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Started by Martin Spies, April 18, 2014, 12:10:46 PM

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Martin Spies

2014 and earlier

Cranston, P. S. (2014) A new putatively cryptobiotic midge, Polypedilum ovahimba sp. nov. (Diptera: Chironomidae), from southern Africa.  Austral Ent. 53(4): 373-379.

Fuentes, M. C., Donato, M. (2014) Review of taxonomic status of Polypedilum quinquesetosum (Edwards, 1931) (Diptera, Chironomidae). Revta Soc. Ent. Argent. 73(3-4): 139-144.

Fusari, L. M., Bellodi, C. F., Lamas, C. J. E. (2014) A new species of sponge-dwelling Oukuriella (Chironomidae) from Brazil. Zootaxa 3764(4): 418-426.

Fusari, L. M., Lamas, C. J. E. (2014) A new species of Stempellina Thienemann & Bause from Mato Grosso do Sul, Brazil (Diptera, Chironomidae). Revta Bras. Entomol. 58(3): 241-243.

Fusari, L. M., Roque, F. O., Hamada, N. (2014) Systematics of Oukuriella Epler, 1986, including a revision of the species associated with freshwater sponges. Insect Syst. Evol. 45(2): 117-157.

Majumdar, U., Mazumdar, A., Chaudhuri, P. K. (2009) Life stages and a short account of biology of Chironomus mayri, a new species of the genus Chironomus Meigen (Diptera: Chironomidae) from India. Int. J. dipterol. Res. 20(3): 145-156.

Orel, O. V. [née Zorina] (2014) To systematics of the genus Saetheria Jackson (Diptera, Chironomidae) from the Russian Far East. Zootaxa 3802(1): 065-074.

Qi, X., Lin, X., Wang, X., Shao, X. (2014) A new species of Nilothauma Kieffer from China, with a key to known species of the genus (Diptera: Chironomidae). Zootaxa 3869(5): 573-578.

Qi, X., Shi, S., Lin, X., Wang, X. (2014) A new species of Microtendipes Kieffer (Diptera: Chironomidae) from Gutian Mountain, Zhejiang. Entomotaxonomia 36(4): 289-292.

Qi, X., Shi, S., Zhang, R., Wang, X. (2014) Polypedilum (Tripodura) cypellum sp. nov. (Diptera: Chironomidae) from Xishan Island, Zhejiang Province. Entomotaxonomia 36(2): 119-122.

Yan, C., Wang, X., Bu, W. (2012) A new species in the genus Paracladopelma Harnisch (Diptera: Chironomidae) from China. Entomotaxonomia 34(2): 291-295.

Martin Spies

#1
2015

Amora, G., Hamada, N., Pinho, L. C. (2015) New species and records of Goeldichironomus Fittkau, 1965 from Brazil (Diptera: Chironomidae). Zootaxa 4059(2): 383-392.

Andersen, T., Bello González, O., Baars, J.-R., Earle, W. (2015) A new invasive weed-feeding species of Polypedilum (Pentapedilum) Kieffer from South Africa (Diptera: Chironomidae, Chironominae). Zootaxa 4000(5): 559-570.

Giłka, W., Dobosz, R. (2015) A contribution to the systematics of Australasian Tanytarsini (Diptera: Chironomidae): first descriptions from New Caledonia. Zootaxa 3980(1): 127-135.

Moubayed-Breil, J., Ashe, P. (2015) Paratanytarsus fontinalis sp. nov., a crenophilous element inhabiting karstic springs in southern France [Diptera, Chironomidae, Tanytarsini]. Ephemera 15(1): 3-16. ["2013"]

Pinho, L. C., Fusari, L. M., Lamas, C. J. E. (2015) Three new species of Polypedilum Kieffer (Diptera: Chironomidae) from Neotropical region. Zootaxa 3947(4): 563-572.

Qi, X., Lin, X., Liu, Y., Wang, X. (2015) Two new species of Stenochironomus Kieffer (Diptera, Chironomidae) from Zhejiang, China. ZooKeys 479: 109-119.

Spies, M., Dettinger-Klemm, A. (2015) Diagnoses for Nubensia, n. gen. (Diptera, Chironomidae, Chironomini), with the first full descriptions of the adult female and larva of N. nubens (Edwards, 1929). Zootaxa 3994(1): 109-121.

Trivinho-Strixino, S., Pepinelli, M. (2015) A systematic study on Endotribelos Grodhaus (Diptera: Chironomidae) from Brazil including DNA barcoding to link males and females. Zootaxa 3936(1): 001-041.

Trivinho-Strixino, S., Wiedenbrug, S., Silva, F. L. da (2015) New species of Tanytarsus van der Wulp (Diptera: Chironomidae: Tanytarsini) from Brazil. Europ. J. Envir. Scis 5(1): 92-100.

Yamamoto, N., Yamamoto, M. (2015) A revised subgeneric position for Polypedilum (Probolum) simantokeleum, with description of a new Uresipedilum species in Japan (Diptera: Chironomidae). Zootaxa 3999(3): 439-445.

Yamamoto, N., Yamamoto, M., Hirowatari, T. (2015) Taxonomic study on the subgenus Uresipedilum (Diptera: Chironomidae: Polypedilum), with description of a new species from the Yaeyama Islands, Okinawa, Japan. Europ. J. Envir. Scis 5(1): 51-56.

