Orthocladiinae - new taxa

[Martin Spies]

2014 and earlier

Andersen, T. (2014) Molleriella kaputu n. sp. from the West Usambara Mountains, NE Tanzania (Diptera: Chironomidae). Chironomus Newsl. Chironomidae Res. 27: 8-15.

Andersen, T., Pinho, L. C. (2014) A new Thalassosmittia Strenzke and Remmert, 1957 out of the sea: T. amazonica n. sp. from the Amazon rainforest, Brazil (Diptera: Chironomidae, Orthocladiinae). Chironomus Newsl. Chironomidae Res. 27: 25-30.

Andersen, T., Pinho, L. C. (2014) A new species of Saetherocryptus Andersen & Mendes, 2007 (Diptera, Chironomidae, Orthocladiinae) from the Amazon rainforest, Brazil. Norw. J. Entomol. 61(2): 160-164.

Boggero, A., Zaupa, S., Rossaro, B. 2014. Pseudosmittia fabioi sp. n., a new species from Sardinia (Diptera: Chironomidae, Orthocladiinae). Journal of Entomological and Acarological Research 46(1), 1892: 5 pp.

Donato, M., Mauad, M., Fuentes, M. C. (2015) A new species of Parapsectrocladius Cranston (Diptera: Chironomidae: Orthocladiinae) from Patagonia, Argentina. Zootaxa 3911(4): 547-559.

Fang, X., Wang, X., Fu, Y. 2014. A new species of Corynoneura Winnertz from Oriental China (Diptera: Chironomidae: Orthocladiinae). Zootaxa 3884(6): 567-572.

Li, X., Wang. X. 2014. New species and records of Metriocnemus van der Wulp s. str. from China (Diptera, Chironomidae). ZooKeys 387: 73-87.

Liu, W., Lin, X., Wang, X. 2014. A review of Rheocricotopus (Psilocricotopus) chalybeatus species group from China, with the description of three new species (Diptera, Chironomidae). ZooKeys 388: 17-34.

Liu, W., Song, Ch., Wang, X. 2014. Review of the subgenus Rheocricotopus (s. str.) Brundin, 1956 from China (Diptera: Chironomidae). Pan-Pacific Entomol. 90(2): 100-106.

Makarchenko, E. A., Makarchenko, M. A. 2014. [Two new species of chironomids (Diptera, Chironomidae) from Wrangel Island.] Zool. Zhurnal 93(1): 185-188. [in Russian; English version in Entomol. Rev. 94(4): 619-622. -- Species in Orthocladius (Eudactylocladius)]

Makarchenko, E. A., Makarchenko, M. A. 2014. On taxonomy of Hydrobaenus Fries, 1830 (Diptera: Chironomidae: Orthocladiinae) from the Russian Far East, with a key to species. Zootaxa 3760(3): 429-438.

Neubern de Oliveira, C. S., Silva, F. L., Trivinho-Strixino, S. 2014. Two new species of Parapentaneura (Diptera: Chironomidae: Tanypodinae) from Brazil, with keys to the males and immature stages. Stud. Neotrop. Fauna Envir. 49(1): 26-35.

Qi, X., Liu, Y., Lin, X., Wang, X. (2012) Description of a new species and a newly recorded species in the genus Eukiefferiella Thienemann, 1926 (Diptera: Chironomidae) from China. Entomotaxonomia 34(2): 307-312.

Ren, J., Lin, X. Wang, X. 2014. Review of genus Pseudorthocladius Goetghebuer, 1943 (Diptera, Chironomidae) from China. ZooKeys 387: 51-72.

Ren, J., Wang. X. (2014) A newly-recorded genus Psilometriocnemus Sæther (Diptera: Chironomidae) from the Oriental Region of China with description of a new species. Entomotaxonomia 36(3): 206-210.

[Martin Spies]

2014/2015

Makarchenko, E.A., Makarchenko, M.A. (2014) Paratrichocladius fontinalis sp.n. — novyi vid khironomid (Diptera, Chironomidae, Orthocladiinae) iz rodnikovykh klyuchei basseina r. Amur (rossiiskii Dal'nii Vostok). [Paratrichocladius fontinalis sp.n. (Diptera, Chironomidae, Orthocladiinae) from springs of Amur River basin (Russian Far East).] Evraziat. Entomol. Zh. (= Euroas. Entomol. J.) 13(3): 280-285.

