 1 p.
https://www.ntnu.no/ojs/index.php/chironomus/article/view/4880/4447

A colleague has just alerted me to the fact that the contents of
Langton, P. H., Visser, H. (2003) Chironomidae exuviae. A key to pupal exuviae of the West Palaearctic Region. World Biodiversity Database CD-ROM Series; ETI, Amsterdam
are available online at:
https://chironomidae-exuviae.linnaeus.naturalis.nl/linnaeus_ng/app/views/introduction/topic.php?id=3319&epi=77

2018

Elías-Gutiérrez, M., Valdez-Moreno, M., Topan, J., Young, M. R., Cohuo-Colli, J. A. (2018) Improved protocols to accelerate the assembly of DNA barcode reference libraries for freshwater zooplankton. Ecology and Evolution 8(5): 3002-3018 + 6 online suppl. files. [Collecting methods included submerged light traps. Page 3009: "Curiously, some Chironomidae larvae apparently emerged as adults inside of the light traps."]

Schloemer, S., Hoffmann, A. (2018) The Beaver Dam Vacuum Sampler - a new sampling method to investigate the invertebrate fauna in beaver dams. Lauterbornia 85: 117-121.

2017

Ferrari, B. J. D., Faburé, J. (2017) Field assessment of reproduction-related traits of chironomids using a newly developed emergence platform (E-Board). Ecotox. envir. Safety 137: 186-193 + online suppl. material.

Yoon, S.-S., Kim, M.-H., Choi, S.-K., Eo, J., Kwon, S.-I., Song, Y.-J. (2017) (The development of a sampling instrument for aquatic organisms in rice paddy fields: submerged funnel traps with attractants). Korean J. envir. Biol. 35(4): 640-647. [in Korean, with English abstract]

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: 29-33. [publd online 2.viii.2021]

Kong, F.-Q., Wang, X.-H., Lin, X.-L. (2021) Bryophaenocladius huadingensis (Diptera: Orthocladiinae), a new species from China. Annls zool. fenn. 58(1-3): 65-68. [publd online 25.ii.2021]

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]

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]

Moubayed-Breil, J., Garrigue, J. (2021) Orthocladius (Or.) massanus sp. n. a new crenophilous species inhabiting karstic springs in Eastern Pyrenees [Diptera, Chironomidae]. Ephemera 22(1): 1-10.

Moubayed-Breil, J., Lods-Crozet, B. (2021) Pseudorthocladius immezensis sp. n., a new relict species inhabiting the Macun high-alpine stream, Swiss Alps (Diptera: Chironomidae). CHIRONOMUS J. Chironomidae Res. 34: 13-20. [publd 24.viii.2021]

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.

Namayandeh, A., Beresford, D. V. (2021) Review of the genus Doncricotopus (Orthocladiinae: Chironomidae): with the description of a new species from Canada. J. nat. Hist. 55(19–20): 1195-1211. [publd online 21.vii.2021]

Ree, H., Kang, H. J. (2021) Three new species of Krenosmittia (Diptera: Chironomidae: Orthocladiinae) found in Korea. Animal Syst. Evol. Divers. 37(1): 64-69. [publd 31.i.2021]

Ree, H., Kang, H. J. (2021) Four new species of Parorthocladius (Diptera: Chironomidae: Orthocladiinae) found in Korea. Animal Syst. Evol. Divers. 37(1): 70-77. [publd 31.i.2021]

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]

Zakrzewska, M., Jankowska, A. (2021) A new fossil Stempellinella from Eocene Baltic amber, with systematic notes and amendment of the generic diagnosis (Diptera: Chironomidae). Zootaxa 4908(4): 505-514. [publd 18.i.2021]

2020

Khramov, A. V., Bashkuev, A. S., Lukashevich, E. D. (2020) [The fossil record of long-proboscid nectarivorous insects]. Entomol. Obozr. 99(4): 737-844. [English version in Ent. Rev. 100(7): 881-968]

Lukashevich, E. D. (2020) [Rare nematoceran dipterans (Insecta: Diptera) from the Khasurty locality, Transbaikalia]. Paleontol. Zh. 2020(6): 43-54. [English version in Paleontol. J. 54(6): 600-612]

Zakrzewska, M., Singh, H., Wagner-Wysiecka, E., Giłka, W. (2020) Minute and diverse in fossil sticky stuff: Tanytarsini (Diptera: Chironomidae) from early Eocene Indian Cambay amber. Zool. J. Linnean Soc.: 28 pp. [first publd online (3.i.2020)]

2020

Finch, G., Nandyal, S., Perretta, C., Davies, B., Rosendale, A. J., Holmes, C. J., Gantz, J. D., Spacht, D. E., Bailey, S. T., Chen, X., Oyen, K., Didion, E. M., Chakraborty, S., Lee Jr, R. E., Denlinger, D. L., Matter, S. F., Attardo, G. M., Weirauch, M. T., Benoit, J. B. (2020) Multi-level analysis of reproduction in an Antarctic midge identifies female and male accessory gland products that are altered by larval stress and impact progeny viability. Scientific Reports 10(item 19791): 27 pp. + online suppl. material.

Kotrba, M. (2020) The DNA barcoding project on German Diptera: An appreciative and critical analysis with four suggestions for improving the development and reliability of DNA-based identification. Eur. J. Entomol. 117: 315-327. [publd online 28.vii.2020]

Zhang, L., Yang, J., Li, H., You, J., Chatterjee, N., Zhang, X. (2020) Development of the transcriptome for a sediment ecotoxicological model species, Chironomus dilutus. Chemosphere 244(paper 125541): 12 pp. + online suppl. material.

2020

Finch, G., Nandyal, S., Perretta, C., Davies, B., Rosendale, A. J., Holmes, C. J., Gantz, J. D., Spacht, D. E., Bailey, S. T., Chen, X., Oyen, K., Didion, E. M., Chakraborty, S., Lee Jr, R. E., Denlinger, D. L., Matter, S. F., Attardo, G. M., Weirauch, M. T., Benoit, J. B. (2020) Multi-level analysis of reproduction in an Antarctic midge identifies female and male accessory gland products that are altered by larval stress and impact progeny viability. Scientific Reports 10(item 19791): 27 pp. + online suppl. material.

Imada, Y. (2020) A novel leaf-rolling chironomid, Eukiefferiella endobryonia sp. nov. (Diptera, Chironomidae, Orthocladiinae), highlights the diversity of underwater chironomid tube structures. ZooKeys 906: 73-111.