Yan, C.-c., Yan, J., Jiang, L., Guo, Q., Liu, T., Ge, X.-y., Wang, X.-h., Pan, B.-p. (2015) Parachironomus Lenz from China and Japan (Diptera, Chironomidae). ZooKeys 494: 31-50.

Zhang, R., Song, C., Wang, L., Wang, X. (2015) Two new species of the acifer species group of Polypedilum subgenus Tripodura Townes from China (Diptera: Chironomidae). Zootaxa 3918(4): 571-578.

Zhang, Z.-Y., Zhang, R.-L., Lin, X.-L., Qi, X. (2015) Notes on the subgenus Polypedilum (Uresipedilum) Oyewo & Sæther (Diptera: Chironomidae) in Zhejiang Province, China. Pakistan J. Zool. 47(3): 769-773.

Martin Spies

#2
2016

Andersen, T. (2016) Madachironomus, a new genus of tribe Pseudochironomini (Diptera: Chironomidae, Chironominae) from Madagascar. CHIRONOMUS J. Chironomidae Res. 29: 15-26. [publ. online (xii.2016)]

Andersen, T., Bello González, O. C., Hagenlund, L. K. (2016) Three new Neotropical species of Nilothauma Kieffer, 1921 (Diptera: Chironomidae). Annls Limnol. / Int. J. Limnol. 52: 253-261.

Bello González, O. C., Andersen, T., Hagenlund, L. K. (2016) A new species of Xestochironomus Sublette & Wirth, 1972 from Cuba (Diptera, Chironomidae). Norw. J. Ent. 63(1): 44-49.

Bellodi, C. F., Fusari, L. M., Roque, F. O. (2016) New species and records of Oukuriella Epler, 1986 from the Neotropical region (Diptera: Chironomidae). Zootaxa 4078(1): 187-196.

Cranston, P. S. (2016) Conochironomus (Diptera: Chironomidae) in Asia: new and redescribed species and vouchering issues. Zootaxa 4109(3): 315–331.

Cranston, P. S., Martin, J., Mulder, M., Spies, M. (2016) Clarification of Einfeldia Kieffer, 1922 (Diptera: Chironomidae) with E. australiensis (Freeman, 1961), comb. n. based on immature stages. Zootaxa 4158(4): 491-506.

Cranston, P. S., Martin, J., Spies, M. (2016) Cryptic species in the nuisance midge Polypedilum nubifer (Skuse) (Diptera: Chironomidae) and the status of Tripedilum Kieffer. Zootaxa 4079(4): 429-447.

Dantas, G. P. S., Hamada, N., Mendes, H. F. (2016) Contribution to the knowledge of Stenochironomus Kieffer (Diptera, Chironomidae) from Brazil: seven new species and description of females and immatures of some previously known species. Zootaxa 4117(1): 1-47.

Das, N., Majumdar, U., Mazumdar, A., Hazra, N. (2016) Life stages of eight new species of Chironomus Meigen (Diptera: Chironomidae: Chironominae) of the Eastern Himalaya of India. Oriental Insects 49(1-2): 99-149 (ii.2016)]. NOTE that the paper was first published online but does not include any record of deposition in ZooBank; thus, the new taxon names and any other nomenclature proposed take effect from the print edition only.

Epler, J. H. (2016) A new species of Dicrotendipes (Diptera: Chironomidae) from Florida. Zootaxa 4208(1): 77-83.

Hazra, N., Brahma, S., Sanyal, K. (2016) New species of Rheotanytarsus Thienemann and Bause (Diptera: Chironomidae: Tanytarsini) from Darjeeling–Sikkim, Himalaya, India, with revised keys to the adult males and pupae of the species of the Oriental Region. Psyche 2016, 14 pp.; http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2016/5924521

Hazra, N., Sanyal, K., Brahma, S. (2016) New records of Polypedilum Kieffer (Diptera: Chironomidae) from India. Annls Soc. Ent. France (N. S.) [first publ. online, 16 pp.,  http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00379271.2016.1149439 (v.2016); with pagin. in issue 51(5-6): 392-407 (vi.2016)]

Niitsuma, H. (2016) Two species of Nilothauma Kieffer (Diptera, Chironomidae) from Japan, with description of a new species. Zootaxa 4079(5): 573-581.

Orel, O. V., Makarchenko, E. A. (2016) A new species of the genus Dicrotendipes Kieffer, 1913 (Diptera: Chironomidae: Chironominae) from North Korea. Far Eastern Ent. 323: 1-6.

Parise, A. G., Pinho, L. C. (2016) A new species of Stenochironomus Kieffer, 1919 from the Atlantic Rainforest in southern Brazil (Diptera: Chironomidae). Aquatic Insects 37(1): 1-7.

Qi, X., Peng, J., Zhang, R., Wang, X. (2016) Dicrotendipes weiqiangensis sp. nov. (Diptera: Chironomidae) from Zhejiang, China. Entomotaxonomia 38(3): 208-212.

Qi, X., Tang, H., Wang, X. (2016) Notes on Nilothauma Kieffer from Oriental China, with descriptions of three new species (Diptera, Chironomidae). ZooKeys 574: 143-159.

Qi, X., Zhang, R., Zhu, L., Wang, X. (2016) A new species in the genus Polypedilum Kieffer (Diptera: Chironomidae) from the Xianju National Park, Zhejiang. Entomotaxonomia 38(2): 131-134.