NOTE that the species name proposed above was invalid and needed to be replaced, due to junior secondary homonymy with Paratrichocladius fontinalis (Sæther, 1969). The replacement has been published in:

Makarchenko, E.A., Makarchenko, M.A. (2015) A new name for Paratrichocladius fontinalis Makarchenko et Makarchenko, 2014, a secondary homonym of Syncricotopus fontinalis Sæther, 1969 (Diptera: Chironomidae). Far Eastern Entomologist 287: 23-24.

[Martin Spies]

2015

Andersen, T., Mendes, H. F., Pinho, L. C. (2015) Mariambera, a new genus of Orthocladiinae from Brazil (Insecta: Diptera, Chironomidae). Studs Neotrop. Fauna Envir. 50(1): 24-30.

Andersen, T.,  Mendes, H. F., Pinho, L. C. (2015) Urubicimbera, a new Orthocladiinae genus from Brazil (Diptera, Chironomidae). Norw. J. Ent. 62(2): 160-166.

Andersen, T., Pinho, L. C., Mendes, H. F. (2015) Caaporangombera, a new Orthocladiinae genus from Brazil (Diptera, Chironomidae). Norw. J. Ent. 62(1): 69-79.

Andersen, T., Pinho, L. C., Mendes, H. F. (2015) Titimbera, a new genus of Orthocladiinae from South and Central America (Diptera: Chironomidae). Studs Neotrop. Fauna Envir. 50(2): 96-106.

Caldwell, B. A., Jacobsen, R. E. (2015) A new species of Smittia Holmgren, 1869 (Diptera: Chironomidae) from Georgia, USA. Europ. J. Envir. Scis 5(1): 12-14.

Cranston, P. S., Krosch, M. N. (2015) DNA sequences and austral taxa indicate generic synonymy of Paratrichocladius Santos-Abreu with Cricotopus Wulp (Diptera: Chironomidae). Syst. Entomol. 40(4): 719-732. [First nomenclaturally valid publication online on 21 May 2015, including 2 suppl. files; doi: 10.1111/syen.12130]

Cranston, P. S., Krosch, M. N. (2015) Nomenclatural corrections to Australian species of Cricotopus (Wulp) (Diptera; Chironomidae). Zootaxa 3980(2): 298-300.

Drayson, N., Cranston, P. S., Krosch, M. N. (2015) Taxonomic review of the chironomid genus Cricotopus v.d. Wulp (Diptera: Chironomidae) from Australia: keys to males, females, pupae and larvae, description of ten new species and comments on Paratrichocladius Santos Abreu. Zootaxa 3919(1): 001-040.

Fu, Y., Fang, X., Lei, H., Wang, X. (2015) The genus Paratrichocladius Santos Abreu (Diptera: Chironomidae) with a newly recorded species from China. Entomotaxonomia 37(2): 145-152.

Inoue, Y., Komori, C., Kobayashi, T., Kondo, N., Ueno, R., Takamura, K. (2015) Nanocladius (Plecopteracoluthus) shigaensis sp. nov. (Chironomidae: Orthocladiinae) whose larvae are phoretic on nymphs of stoneflies (Plecoptera) from Japan. Zootaxa 3931(4): 551-567.

Krasheninnikov, A. B., Orel, O. V., Loskutova, O. A. (2015) (New data on chironomid fauna (Diptera, Chironomidae) of the Pay-Khoy ridge and the Polar Urals, Russia.) Evraziat. Entomol. Zh. (= Euroas. Entomol. J.) 14(5): 416-428. [in English, with Russian abstract]

Langton, P. H. (2015) Metriocnemus ephemerus sp. nov. (Diptera, Chironomidae) from Northern Ireland. Dipterists Digest, Sec. Ser. 22(1): 35-42.

Langton, P. H., Armitage, P. D. (2015) Metriocnemus albipunctatus sp. nov. (Diptera, Chironomidae) from England. Dipterists Digest, Sec. Ser. 22(1): 5-10.

