{"title":"Data on Buchonomyia thienemanni Fittkau (Diptera: Chironomidae) from Slovakia","authors":"P. Bitušík, P. Ashe","doi":"10.5324/CJCR.V0I27.1709","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5324/CJCR.V0I27.1709","url":null,"abstract":"All known records of Buchonomyia thienemanni Fittkau from Slovakia are summarised below which includes two records from the Žilina Region and one record each from the regions of Levice and Sereď. Bitusik (1987) published the first record of the species for Slovakia from the Rajcianka submontane brook. The species was also found during a study on the longitudinal zonation of chironomid assemblages in the River Hron (Bitusik et al. 2006). Specimens from all localities are based on pupal exuviae collected with drift nets. Details on two previously unpublished records are provided.","PeriodicalId":30852,"journal":{"name":"CHIRONOMUS Journal of Chironomidae Research","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-12-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"70779565","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"First record of Diamesa thomasi Serra-Tosio, 1970, from Croatia","authors":"V. Baranov, M. Ivković, E. Willassen","doi":"10.5324/CJCR.V0I26.1623","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5324/CJCR.V0I26.1623","url":null,"abstract":"Plitvice National Park is situated in the mountainous karst area of Croatia. When conducting studies of the chironomid fauna of the park, we found that Diamesa thomasi Serra-Tosio, 1970 were abundant in the stream Bjela rijeka. The streams Bijela rijeka and Crna rijeka form the Matica River, which is the main surface-water supplier of the lakes in the park. This is the first record of D. thomasi in Croatia. The river’s source, the Bijela rijeka spring, is located at an altitude of 719 m a.s.l. at 44°50’05” N and 15°33’43” E. The Bijela rijeka spring is a rheocrene that dries out only during extremely dry years (Marusic & Curuvija 1991). Spring water emerges from substrate composed mainly of cobbles and sand with a few interspersed moss-covered boulders. Because of these characteristics, it is considered a psammorheocrene type of spring (Gerecke et al. 1998). The tree canopy is open during spring, and there is much aquatic vegetation and accumulated allochthonous organic material during autumn and winter.","PeriodicalId":30852,"journal":{"name":"CHIRONOMUS Journal of Chironomidae Research","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-12-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"70779133","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A simple method for slide-mounting chironomid hypopygia in lateral view (and for similar preparations)","authors":"M. Spies","doi":"10.5324/CJCR.V0I26.1614","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5324/CJCR.V0I26.1614","url":null,"abstract":"From the very beginnings of my work in chironomid taxonomy, I have always found it highly informative, frequently even indispensable, to examine and document structures of three-dimensional complexity, such as the adult male hypopygium, from more than just one angle. For example, in the convoluted case of Parachironomus monochromus (van der Wulp) and P. tenuicaudatus (Malloch), sorting specimens and resolving the conflicts among various usages of these names were aided greatly by studying the hypopygia in lateral view (Spies 2000, e.g. figs. 1-4; for further examples, see Spies et al. 1994).","PeriodicalId":30852,"journal":{"name":"CHIRONOMUS Journal of Chironomidae Research","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-12-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"70779220","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A contribution towards a revision of West Palaearctic Procladius Skuse (Diptera:Chironomidae)","authors":"P. Langton, P. Bitušík, Juliana Mitterova","doi":"10.5324/CJCR.V0I26.1620","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5324/CJCR.V0I26.1620","url":null,"abstract":"The genus Procladius is in great need of revision. Such an exercise would be fraught with many uncertainties. Those species characterized by having marked wings may have the markings extremely faint and perhaps even absent. The spur of the gonostylus is variable in length and shape, in the pharate adult rotated more vertically and compressed, so that association with pupal structure is not simple. It appears that the spur is extended hydraulically on eclosion, perhaps to a variable degree. The one character that appears to remain constant is the phallapodeme toothed at apex or not, but that just separates the subgenus Holotanypus into two groups. Even the type species of s.g. Holotanypus, P. (H.) culiciformis (Linnaeus) is not keyed in Langton & Pinder (2007), though recorded for Britain, because the authors were unable to find a clear separation from P. (H.) choreus (Meigen). We here provide a key to the pupal exuviae of subgenus Holotanypus that are now known to us as a step towards a generic revision1. Terminology as in Langton (1991).","PeriodicalId":30852,"journal":{"name":"CHIRONOMUS Journal of Chironomidae Research","volume":"1 1","pages":"41-44"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-12-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"70779011","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Comments on some species in