Singh, P., Rawal, D. (2016) Einfeldia pritiensis, a new species of Chironomidae (Diptera) from Udaipur Region (Rajasthan, India). J. Ent. Zool. Studs 4(2, part E): 319-320.

Tang, H. (2016) Paralauterborniella from Oriental China (Diptera: Chironomidae). Oriental Insects 50(4): 160-170.

Yamamoto, N., Yamamoto, M., Hirowatari, T. (2016) A new species of the subgenus Tripodura (Diptera: Chironomidae: Polypedilum) from Yaeyama Islands, Japan. Jap. J. syst. Ent. 22(2): 191-194.

Yamamoto, N., Yamamoto, M., Hirowatari, T. (2016) Erection of a new subgenus in the genus Polypedilum Kieffer, 1912 (Diptera: Chironomidae) from Japan. Jap. J. syst. Ent. 22(2): 195-197.

Yan, Ch.-C., Guo, Q., Liu, T., Guo, W., Wang, X.-H., Pan, B.-P. (2016) Review of the genus Harnischia Kieffer from China (Diptera, Chironomidae), with description of one new species. ZooKeys 634: 79-99.

Yan, Ch., Zhao, G., Liu, T., Guo, Q., Hou, Z., Wang, X., Pan, B. (2016) A new record and two new species of Cryptochironomus Kieffer, 1918 from China (Diptera, Chironomidae). Zootaxa 4208(5): 485-493.

Zhang, R., Gu, J., Qi, X., Wang, X. (2016) A new species of the genus Stenochironomus Kieffer (Diptera: Chironomidae) from Xianju National Park, Zhejiang Province, China. Entomotaxonomia 38(4): 281-284.

Zhang, R., Song, Ch., Qi, X., Wang, X. (2016) Taxonomic review on the subgenus Tripodura Townes (Diptera: Chironomidae: Polypedilum) from China with eleven new species and a supplementary world checklist. Zootaxa 4136(1): 1-53.

Martin Spies

#3
2017

Acosta, R., Prat, N., Ribera, C., Michailova, P., Hernández-Fonseca, M. C., Alcocer, J. (2017) Chironomus alchichica sp. n. (Diptera: Chironomidae) from Lake Alchichica, Mexico. Zootaxa 4365(1): 53-70.

Andersen, T., Mendes, H. F., Pinho, L. C. (2017) Two new Neotropical Chironominae genera (Diptera: Chironomidae). CHIRONOMUS J. Chironomidae Res. 30: 26-54 + appendix file. [publd online (viii.2017)]

Cao, Y., Tang, H. (2017) Taxonomic review of Zavreliella Kieffer from East Asia. Zool. Studies 56(paper 5): 10 pp. [publd online; nomencl. data registered with ZooBank]

Cornette, R., Yamamoto, N., Yamamoto, M., Kobayashi, T., Petrova, N. A., Gusev, O., Shimura, S., Kikawada, T., Pemba, D., Okuda, T. (2017) A new anhydrobiotic midge from Malawi, Polypedilum pembai sp.n. (Diptera: Chironomidae), closely related to the desiccation tolerant midge, Polypedilum vanderplanki Hinton. Syst. Ent. 42(4): 814-825 + online suppl. file

Dantas, G. P. S., Giłka, W. (2017) New Tanytarsus van der Wulp from the Brazilian Amazonia indicate clues to intrageneric relations (Diptera: Chironomidae). Zootaxa 4294(2): 281-291.

Dantas, G. P. S., Hamada, N. (2017) Three new species of Nilothauma Kieffer (Diptera: Chironomidae) from Brazil. Zootaxa 4282(2): 350-360.

Fusari, L. M., Pinho, L. C., Lamas, C. J. E. (2017) New species and records of Zavreliella Kieffer, 1920 from Neotropical region (Diptera: Chironomidae). Zootaxa 4221(4): 486-490.

Konar, S., Hazra, N. (2017) A new species of Polypedilum Kieffer, 1912 (Diptera: Chironomidae) from India. Oriental Insects 51(3): 276-284. [publd 9.ii.2017]

Langton, P. H. (2017) Amplified description of Microtendipes brevitarsis Brundin and M. nigritia sp.n. described from Scotland (Diptera, Chironomidae). Dipterists Digest, Sec. Ser. 23(2): 141-149.

Lin, X.-L., Stur, E., Ekrem, T. (2017) DNA barcodes and morphology reveal unrecognized species in Chironomidae (Diptera). Insect Syst. Evol.: 70 pp. + suppl. material [first publd online (18.x.2017); with pagin. in issue 49(4): 329-398 [ix.2018)]
[includes eight new species in Tanytarsus]

Moubayed-Breil, J. (2017) Microtendipes morii sp.n., Polypedilum (Polypedilum) mercantourus sp.n. and Virgatanytarsus rossaroi sp.n., three new Tyrrhenian species from cold mountain streams and lakes in Corsica and the Maritime Alps (Diptera, Chironomidae). Evraziat. Entomol. Zh. (= Euroas. Entomol. J.) 16(3): 213-227. [in English, with Russian abstract]

Orel, O. V. (2017) Two new species and new records of the genus Parachironomus Lenz, 1921 (Diptera, Chironomidae) from northern Russia. Zootaxa 4312(3): 531-546.

