{"title":"New faunistic records of Chironomidae (Diptera: Insecta) from Iran","authors":"Habibollah Mohammadi, A. Namayandeh, E. Ghaderi","doi":"10.22067/IJAB.2021.68978.1003","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Ongoing investigation into Chironomidae specimens collected from the Sirwan River watershed in 2020 resulted in two new faunistic records for Iran, and new range extensions for the Palearctic region. Two species, Paramerina divisa (Walker, 1856) and Xenochironomus xenolabis (Kieffer, 1916) are diagnosed and reported for the first time from Iran. This contributes to establishing baseline data about the diversity and distribution of freshwater flora and fauna of this region.\nKey words: Chironomidae, Iran, faunistic records, Palearctic, Middle East, Kurdistan \n\nOngoing investigation into Chironomidae specimens collected from the Sirwan River watershed in 2020 resulted in two new faunistic records for Iran, and new range extensions for the Palearctic region. Two species, Paramerina divisa (Walker, 1856) and Xenochironomus xenolabis (Kieffer, 1916) are diagnosed and reported for the first time from Iran. This contributes to establishing baseline data about the diversity and distribution of freshwater flora and fauna of this region.\nKey words: Chironomidae, Iran, faunistic records, Palearctic, Middle East, Kurdistan","PeriodicalId":14532,"journal":{"name":"Iranian Journal of Animal Biosystematics","volume":"7 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2021-11-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Iranian Journal of Animal Biosystematics","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.22067/IJAB.2021.68978.1003","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Ongoing investigation into Chironomidae specimens collected from the Sirwan River watershed in 2020 resulted in two new faunistic records for Iran, and new range extensions for the Palearctic region. Two species, Paramerina divisa (Walker, 1856) and Xenochironomus xenolabis (Kieffer, 1916) are diagnosed and reported for the first time from Iran. This contributes to establishing baseline data about the diversity and distribution of freshwater flora and fauna of this region.
Key words: Chironomidae, Iran, faunistic records, Palearctic, Middle East, Kurdistan
Ongoing investigation into Chironomidae specimens collected from the Sirwan River watershed in 2020 resulted in two new faunistic records for Iran, and new range extensions for the Palearctic region. Two species, Paramerina divisa (Walker, 1856) and Xenochironomus xenolabis (Kieffer, 1916) are diagnosed and reported for the first time from Iran. This contributes to establishing baseline data about the diversity and distribution of freshwater flora and fauna of this region.
Key words: Chironomidae, Iran, faunistic records, Palearctic, Middle East, Kurdistan