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Issue: Vol. 5319 No. 1: 24 Jul. 2023
Type: Article
Published: 2023-07-24
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5319.1.3
Page range: 48-56
Abstract views: 273
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DNA Barcode of symbiotic chironomids: Findings in the genus Symbiocladius (Diptera: Chironomidae)

Facultad de Ciencias de la Vida y de la Salud; Perú; Universidad Científica del Sur; Lima; Perú; Laboratorio de Ecotoxicología; San Martín de Porres 15102; Peru
Engineering Research Center of Environmental DNA and Ecological Water Health Assessment; Shanghai Ocean University; Shanghai 201306; China; Shanghai Universities Key Laboratory of Marine Animal Taxonomy and Evolution; Shanghai Ocean University; Shanghai 201306; China
Programa de Doctorado en Ciencias mención Ecología y Evolución; Escuela Graduados; Facultad de Ciencias; Universidad Austral de Chile; Valdivia; Chile; Departamento de Mastozoología; Museo de Historia Natural; Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos; Lima; Peru
Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia; Facultad de Ciencias e Ingeniería; Laboratorio de Ecotoxicología; San Martín de Porres 15102; Peru
Laboratorio de Invertebrados Acuáticos; Facultad de Ciencias Biológicas; Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos; Lima; Perú
Grupo de Investigación FEHM (Freshwater Ecology Hydrology and Management); Departamento de Biología; Evolutiva; Ecología y Ciencias Ambientales; Facultad de Biología; Universidad de Barcelona; Barcelona; Spain
Diptera Commensalism parasitism COX1 taxonomy Andes

Abstract

Chironomidae of symbiotic habits have been recorded in different parts of the world, among commensals and parasites. There are different genera reported at the moment, however questions such as the origin of commensal or parasitic life, which occurred first or what are their benefits remain debatable. In order to contribute with information to elucidate the above mentioned issues, the present study reports the finding of immature stages of Symbiocladius (Acletus) wygodzinskyi Roback, 1965 in the Churup stream located in the Andes Cordillera (Peru), living on nymphs of Leptophlebiidae (Ephemeroptera). We present a morphological description of immature stages of this species and for the first time the sequence of COX1 gene S. (A.) wygodzinskyi. The genetic result also supports differences between the morphospecies of Symbiocladius (Symbiocladius) rhithrogenae Zavřel, 1924 and S. (A.) wygodzinskyi in 23%.

 

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