Pal, G., Hazra, N. (2017) Description of Chironomus bifidus sp. n. and first record of Ch. crassiforceps (Kieffer, 1916) from India (Diptera: Chironomidae: Chironominae). Far Eastern Entomologist 338: 10-15. [publd "July" 2017] [The species name proposed as new looks to be a junior synonym of Kiefferulus nodulosus (Hashimoto in Hashimoto et al., 1981).]

Puchalski, M., Giłka, W. (2017) Cladotanytarsus Kieffer (Diptera: Chironomidae): several distinctive species reviewed on the basis of records from Canada and USA. Zootaxa 4242(2): 344–358.

Puchalski, M., Giłka, W. (2017) A new species of Cladotanytarsus (Lenziella) from Oregon supports the systematic concept of the subgenus (Diptera: Chironomidae). Zootaxa 4268(4): 573-580.

Qi, X., Wang, X.-H., Andersen, T., Lin, X.-L. (2017) A new species of Manoa Fittkau (Diptera: Chironomidae), with DNA barcodes from Xianju National Park, Oriental China. Zootaxa 4231(3): 398-408.

Shimabukuro, E. M., Pepinelli, M., Trivinho-Strixino, S. (2017) Brazilian Pseudochironomini (Diptera: Chironomidae) Part 1. New Pseudochironomus Malloch from highlands. Zootaxa 4317(1): 134-154.

Tang, H., Cranston, P. S. (2017) Review of Nilodosis Kieffer (Diptera: Chironomidae: Chironominae), with description of a new species from South China. Zootaxa 4353(2): 339-346.

Tang, H., Niitsuma, H. (2017) Review of the Japanese Microtendipes (Diptera: Chironomidae: Chironominae), with description of a new species. Zootaxa 4320(3): 535-553.

Trivinho-Strixino, S., Shimabukuro, E. M. (2017) Tanytarsini (Diptera: Chironomidae) from madicolous habitat in southeast Brazil: new species and new records. Zootaxa 4269(3): 427-437.

Vallenduuk, H. J. (2017) Chironomini larvae of western European lowlands (Diptera: Chironomidae). Keys with notes to the species. With a redescription of Glyptotendipes (Caulochironomus) nagorskayae and a first description of Glyptotendipes (Caulochironomus) kaluginae new species. Lauterbornia 82: 1-216. [with contributions from Natalya Durnova (Glyptotendipes), Hans Hop (Microtendipes and Parachironomus), and David Tempelman (Polypedilum)]

Yan, Ch., Liu, T., Zhao, G., Shi, Y., Wang, X. (2017) A new species of Olecryptotendipes Zorina from China (Diptera, Chironomidae). Zootaxa 4299(2): 291-296.

Yan, Ch., Song, Ch., Liu, T., Zhao, G., Hou, Z., Cao, W., Wang, X. (2017) Two new and one newly recorded species of Polypedilum Kieffer 1912 with DNA barcodes from Oriental China (Chironomidae: Diptera). Zootaxa 4238(1): 109-118.

Zhang, R., Zhu, L., Liu, W., Qi, X., Wang, X. (2017) Two new species of the subgenus Polypedilum (s. str.) Kieffer, 1912 (Diptera: Chironomidae: Polypedilum) from China. Pan-Pacif. Ent. 93(1): 7-13.

Martin Spies

#4
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. [publd 19.xii.2018. See also Erratum (corr. to Table 1) in Zootaxa 4712(4): 600, publd 23.xii.2019]

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.

Giłka, W., Puchalski, M. (2018) Cladotanytarsus crassus, a new North American non-biting midge with a distinctive hypopygial digitus (Diptera: Chironomidae). Polish J. Ent. 87(3): 249-261.

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.

Moubayed-Breil, J., Coppa, G. (2018) Micropsectra arduinna sp.n. (Diptera: Chironomidae, Tanytarsini), a new brachypterous species inhabiting acid peat bogs located in NE-France. (Micropsectra arduinna sp.n. (Diptera: Chironomidae, Tanytarsini), novyi brakhipternyi vid iz kizlotnykh torfyanykh bolot severo-vostoka Frantsii). Evraziat. Entomol. Zh. (= Euroas. Entomol. J.) 17(4): 255-260. [in English, with Russian abstract]

Moubayed-Breil, J., Kettani, K. (2018) Description of Rheotanytarsus langtoni sp. n. from the Rif of north-western Morocco [Diptera, Chironomidae, Tanytarsini]. Ephemera 19(2): 83-94. ["2017 (2018)"]

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 52(4): 369-381. [publd 4.i.2018]

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 publd online (29.iii.2018); with pagin. in issue 53(1): 34-45 (i.2019)]

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.

Qi, X., Lin, X.-L., Ekrem, T., Beutel, R. G., Song, Ch., Orlov, I., Chen, Ch.-T., Wang, X.-H. (2018) A new surface gliding species of Chironomidae: An independent invasion of marine environments and its evolutionary implications. Zool. Scripta 48(1): 81-92 + online suppl. material. [First publd online 31.xii.2018, with issue pagin. i.2019. NOTE: Neither version meets ICZN requirements; thus, any and all NOMENCLATURE proposed as new in this paper is UNAVAILABLE/INVALID]

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.

