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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Flies (Diptera) » "Nematocera" (Non-Brachycera) » Mosquitoes and Midges (Culicomorpha) » Non-biting Midges (Chironomidae)

Family Chironomidae - Non-biting Midges

Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Flies (Diptera) » "Nematocera" (Non-Brachycera) » Mosquitoes and Midges (Culicomorpha) » Non-biting Midges (Chironomidae)

A dated molecular phylogeny for the Chironomidae (Diptera)

By Peter Cranston, Nate B. Hardy, & Geoffrey Easton Morse
Systematic Entomology, 37(1):172 - 188, 2011

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Contributed by Jonathan Hoskins on 1 December, 2024 - 1:34am

Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Flies (Diptera) » "Nematocera" (Non-Brachycera) » Mosquitoes and Midges (Culicomorpha) » Non-biting Midges (Chironomidae)

A world catalogue of Chironomidae (Diptera), Part 1: Buchonomyiinae, Chilenomyiinae, Podonominae, Aphroteniinae, Tanypodinae...

By Patrick Ashe and James P. O'Connor
The Irish Biogeographical Society, 2009

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Contributed by Zachary Dankowicz on 1 April, 2024 - 10:24am

Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Flies (Diptera) » "Nematocera" (Non-Brachycera) » Mosquitoes and Midges (Culicomorpha) » Non-biting Midges (Chironomidae)

Identification manual for the larval Chironomidae (Diptera) of North and South Carolina

By John H. Epler
North Carolina Department of Environment and Natural Resources, Division of Water Quality., 2001

Epler, J. H. (2001). Identification manual for the larval Chironomidae (Diptera) of North and South Carolina, North Carolina Department of Environment and Natural Resources, Division of Water Quality.

Keys to genera of Chironomidae of North and South Carolina, but works pretty well anywhere in the country. Also keys to species for many genera. I use this along with the Chironomidae chapter in Merritt, Cummins and Berg as well as the Wiederholm Holarctic larvae book.

PDF available at John Epler's website among other places: http://johnepler.com/SEMidges.pdf

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Contributed by Brady Richards on 14 December, 2022 - 6:08pm

Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Flies (Diptera) » "Nematocera" (Non-Brachycera) » Mosquitoes and Midges (Culicomorpha) » Non-biting Midges (Chironomidae)

The adult males of Chironomidae (Diptera) of the Holarctic Region

By Torgny Wiederholm
Entomologica Scandinavica, 1989

Entomologica Scandinavica Supplement 34 is a 532 page volume with keys, diagnoses, and drawings of the genera of Chironomidae of the Holarctic region.

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Contributed by John F. Carr on 28 June, 2011 - 7:07pm

Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Flies (Diptera) » "Nematocera" (Non-Brachycera) » Mosquitoes and Midges (Culicomorpha) » Non-biting Midges (Chironomidae)

The genera of larval midges of Canada (Diptera, Chironomidae)

By Oliver D.R., Roussel M.E.
The insects and arachnids of Canada, Pt. 11. Ottawa: Agriculture Canada. 263 pp., 1983

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Contributed by v belov on 31 January, 2011 - 2:09pm

Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Flies (Diptera) » "Nematocera" (Non-Brachycera) » Mosquitoes and Midges (Culicomorpha) » Non-biting Midges (Chironomidae)

The Chironomidae

By P. D. Armitage, P. S. Cranston, L. C. V. Pinder
Springer, 1995

Subtitled "The biology and ecology of non-biting midges."

The publisher writes: "The dipteran family Chironomidae is the most widely distributed and frequently the most abundant group of insects in freshwater with representatives in both terrestrial and marine environments. This book provides a state-of-the-art account of the family including both pure and applied aspects of research."

Available on Google Books at http://books.google.com/books?id=bQyvnx4x6toC.

Contains a key to subfamilies beginning at page 53, which suffers

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Contributed by John F. Carr on 24 October, 2008 - 6:02am

Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Flies (Diptera) » "Nematocera" (Non-Brachycera) » Mosquitoes and Midges (Culicomorpha) » Non-biting Midges (Chironomidae) » Orthocladiinae » Corynoneura group » Thienemanniella

First Nearctic records of Oliveiriella Wiedenbrug and Fittkau, with new distributional records for two other New World species o

By Krestian, B. J., E. Kosnicki, et al.
Entomological News 120(4): 349-362., 2010

Krestian, B. J., E. Kosnicki, Patrice H. Spindler, Shann Stringer and John H. Epler (2010). "First Nearctic records of Oliveiriella Wiedenbrug and Fittkau, with new distributional records for two other New World species of Orthocladiinae (Diptera: Chironomidae)." Entomological News 120(4): 349-362.

Among other things, provides characters to help separate the larvae of similar genera Thienemanniella, Corynoneura, Onconeura and Tempisquitoneura.

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Contributed by Brady Richards on 14 December, 2022 - 5:49pm

Revision of the North American species of the genus Pentaneura (Tendipedidae: Chironomidae, Diptera).

By Johannsen, 0.A.
Journal of the New York Entomological Society. 54: 267–289., 1946

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Johannsen, 0.A. 1946. Revision of the North American species of the genus Pentaneura (Tendipedidae: Chironomidae, Diptera). Journal of the New York Entomological Society. 54: 267–289.

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Contributed by Mike Quinn on 1 December, 2020 - 4:18pm

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