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Issue: Vol. 5141 No. 4: 27 May 2022
Type: Article
Published: 2022-05-27
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5141.4.5
Page range: 373-384
Abstract views: 319
PDF downloaded: 14

Chironomids are commensals of the larvae and pupae of Blephariceridae and Simuliidae from the North Caucasus (Diptera: Chironomidae: Orthocladiinae)

Federal Scientific Center of the East Asia Terrestrial Biodiversity, Far East Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, 100 let Vladivostoku 159, 690022 Vladivostok, Russia
Laboratory of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology of Aquatic Organisms, Far Eastern Federal University, Suhanova St. 8, 690950 Vladivostok, Russia.
A.N. Severtsov Institute of Ecology and Evolution of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Leninskij prosp. 33, 119071 Moscow, Russia
Diptera Chironomidae Cardiocladius Eukiefferiella commensals DNA barcoding North Caucasus

Abstract

Illustrated morphological descriptions of chironomid larvae from subfamily Orthocladiinae Cardiocladius sp. 1, which as commensals live between ventral suckers of Blephariceridae larvae, as well as larvae and pupae of Eukiefferiella claripennis group inhabited of Simuliidae pupal cocoons, are given. DNA barcodes of these chironomid species and sequences of their hosts, three species of Liponeura Loew (Blephariceridae) and one species of Simulium aff. variegatum (Simuliidae), are provided.

 

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