Martin Spies

#5
2019

Andersen, T., Pinho, L. C. (2019) A new species of Fissimentum Cranston & Nolte, 1996 from the state of São Paulo, Brazil (Diptera: Chironomidae, Chironominae). Biotemas 32(4, Dec.): 45-49. [in English, with Portuguese abstract] [This online-only publication did not meet the corresponding nomenclature requirements (e.g., see ICZN 2012 in Zootaxa 3450, esp. concerning Code Article 8.5). Consequently, the species name it proposes was not made available. The same applies to names in Lipurometriocnemus proposed in the same journal by Andersen et al. (2016).]

Cranston, P. S. (2019a) Paraskusella gen. nov., a new Afro-Australian genus in the tribe Chironomini (Diptera: Chironomidae). Austral Ent. 58(2): 268-281.

Cranston, P. S. (2019b) Riethia (Kieffer 1917) (Diptera: Chironomidae) revised for the Austro-Pacific Region. Zootaxa 4646(3): 461-500. [publd 25.vii.2019]

Fusari, L. M., Dantas, G. P. S., Hamada, N., Andrade-Ouza[sic!], V., Lima, K. M., Silva, J. G. (2019) Erratum. LÍVIA MARIA FUSARI, GALILEU P.S. DANTAS, NEUSA HAMADA, VANDERLY ANDRADE-OUZA[sic!], KÁTIA M. LIMA & JANISETE G. SILVA (2018) Not endemic after all: Imparipecten Freeman, 1961 (Diptera: Chironomidae) described from the Neotropical Region . Zootaxa, 4532 (3): 396–406 .[sic!] - Zootaxa 4712(4): 600. [publd 23.xii.2019]

Lin, X.-L., Yu, H.-J., Zhang, R.-L., Wang, X.-H. (2019) Polypedilum (Cerobregma) heberti sp. n. (Diptera: Chironomidae) from Gaoligong Mountains, Yunnan, China. Zootaxa 4571(2): 255-262. [publd 26.iii.2019; for Erratum, see Lin et al. (2020)]

Liu, C., Kong, Q.-q., Li, Y.-l., Qi, X. (2019) (Study on the genus Paratendipes, Kieffer from Zhejiang province). Hubei agric. Scis 58(14): 62-64. [publd "July" 2019; in Chinese, with English abstract]

Mukherjee, T., Pal, G., Hazra, N. (2019) On a new species of the genus Dicrotendipes Kieffer, 1913 from West Bengal, India with cladistic analysis and key to the Oriental species (Diptera: Chironomidae). Oriental Insects 54(2): 216-240. [first publd online 28.v.2019, with issue pagin. 2.iv.2020]

Pinho, L. C., Dantas, G. P. S., Hamada, N. (2019) Some notes on taxonomy and distribution of Neotropical Aedokritus Roback and Axarus Roback (Diptera: Chironomidae: Chironominae). Zootaxa 4668(4): 535-542. [publd 12.ix.2019]

Shimabukuro, E. M., Trivinho-Strixino, S., Lamas, C. J. E. (2019) New Polypedilum Kieffer (Diptera: Chironomidae) from mountains of the Atlantic Forest, Brazil. Zootaxa 4612(4): 518-532. [publd 31.v.2019]

Tang, H., Cranston, P. S. (2019) A new tribe in the Chironominae (Diptera: Chironomidae) validated by first immature stages of Xiaomyia Sæther & Wang and a phylogenetic review. Raffles Bull. Zool. 67: 684-693. [publd 4.xii.2019]

Martin Spies

#6
2020

Baranov, V., Pinho, L. C., Roszkowska, M., Kaczmarek, L. (2020) New records of Polypedilum Kieffer, 1912 from Ecuador, with description of a new species (Diptera, Chironomidae). Spixiana 43(1): 127-136. [publd 10.xi.2020]

Belyanina, S. I., Filinkova, T. N. (2020) Morfologiya lichinki i kariotip Chironomus tschubarevae sp. n. (Diptera, Chironomidae) s poluostrova Yamal, Severnyi Ledovityi okean. (Larval morphology and kariotype[sic!] of Chironomus tschubarevae sp. n. (Chironomidae, Diptera) from the Yamal Peninsula, Arctic Ocean). Zool. Zh. 99(12): 1411-1414. [in Russian, with English abstract]

Cranston, P. S. (2020) Life histories of Paucispinigera Freeman, Paraborniella Freeman and Paratendipes Kieffer (Diptera: Chironomidae) with phylogenetic considerations. Zootaxa 4853(4): 527-547. [publd 24.ix.2020]

Dantas, G. P. S., Araujo, A. A. H., Hamada, N. (2020) A new species of Rheotanytarsus Thienemann & Bause (Diptera: Chironomidae) from Peruvian Andes, with updated key to South American species. Zootaxa 4722(2): 195-200. [publd 13.i.2020]

Han, W., Wei, J., Lin, X., Tang, H. (2020) The Afro–Oriental genus Yaeprimus Sasa et Suzuki (Diptera: Chironomidae: Chironomini): Phylogeny, new species and expanded diagnoses. Diversity 12(1, paper 31): 1-19. [publd 15.i.2020]

Konar, S., Majumdar, U. (2020) Two new species of the genus Glyptotendipes Kieffer (Diptera: Chironomidae: Chironominae) from West Bengal India. Oriental Insects 55(3): 386-399. [publd online 8.xi.2020, with issue pagin. 3.vii.2021]

