Orthocladius (Orthocladius) dentifer Brundin, 1947

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

Orthocladius (Orthocladius) dentifer Brundin, 1947

Materials

Type status: Other material. Occurrence: recordedBy: M. N.; individualCount: 2; lifeStage: pupal exuviae; occurrenceID: BDJ_13073_7; Location: country: Ukraine; locality: Svydovets, lake Geryshaska ; verbatimElevation: 1584; Event: eventDate: 26-06-19 Type status: Other material. Occurrence: recordedBy: M. N.; individualCount: 16; lifeStage: pupal exuviae; occurrenceID: BDJ_13073_8; Location: country: Ukraine; locality: Svydovets, lake Vorozheska 1 ; verbatimElevation: 1480; Event: eventDate: 26-06-19 Type status: Other material. Occurrence: recordedBy: M. N.; individualCount: 76; lifeStage: pupal exuviae; occurrenceID: BDJ_13073_9; Location: country: Ukraine; locality: Svydovets, lake Vorozheska 2 ; verbatimElevation: 1477; Event: eventDate: 26-06-19 Type status: Other material. Occurrence: recordedBy: M. N.; individualCount: 3; sex: M; lifeStage: pharate adult; occurrenceID: BDJ_13073_10; Location: country: Ukraine; locality: Svydovets, lake Vorozheska 2 ; verbatimElevation: 1477; Event: eventDate: 26-06-19

Distribution

Holarctic species, known from Western and Northern Europe but not previously recorded in Central and Eastern Europe.

Notes

Larvae of Orthocladius (s. l.) are rheophilic to rheobiontic and poloxybiontic, generally confined to well-aerated flowing waters. They are recorded in the littoral of alpine lakes ( Boggero et al. 2006), mostly identified to genus/subgenus level. Orthocladius dentifer is known from lakes ( Rossaro et al. 2003) and rivers ( Murray et al. 2014), even in severely polluted conditions ( Loskutova et al. 2015).