Affiliation:
1. I.I. Schmalhausen Institute of Zoology, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, 15 B. Khmelnytskogo, 01601 Kiev, Ukraine; Leibniz Institute for Freshwater Ecology and Inland Fisheries, Müggelseedamm 310, 12587 Berlin, Germany
2. Zoological Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences, 1 Universitetskaya Emb., St Petersburg 199034, Russia
Abstract
Seven species of Chironomidae (Diptera) are recorded from Ukraine for the first time: Krenopelopia binotata (Wiedemann, 1817), Chaetocladius gracilis Brundin, 1956, Limnophyes asquamatus Andersen, 1937, Paraphaenocladius exagitans monticola Strenzke, 1950, Thienemannia gracei (Edwards, 1929), T. gracilis Kieffer, 1909, and Micropsectra notescens (Walker, 1856). The record of C. laminatus Brundin, 1947 from Ukraine is confirmed. Adults of all species emerged from semiaquatic substrata (moss, litter) collected from mountain springs and streams in the Gorgany Massif of the Ukrainian Carpathians; C. gracilis, P. exagitans monticola and T. gracei are for the first time recorded from springs. The type specimens of C. gracilis are reexamined, and the lectotype is designated. Emendations are proposed to the diagnosis of the genus Thienemannia Kieffer, 1911 and to the diagnostic characters of the male of T. gracei.
Publisher
Zoological Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences
Subject
Animal Science and Zoology,Insect Science,Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics
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