Lin, X.-L., Yu, H.-J., Zhang, R.-L., Wang, X.-H. (2020) XIAO-LONG LIN, HAI-JUN YU, RUI-LEI ZHANG & XIN-HUA WANG (2019) Polypedilum (Cerobregma) heberti sp. n. (Diptera: Chironomidae) from Gaoligong Mountains, Yunnan, China. Zootaxa, 4571: 255–262. Zootaxa 4852(4): 500. [publd 17.ix.2020]

Moubayed-Breil, J. (2020) Polypedilum (Uresipedilum) bernardae sp. nov. and P. (Ur.) claudei sp. nov., two new species from eastern France [Diptera, Chironomidae]. Ephemera 21(2): 83-95. [CAUTION! Based on the information given in the paper, and on purported type material deposited at the ZSM - not least on the male hypopygia and antennae with 11 flagellomeres - it is beyond any reasonable doubt that the species do not belong to Polypedilum but to 'Einfeldia sensu lato'. Within the latter old grouping, which includes members of several current genus-level taxa (e.g. Benthalia, Chironomus (Lobochironomus), Einfeldia s. str.), the proposed species names are quite likely to end up as nothing but junior synonyms. The same applies to two names proposed for similar species in Moubayed-Breil & Langton (2020) and Moubayed & Langton (2022), respectively.]

Moubayed-Breil, J., Langton, P. (2020) Polypedilum (Uresipedilum) tissoti sp. n., a new species occurring in alkaline peat bogs and wet sedge meadows in north eastern France [Diptera, Chironomidae, Chironominae]. Ephemera 21(1): 1-10. [CAUTION! Based on the information given in the paper, and on purported type material deposited at the ZSM - not least on the male hypopygium and the antenna with 11 flagellomeres - it is beyond any reasonable doubt that the species does not belong to Polypedilum but to 'Einfeldia sensu lato'. Within the latter old grouping, which includes members of several current genus-level taxa (e.g. Benthalia, Chironomus (Lobochironomus), Einfeldia s. str.), the proposed species name is quite likely to end up as nothing but a junior synonym. The same applies to three similar species proposed in Moubayed-Breil (2020) and Moubayed & Langton (2022), respectively.

Mukherjee, B., Mukherjee, T., Hazra, N. (2020) A new species of the genus Cryptotendipes Beck et Beck, 1969 (Diptera: Chironomidae) from India, with a world key to the males and tentative phylogenetic relationship. Zootaxa 4896(2): 201-223. [publd 21.xii.2020]

Mukherjee, T., Mukherjee, B., Hazra, N. (2020) Revision of the Oriental species of Polypedilum Kieffer (Diptera: Chironomidae) with their phylogenetic relationship. Zootaxa 4820(1): 31-69. [publd 27.vii.2020]

Pinho, L. C., Silva, F. L. da (2020) Description of two new species of Polypedilum (Asheum) and immature stages of Polypedilum (A.) curticaudatum (Diptera: Chironomidae). Zootaxa 4759(2): 179-190. [publd 2.iv.2020]

Qi, X., Song, Ch., Ge, K., Wang, X. (2020) Polypedilum (Cerobregma) paracyclus sp. n., a new species from Oriental China (Diptera: Chironomidae). Zootaxa 4881(1): 189-195. [publd 18.xi.2020]

Song, Ch., Andersen, T., Yan, Ch., Qi, X., Wang, X. (2020) A new species of Cryptotendipes Beck & Beck, 1969 (Diptera: Chironomidae) from Hainan Island, Oriental China. Pan-Pacific Ent. 96(4): 253-257. [publd 30.xii.2020]

Song, Ch., Wang, X., Bu, W., Qi, X. (2020) Morphology lies: a case-in-point with a new non-biting midge species from Oriental China (Diptera, Chironomidae). ZooKeys 909: 67-77. [The species name proposed as new looks to be a junior synonym of Kiefferulus nodulosus (Hashimoto in Hashimoto et al., 1981).]

Martin Spies

#7
2021

Chen, J., Zhang, R. (2021) Two new species of subgenus Tripodura Towns[sic!] (Diptera, Chironomidae, Polypedilum) from Oriental China. Zootaxa 5072(2): 191-199. [publd 29.xi.2021]]

Dantas, G. P. S., Hamada, N. (2021) Discovery of Kribiodorum Kieffer (Diptera: Chironomidae) in the Neotropical region: a new species from Brazilian Amazon rainforest. Zootaxa 5052(1): 128-136. [publd 13.x.2021]

Han, W., Liu, J., Luo, Y., Tang, H. (2021) No longer endemic to Africa: Kribiodosis Kieffer, 1921 (Diptera, Chironomidae) new to Oriental China with a phylogeny and expanded adult generic diagnoses. Zootaxa 5072(6): 560-574. [publd 3.xii.2021]

Konar, S. (2021) A new member of the Stictochironomus caffrarius group from West Bengal, India, with emendation of generic diagnosis (Diptera, Chironomidae). Zootaxa 5072(2): 173-181. [publd 29.xi.2021]]

Li, Zh., Tang, H. (2021) Two new species of Paratanytarsus Thienemann & Bause (Diptera: Chironomidae) from Oriental China. Zootaxa 3906(3): 430-438. [publd 8.i.2021]