Chironomini","authors":"H. Vallenduuk","doi":"10.5324/CJCR.V0I26.1622","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5324/CJCR.V0I26.1622","url":null,"abstract":"Re-identification of some Chironomus species, Chironomus macani and C. dorsalis. Comments on information in Moller Pillot, 2009. A short discussion on the value of single reared larvae, cytology and DNA.","PeriodicalId":30852,"journal":{"name":"CHIRONOMUS Journal of Chironomidae Research","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-12-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"70779032","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"In memory of Nikolai Ivanovich Zelentsov (1941–2012)","authors":"T. D. Zinchenko, E. A. Makarchenko","doi":"10.5324/CJCR.V0I26.1627","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5324/CJCR.V0I26.1627","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":30852,"journal":{"name":"CHIRONOMUS Journal of Chironomidae Research","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-12-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"70779240","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Amy Steeby, P. Cranston, J. H. Epler, Saul Frommer, W. Giłka, Barbara Hayford, Jon Martin, M. Spies, E. Stúr, T. Ekrem, Diego A. A. Suárez, W. Wülker
{"title":"In memory of James E. Sublette (1928-2012)","authors":"Amy Steeby, P. Cranston, J. H. Epler, Saul Frommer, W. Giłka, Barbara Hayford, Jon Martin, M. Spies, E. Stúr, T. Ekrem, Diego A. A. Suárez, W. Wülker","doi":"10.5324/CJCR.V0I26.1626","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5324/CJCR.V0I26.1626","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":30852,"journal":{"name":"CHIRONOMUS Journal of Chironomidae Research","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-12-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"70779379","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Larvae of Chironomidae of the Holarctic Region – Keys and diagnoses","authors":"O. Heiri","doi":"10.5324/CJCR.V0I26.1656","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5324/CJCR.V0I26.1656","url":null,"abstract":"The Wiederholm 1983 key to the larvae of the Holarctic Chironomidae was by far the most used book during my PhD and my post-doctoral years. It shaped my understanding of chironomid classification and identification, and provided the basis for most of my work as a chironomid ecologist and palaeoecologist. It is, therefore, with high expectations (will there be new taxa?) and some dread (will I have to rethink my classification?) that I opened the copy of the revised “Chironomidae of the Holarctic region. Key and diagnoses Larvae” that was kindly provided to me by Lennart Cederholm at Scandinavian Entomology Ltd. At first glance, the book, edited by Trond Andersen, Pete Cranston, and John Epler, does not look much different than the original edited by Torgny Wiederholm. It has the same cover, color, and is similarly massive, although the format has changed the book has now become several centimeters broader. My first impression was one of slight disappointment. Many of the figures are obviously identical as in the 1983 version, but not as well reproduced. In many sections the text also remains more or less the same, especially in the larval descriptions for the different genera. The chapters are presented in a similar order, starting with an introduction and a section describing the morphology of the larvae, followed by a key to the different subfamilies. These initial chapters are followed by sections dealing with the different subfamilies: Buchonomyiinae, Podonominae, Tanypodinae, Telmatogetoninae, Diamesinae, Prodiamesinae, Orthocladiinae, and Chironominae. The book also includes a foreword and an index of the discussed Holarctic chironomid taxa.","PeriodicalId":30852,"journal":{"name":"CHIRONOMUS Journal of Chironomidae Research","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-12-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"70778926","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A survey of publications with chironomid content represented in bibliographic databases on the web","authors":"M. Spies","doi":"10.5324/cjcr.v0i26.1655","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5324/cjcr.v0i26.1655","url":null,"abstract":"Three online databases were searched between the 9th and 12th of December 2013. Each basic search operation covered a single calendar year only; sum totals calculated for longer periods were checked by searching with corresponding year ranges, where the entry fields and search functions allowed this. Many data for 2013 have yet to be entered in the databases; thus, this year can be considered only as far as general trends.","PeriodicalId":30852,"journal":{"name":"CHIRONOMUS Journal of Chironomidae Research","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-12-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"70779260","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Importance of Illustration","authors":"Alyssa M. Anderson","doi":"10.5324/CJCR.V0I26.1615","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5324/CJCR.V0I26.1615","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":30852,"journal":{"name":"CHIRONOMUS Journal of Chironomidae Research","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-12-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"70779267","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}