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Issue: Vol. 3599 No. 6: 10 Jan. 2013
Type: Articles
Published: 2013-01-10
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3599.6.5
Page range: 564–576
Abstract views: 36
PDF downloaded: 2

Chironomus polonicus sp. n. (Diptera: Chironomidae) from southern Poland

Institute of Biodiversity and Ecosystem Research, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, 1 Tzar Osvoboditel boulv., 1000 Sofia, Bulgaria
Institute of Nature Conservation, Polish Academy of Sciences, al. A. Mickiewicza 33, 31–120 Krakow, Poland
University Museum of Zoology, Downing Street, Cambridge, UK (Address for correspondence: 16 Irish Society Court, Coleraine, N. Ireland BT52 IGX)
Diptera Chironomus polonicus new species polytene chromosomes morphology southern Poland

Abstract

The paper describes larval, pupal and adult morphology as well as the karyotype of Chironomus polonicus sp. n. from southern Poland. The material has been obtained from reared egg masses collected in Bolesław pool, near Kraków. The species belongs to the pseudothummi cytocomplex with 2n = 8 and chromosome arm combinations AE, BF, CD, G. Several homozygous inversions distinguish arm A of the new species from that of C. pseudothummi Strenzke. Arm F is similar to that of C. aprilinus Meigen and differs from it by few steps of homozygous inversions. Few morphological differences in the pupa and adult are also presented.

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