Chironomus Meigen, 1803

Mendes, Humberto Fonseca & Pinho, Luiz Carlos, 2016, FAMILY CHIRONOMIDAE, Zootaxa 4122 (1), pp. 142-153 : 145

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Genus Chironomus Meigen View in CoL

Chironomus Meigen, 1803: 260 View in CoL . Type species, Tipula plumosa Linnaeus (subs. des. Latreille 1810: 42). Refs.: Ashe, 1983: 16 for synonyms; Reiss, 1974b: 4 (desc. Amazonian species); Trivinho-Strixino & Strixino, 1981: 333 (new spec.); Spies & Reiss, 1996: 69 (cat.); Correia et al., 2005: 30 (new spec.); Correia et al., 2006: 58 (new spec.); Correia & Trivinho-Strixino, 2007: 54 (new spec.).

References

Ashe, P. (1983) A catalogue of chironomid genera and subgenera of the world including synonyms (Diptera: Chironomidae). Entomologica Scandinavica Supplement, 20, 1 - 68.

Correia, L. C. S., Trivinho-Strixino, S. & Michailova, P. (2005) A new species of Chironomus Meigen, 1803 (Diptera, Chironomidae) from the southeast of Brazil. Studies on Neotropical Fauna and Environment, 40, 29 - 38. http: // dx. doi. org / 10.1080 / 01650520500040645

Correia, L. C. S., Trivinho-Strixino, S. & Michailova, P. (2006) A new species of Chironomus Meigen (Diptera: Chironomidae: Chironominae) from polluted streams of southeastern Brazil. Zootaxa, 1130, 57 - 68.

Correia, L. C. S. & Trivinho-Strixino, S. (2007) New species of Chironomus Meigen (Diptera: Chironomidae: Chironominae) from Brazil. Zootaxa, 1504, 53 - 68.

Latreille, P. A. (1810) Considerations generales sur l'ordre naturel des animaux composant les classes des Crustaces, des Arachnides et des Insectes; avec um tableau methodique de leurs genres, disposes em familles. F. Schoell, Paris, 444 pp.

Reiss, F. (1974 b) Vier neue Chironomus - Arten (Chironomidae, Diptera) und ihre okologische Bedeutung fur die Benthosfauna zentralamazonischer Seen und Uberschwemmungswalder. Amazoniana, 5, 3 - 23.

Spies, M. & Reiss, F. (1996) Catalog and bibliography of Neotropical and Mexican Chironomidae (Insecta, Diptera). Spixiana Supplement, 22, 61 - 119.

Trivinho-Strixino, S. & Strixino, G. (1981) Nova especie do genero Chironomus Meigen do sul do Brasil (Diptera: Chironomidae). Revista Brasileira de Entomologia, 25, 333 - 340.