Lin, X., Qi, X. (2021) Dicrotendipes sinicus Lin & Qi, sp. n. (Diptera: Chironomidae). CHIRONOMUS J. Chironomidae Res. 34: 21-32. [publd 19.xii.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]

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]

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]

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]

Reis, P. do R., Gil-Azevedo, L. H., Ferreira-Keppler, R. L. (2021) Two new species of Tanytarsus van der Wulp (Diptera: Chironomidae) from Costa Rica. Zootaxa 4966(1): 84-90. [publd 30.iv.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]

Tang, H., Cheng, Q., Han, W., Cranston, P. S. (2021) Integrative taxonomy: molecular phylogenetics of Polypedilum (Cerobregma) and revisited morphology of Yaethauma and Collartomyia (Diptera: Chironomidae) reveals synonymy and supports new classification. Zool. J. Linn. Soc. 194(1): 102–119 + online suppl. material. [first publd online 26.iii.2021, with issue pagin. i.2022]

Yamamoto, M., Yamamoto, N. (2021) A taxonomic note on 'Dicrotendipes formosanus (Kieffer, 1916)' from Japan (Diptera: Chironomidae). Jpn. J. syst. Ent. 27(1): 87-96. [publd 30.vi.2021]

Yamamoto, M., Yamamoto, N. (2021) Description of the immatures of Glyptotendipes (Caulochironomus) biwasecundus Sasa et Kawai, 1987 (Diptera: Chironomidae: Chironominae) from Japan. Jpn. J. syst. Ent. 27(1): 97-101. [publd 30.vi.2021]

Martin Spies

#8
2022

Bouchard, R. W. Jr, Hayford, B. L., †Ferrington L. C. Jr. (2022) Chironomus gelhausi, a new species of surface-mating Chironomus Meigen, 1803 (Diptera: Chironomidae) from Mongolia. Zootaxa 5116(1): 123-135. [publd 17.iii.2022]

Cornette, R., Motitsoe, S. N., Mlambo, M. C. (2022) A new desiccation-resistant midge from ephemeral rock pools in South Africa, Polypedilum (Pentapedilum) cranstoni sp. nov. (Diptera: Chironomidae). Zootaxa 5128(3): 397-410. [publd 21.iv.2022]

Dantas, G. P. S., Amat, E., Hamada, N., Giłka, W. (2022) Towards the systematics and diversity of Neotropical Tanytarsus van der Wulp (Diptera: Chironomidae): news from Colombia. Zootaxa 5129(4): 505-529. [publd 29.iv.2022]

Donato, M., Andersen, T. (2022) A new species of Goeldichironomus Fittkau, 1965 from Argentina (Chironomidae, Chironominae). Zootaxa 5092(1): 143-150. [publd 18.i.2022]

Giłka, W., Gadawski, P. (2022) Tanytarsini (Diptera: Chironomidae) collected during Polish expeditions to North Korea. Zootaxa 5214(2): 151-175. [publd 1.xii.2022]

Liu, W.-B., Yao, Y., Chang, T., Yan, Ch.-C., Lin, X.-L. (2022) Contribution to the knowledge of Rheotanytarsus pellucidus species group from China (Diptera, Chironomidae): three new and one newly recorded species. Zootaxa 5188(2): 145-156. [publd 16.ix.2022]

Majumdar Uttaran (2022) A new species of the genus Microtendipes Kieffer (Diptera, Chironomidae) from foothills of eastern Himalaya, India. Int. J. zool. Investigations 8(1): 537-541. [publd online 22.v.2022]

Mukherjee, B., Hazra, N. (2022) First records of three genera, Cyphomella Sæther, 1977, Olecryptotendipes Zorina, 2007 and Robackia Sæther, 1977 of the Harnischia complex from India with description of O. extentus sp. n., O. obtunsus sp. n. and R. aequilongia sp. n. (Diptera: Chironomidae). Zootaxa 5091(2): 330-340. [publd 13.i.2022]

Mukherjee, B., Hazra, N. (2022) Two new species of Demicryptochironomus Lenz, 1941 from India with tentative phylogenetic relationship and a revised world key to known males (Diptera: Chironomidae). Zootaxa 5175(1): 88-100. [publd 15.viii.2022]

Moubayed, J., Langton, P. (2022) Polypedilum (Uresipedilum) alixae sp.n., a new species inhabiting acid peat bogs in north eastern France (Diptera, Chironomidae, Chironominae). Evraziat. Entomol. Zh. (= Euroas. Entomol. J.) 21(1): 68-72. [in English, with Russian abstract] [CAUTION! All information given in the paper - not least the male antenna with 11 flagellomeres, and the hypopygium - suggests beyond any reasonable doubt that the species does not belong to Polypedilum but to 'Einfeldia sensu lato'. Within the latter old grouping, which includes members of several current genus-level taxa (e.g. Benthalia, Chironomus (Lobochironomus), Einfeldia s. str.), the proposed species name is quite likely to end up as nothing but a junior synonym. The same applies to three names proposed for similar species in Moubayed-Breil (2020) and Moubayed-Breil & Langton (2020), respectively.]