Langton, P. H., Armitage, P. D. (2015) Chaetocladius purbeckensis sp. nov.: "Chaetocladius sp. Dorset" Langton and Armitage, 2010 (Diptera, Chironomidae) named. Dipterists Digest, Sec. Ser. 22(1): 13-15.[/color]

Liu, W., Ren, J., Wang, X. (2015) Apometriocnemus Saether (Diptera: Chironomidae): a newly recorded genus from Oriental China with description of a new species. Entomotaxonomia 37(2): 134-138.

Liu, W., Sun, B., Yan, C., Song, C., Wang, X. (2015) Two new species and one new record of Parakiefferiella Thienemann, 1936 from China (Diptera, Chironomidae). ZooKeys 545: 139-148.

Makarchenko, E. A., Makarchenko, M. A. (2015) Review of the genus Abiskomyia Edwards (Diptera: Chironomidae: Orthocladiinae), with description of new taxa from the Russian Far East and bordering territories. Zootaxa 3919(1): 041-060.

Makarchenko, E. A., Makarchenko, M. A. (2015) A review of the genus Parorthocladius Thienemann, 1935 (Diptera: Chironomidae: Orthocladiinae) from the Russian Far East. Zootaxa 3974(3): 413-423.

Makarchenko, E. A., Makarchenko, M. A., Semenchenko, A. A. (2015) Morphological description and DNA barcoding of Hydrobaenus majus sp. nov. (Diptera: Chironomidae: Orthocladiinae) from the Russian Far East. Zootaxa 4000(2): 287-293.

Makarchenko, E. A., Makarchenko, M. A., Semenchenko, A. A. (2015) Morphological description and DNA barcoding of Paralimnophyes dolgikh sp.n. (Diptera, Chironomidae, Orthocladiinae) from the Bolshekhehtsyrsky Nature Reserve (Khabarovsk Territory, Russian Far East). Evraziat. Entomol. Zh. (= Euroas. Entomol. J.) 14(4): 392-396.

Makarchenko, E. A., Makarchenko, M. A., Tiunova, T. M. (2015) A new species of Symbiocladius Kieffer, 1925 (Diptera: Chironomidae: Orthocladiinae) from the eastern Palaearctic. Europ. J. Envir. Scis 5(1): 45-50.

Moubayed-Breil, J. (2015) Corynoneura tyrrhena sp. n., a crenophilous species occurring in high mountain streams of Corsica [Diptera, Chironomidae, Orthocladiinae]. Ephemera 16(1): 1-12. ["2014"]

Moubayed-Breil, J., Ashe, P. (2015) Trissocladius orsinii sp. n., a Tyrrhenian species inhabiting high mountain helocrenes and streams in Corsica and the eastern Pyrenees [Diptera, Chironomidae, Orthocladiinae]. Ephemera 15(1): 17-30. ["2013"]

Moubayed-Breil, J., Ashe, P. (2015) Eukiefferiella brulini sp. n., a commensal species on Ancylus fluviatilis Müller, occurring in the Mediterranean coastal ecosystem of continental France [Diptera, Chironomidae, Orthocladiinae]. Ephemera 15(2): 79-92. ["2013"]

Pinho, L. C., Andersen, T. (2015) Limnophyes guarani sp. n., a new hygropetric Orthocladiinae from southern Brazil (Diptera: Chironomidae). Zootaxa 3948(1): 137-144.

Stur, E., Ekrem, T. (2015) A review of Norwegian Gymnometriocnemus (Diptera, Chironomidae) including the description of two new species and a new name for Gymnometriocnemus volitans (Goetghebuer) sensu Brundin. ZooKeys 508: 127-142 + online suppl. file.

Ueno. R., Satake. K., Yamano. H. (2015) New records of Chironomidae (Diptera) of Tuvalu. Int. J. Limnol. [formerly Annls Limnol.] 51(1): 71-78.

