Cricotopus (Cricotopus) curtus Hirvenoja 1973

Bitusik, Peter, Novikmec, Milan & Hamerlik, Ladislav, 2020, Chironomids (Insecta, Diptera, Chironomidae) from alpine lakes in the Eastern Carpathians with comments on newly-recorded species from Ukraine, Biodiversity Data Journal 8, pp. 49378-49378 : 49378

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https://dx.doi.org/10.3897/BDJ.8.e49378

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scientific name

Cricotopus (Cricotopus) curtus Hirvenoja 1973
status

 

Cricotopus (Cricotopus) curtus Hirvenoja 1973

Materials

Type status: Other material. Occurrence: recordedBy: M. N; individualCount: 1; lifeStage: pupal exuviae; occurrenceID: BDJ_13073_4; Location: country: Ukraine; locality: Svydovets, lake Vorozheska 1 ; verbatimElevation: 1480; Event: eventDate: 26-06-19

Distribution

Holarctic species recorded in most countries in Western and Central Europe. Major gaps in distribution include the Balkans and a belt from Scandinavia to South-European Russia.

Notes

A common rheophilic and polyoxybiontic species. Pupal exuviae could originate both from the inlet and the littoral of the lake, as slow-flow conditions are present along the lake shores.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Diptera

Family

Chironomidae

Genus

Cricotopus