Orel, O. V. (2022) Additional data on Olecryptotendipes secundus (Zorina, 2003) from Russian Far East, with a description of preimaginal stages (Diptera: Chironomidae). Zootaxa 5205(1): 87-96. [publd 4.xi.2022]

Reis, P. do R., Lin, X.-L., Ferreira-Keppler, R. L. (2022) Three new species of Tanytarsus van der Wulp (Diptera: Chironomidae) from the Amazon rainforest. Zootaxa 5194(3): 426-434. [publd 6.x.2022]

Qi, X., Yao, Y., Liu, W.-B., Yan, Ch.-C., Wang, X.-H., Lin, X.-L. (2022) Review of the Rheotanytarsus muscicola species group from China (Diptera: Chironomidae). Diversity [Basle] 14(5, paper 383): 16 pp. [publd online 12.v.2022]

Song, Ch., Zhu, B.-Q., Moubayed-Breil, J., Lei, T., Qi, X. (2022) Taxonomic study on the genus Stenochironomus Kieffer from the Baishanzu Nature Reserve, China (Diptera, Chironomidae). ZooKeys 1104: 93-113. [publd 9.vi.2022]

Yamamoto, M., Yamamoto, N. (2022) A new species of the genus Cladopelma Kieffer from Japan (Diptera, Chironomidae). Evraziat. Entomol. Zh. (= Euroas. Entomol. J.) 21(1): 42-47. [in English with Russian abstract, etc.]

Yao, Y., Liu, W.-B., Wang, X.-H., Lin, X.-L. (2022) Rheotanytarsus baihualingensis and R. diaoluoensis (Diptera : Chironomidae), two new species from Oriental China. Annls zool. fenn. 59: 149-154. [publd online 15.iii.2022]

Martin Spies

#9
2023

Andersen, T. (2023) A new, darkwinged species of Pseudochironomus Malloch, 1915 (Diptera: Chironomidae) from Mexico and Costa Rica. Aquatic Insects: 10 pp. [publd online 24.viii.2023]

Andersen, T., Höcherl, A., Hübner, J., Chimeno, C., Lin, X., Baranov, V. (2023) New species and records of Pseudochironomini Sæther, 1977 (Diptera, Chironomidae) from the Dominican Republic. Biodiv. Data J. 11(e111925): 10 pp. [publd 24.x.2023]

Andersen, T., Sanz-laParra, A. M. (2023) A new species of Riethia Kieffer, 1917 from Zurqui, Costa Rica (Chironomidae, Chironominae, Pseudochironomini). Norw. J. Ent. 70(1): 29-33. [publd 22.vi.2023]

Dantas, G. P. S., Hamada, N., Giłka, W. (2023) Tanytarsus van der Wulp (Chironomidae, Diptera): new species from the western Amazon region in Peru and Brazil, new records from the Neotropics, and remarks on the taxonomy of the genus. Zootaxa 5271(1): 115-139. [publd 24.iv.2023]

Guo, B.-X., Chen, M.-H., Zhang, R.-L., Lin, X.-L. (2023) Tanytarsus xinglongensis (Diptera, Chironomidae, Tanytarsini), a new species from Oriental China. Annls zool. fenn. 60(1): 53-56. [publd 23.ii.2023]

Liu, W.-B., Wang, Y., Zhao, K.-Zh., Wang, Ch.-Y., Zhang, J.-Y., Yan, Ch.-C, Lin, X.-L. (2023) New species, a new combination, and DNA barcodes of Parachironomus Lenz, 1921 (Diptera, Chironomidae). Zootaxa 5256(2): 121-140. [publd 16.iii.2023]

Moubayed, J., Mary, N. (2023f) On the genus Polypedilum, subgenus Pentapedilum Kieffer, 1912 from New Caledonia. I. Description of three new species occurring in the littoral ecosystem [Diptera, Chironomidae, Chironomini]. Ephemera 24(2): 121-136.

Mukherjee, B., Hazra, N. (2023) Taxonomic studies on Harnischia complex from India (Diptera: Chironomidae). Zootaxa 5278(2): 239-263. [publd 5.v.2023]

Mukherjee, B., Hui, P., Hazra, N. (2023) Two new species of the genus Paracladopelma Harnisch of Harnischia complex from India (Diptera: Chironomidae). Oriental Insects: 13 pp. [publd online 5.ii.2023]

Namayandeh, A., Hudson, P. L., Ghaderi, E., Stott, W. (2023) Zavrelia parapentatoma (Chironomidae: Diptera), a curious new species from North America, revealed by molecular methods. Zootaxa 5249(1): 111-124. [publd 28.ii.2023]

Orel, O. V. (2023) Stempellinella Brundin, 1947 (Diptera: Chironomidae) from eastern Siberia and the Russian Far East, with the description of new species. Zootaxa 5380(4): 341-360. [publd 1.xii.2023]

Pinho, L. C., Fusari, L. M. (2023) New species of Claudiotendipes Andersen, Mendes & Pinho and Tapajos Trivinho-Strixino, Silva & Oliveira from Brazil (Diptera, Chironomidae, Chironominae). Revta bras. Ent. 67(núm. espec., paper e20230067): 5 pp. [publd online 27.xi.2023]

Song, Ch., Wang, L., Lei, T., Qi, X. (2023) New color-patterned species of Microtendipes Kieffer, 1913 (Diptera: Chironomidae) and a deep intraspecific divergence of species by DNA barcodes. Insects [Basle] 14(3, paper 227): 27 pp. + online suppl. material. [publd online 24.ii.2023]

Martin Spies

2023

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]

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