Yamamoto, M., Yamamoto, N., Kimura, M. (2015) Taxonomic notes on Chironomidae (Diptera) from Okinawa Island, Japan, with the description of three new species. Europ. J. Envir. Scis 5(1): 101-115.   [new species in Ionthosmittia, Orthocladius, Parakiefferiella]

[Martin Spies]

2016

Andersen, T. (2016) A new species of Litocladius Mendes, Andersen & Sæther, 2004 from the Amazon rainforest, Brazil (Diptera, Chironomidae, Orthocladiinae). Norw. J. Ent. 63(2): 164-168.

Andersen, T., Baranov, V., Hagenlund, L. K., Ivkovic, M., Kvifte, G. M., Pavlek, M. (2016) Blind flight? A new troglobiotic orthoclad (Diptera, Chironomidae) from the Lukina Jama – Trojama Cave in Croatia. PLoS ONE 11(4): e0152884, 15 pp. + 5 files Supp. Inf.; doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0152884

Andersen, T., Pinho, L. C., Mendes, H. F. (2016) Two new species of Lipurometriocnemus Sæther from Brazil (Diptera: Chironomidae, Orthocladiinae). Biotemas 29(1): 37-45.

Langton, P. H. (2016) Corrections to: Langton, P.H. 2015. Metriocnemus ephemerus sp. nov. (Diptera, Chironomidae) from Northern Ireland. Dipterists Digest (Second Series) 22, 35-42. Dipterists Digest, Sec. Ser. 22(2): 213-216. ["2015"]

Makarchenko, E. A., Makarchenko, M. A. (2016) Obzor komarov-zvontsov roda Vivacricotopus Schnell et Sæther, 1988 (Diptera, Chironomidae, Orthocladiinae) s opisaniem novogo vida V. nikolaii sp.n. c rossiiskogo Dal'nego Vostoka. (Review of the genus Vivacricotopus Schnell et Sæther, 1988 (Diptera, Chironomidae, Orthocladiinae), with a description of V. nikolaii sp.n. from the Russian Far East.) Evraziat. Entomol. Zh. (= Euroas. Entomol. J.) 15(1): 78-88. [in Russian, with English abstract]

Makarchenko, E. A., Makarchenko, M. A. (2016) Dva novykh vida khironomid roda Cricotopus (s. str.) gruppy tremulus (Diptera: Chironomidae: Orthocladiinae) s Rossiiskogo Dal'nego Vostoka. (Two new species of Cricotopus (s. str.) tremulus group (Diptera: Chironomidae: Orthocladiinae) from the Russian Far East.). Evraziat. Entomol. Zh. (= Euroas. Entomol. J.) 15, Suppl. 1: 94-102. [in Russian, with English abstract]

Makarchenko, E. A., Makarchenko, M. A., Niitsuma, H. (2016) Chironomids of subfamilies Tanypodinae, Diamesinae and Orthocladiinae (Diptera: Chironomidae) from North Korea. Far Eastern Ent. 325: 1-12.

Moubayed-Breil, J. (2016) Rheocricotopus (Psilocricotopus) meridionalis sp. n. and R. (Psc.) thomasi sp. n., two crenophilous species inhabiting cold helocrenes and streams in the Mediterranean Region [Diptera, Chironomidae, Orthocladiinae]. Ephemera 16(2): 71-91. ["2014"]

Moubayed-Breil, J. (2016) On the genus Cricotopus v. d. Wulp, 1874 (tremulus-group) from continental France and Corsica with description of C. mantetanus sp. n. and C. royanus sp. n. [Diptera, Chironomidae, Orthocladiinae]. Ephemera 17(2): 71-104. ["2015"]

Moubayed-Breil, J., Ashe, P. (2016) Thienemannia spiesi sp. nov., a crenophilous species from the Schapbach Quelle, Bavaria, Germany (Diptera: Chironomidae: Orthocladiinae). Europ. J. Envir. Scis 6(1): 64-68.

Moubayed-Breil, J., Lods-Crozet, B. (2016) Heleniella helvetica sp. n., a cold stenothermic species inhabiting the upper Rhône catchment in central Switzerland [Diptera, Chironomidae, Orthocladiinae]. J. ent. acarol. Res. 48(3): 339-344.

Wiedenbrug, S., Silva, F. L. (2016) Diplosmittia caribensis, a new Orthocladiinae (Diptera: Chironomidae) from the Dominican Republic. Zootaxa 4103(1): 71-74.

Yavorskaya, N. M., Orel, O. V., Makarchenko, M. A., Makarchenko, E. A. (2016) Fauna komarov-zvontsov (Diptera, Chironomidae) prirodnogo zapovednika «Bolon'skii» (Khabarovskii krai). (The chironomid fauna (Diptera, Chironomidae) of the Bolonsky Nature Reserve (Khabarovsk Territory).) Evraziat. Entomol. Zh. (= Euroas. Entomol. J.) 15(3): 201-210. [in Russian, with English abstract]

Zhang, R., Liu, W., Ferrington, L. C. Jr, Wang, X. (2016) Two new species of genus Hydrosmittia Ferrington & Sæther (Diptera: Chironomidae) from China. Zootaxa 4121(2): 167-174.

[Martin Spies]

2017

Andersen, T., Hagenlund, L. K. (2017) Two new species of Antillocladius Sæther, 1981 from the Amazon rainforest, Brazil (Diptera, Chironomidae, Orthocladiinae). Norw. J. Entomology 64(2): 65-71.

Andersen, T., Hagenlund, L. K., Pinho, L. C. (2017) New species and records of Neotropical Cardiocladius Kieffer, 1912 (Diptera: Chironomidae, Orthocladiinae). Aquatic Insects 37(4): 273–286. [first publ. online (9.ii.2017), DOI: 10.1080/01650424.2016.1253850, is valid for nomenclatural purposes]

Chen, Sh., Zhang, R., Ferrington, L. C., Jr. (2017) Two new species and one new record of the genus Metriocnemus van der Wulp (Diptera: Chironomidae: Orthocladiinae) from Mongolia. Zootaxa 4312(3): 557-564.

Makarchenko, E. A., Makarchenko, M. A. (2017) A new species of the genus Tokunagaia Sæther, 1973 (Diptera: Chironomidae: Orthocladiinae) from the Russian Far East. Far east. Ent. 343: 19-24. [in English, with Russian abstract]

Makarchenko, E. A., Makarchenko, M. A., Semenchenko, A. A. (2017) New or little-known species of Chaetocladius s. str. Kieffer, 1911 (Diptera: Chironomidae: Orthocladiinae) from the Amur River basin (Russian Far East). Zootaxa 4247(3): 313-330.

Makarchenko, E. A., Makarchenko, M. A., Semenchenko, A. A., Veliaev, O. A. (2017) Morphological description and DNA barcoding of Hydrobaenus golovinensis sp. nov. (Diptera: Chironomidae: Orthocladiinae) from the Russian Far East. Zootaxa 4286(2): 277-284.

Moubayed-Breil, J. (2017) On the genus Chaetocladius (Chaetocladius) Kieffer, 1911 (laminatus-group). I. Taxonomic notes with description of C. guisseti sp.n. (Diptera, Chironomidae, Orthocladiinae) from glacial springs and streams in eastern Pyrenees.  Evraziat. Entomol. Zh. (= Euroas. Entomol. J.) 16(5): 487-500. [in English, with Russian abstract]

Moubayed-Breil, J., Dia, A. (2017) Chaetocladius coppai sp. nov. and C. diai sp. nov., two mountain species inhabiting glacial springs and cold streams of the Alps and Lebanon (Diptera: Chironomidae, Orthocladiinae). (Chaetocladius coppai sp. nov. i C. diai sp. nov., dva gornykh vida iz lednikovykh rodnikov i kholodnykh ruch'ev Al'p i Libana (Diptera: Chironomidae, Orthocladiinae).) Zoosyst. Ross. 26(2): 369-380. [in English, with Russian abstract]

Rossaro, B., Magoga, G., Montagna, M. (2017) Revision of the genus Chaetocladius Kieffer (Diptera, Chironomidae), 1st note: description of four new species from Italy. J. ent. acarol. Res. 49(1): 36-47.

Yamamoto, M., Yamamoto, N. (2017) A new species of the genus Rheocricotopus Brundin from Japan (Diptera: Chironomidae: Orthocladiinae). Jap. J. syst. Ent. 23(1): 75-79.

[Martin Spies]

2018

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., 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., 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., 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]

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)]