An identification guide to the genera of aquatic larval Chironomidae (Diptera) of south-east Asia

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dc.contributor.authorCranston, Peter S.en
dc.contributor.authorTang, Hongquen
dc.date.accessioned2025-05-30T22:31:48Z
dc.date.available2025-05-30T22:31:48Z
dc.date.issued2024-08-23en
dc.description.abstractWe provide illustrated dichotomous keys for the identification of final (4th) instar larvae of south-east Asian genera of Chironomidae (Diptera), predominantly from aquatic (freshwater and maritime) habitats. The region considered comprises oriental China, Burma, Thailand, Malaysia (west and east), Brunei, Singapore and Indonesia. Eight subfamilies are represented and phylogenetically validated tribes are keyed. Terminal taxa, listed in the sequence used in this guide, comprise 28 genera of Tanypodinae, 71 of Chironominae, 2 of Podonominae, 1 of Buchonomyiinae, 8 of Diamesinae, 2 of Protanypodinae, 5 of Prodiamesinae, 2 of Telmatogetoninae and 61 of Orthocladiinae. The morphology terminology is standard for larval Chironomidae to which users are referred. Illustrations of selected features are provided as photographs with important details labelled. Short summaries of ecology and concise details of selected species and regional / global distribution are provided in brackets under each entry. Some suspect new synonymy is alluded to, but will be addressed formally in more detail elsewhere.en
dc.description.sponsorshipThis project was a prospective contribution to a series of guides to regional aquatic insects in which keys to the South American Chironomidae (Silva et al . 2018) have been published. However, Zootaxa is more appropriate for wider dissemination, as with the guide to the Australian-New Zealand chironomids (Cranston 2019) . We thank Martin Spies (ZSM) for all his assistance, including investigations on our behalf of the late Frieder Reiss' unpublished observations on the Chironomidae of Burma, Thailand and also those of the late Ernst Fittkau on oriental China including of Hainan Island. We are grateful to Evgeny Makarchenko (Vladivostok) , John Epler (Florida) and Xiaolong Lin (Shanghai) for assisting with additional images. The work was partially supported by the Special Fund for Basic Investigation Research of the Ministry of Science and Technology, China (2022FY100504, Investigation and Biodiversity Assessment of Aquatic Insects of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area) .en
dc.description.statusPeer-revieweden
dc.format.extent43en
dc.identifier.issn1175-5326en
dc.identifier.otherWOS:001302029500001en
dc.identifier.scopus85201884968en
dc.identifier.urihttp://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85201884968&partnerID=8YFLogxKen
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/1885/733755514
dc.language.isoenen
dc.rightsPublisher Copyright: © 2024 Magnolia Press.en
dc.sourceZootaxaen
dc.subjectKeysen
dc.subjectLarvaeen
dc.subjectMorphologyen
dc.subjectNew recordsen
dc.subjectPhotographic illustrationsen
dc.subjectoriental Chinaen
dc.subjectsouth-east Asiaen
dc.titleAn identification guide to the genera of aquatic larval Chironomidae (Diptera) of south-east Asiaen
dc.typeJournal articleen
dspace.entity.typePublicationen
local.bibliographicCitation.lastpage193en
local.bibliographicCitation.startpage151en
local.contributor.affiliationCranston, Peter S.; Division of Ecology and Evolution, Research School of Biology, ANU College of Science and Medicine, The Australian National Universityen
local.contributor.affiliationTang, Hongqu; Jinan Universityen
local.identifier.citationvolume5497en
local.identifier.doi10.11646/zootaxa.5497.2.1en
local.identifier.pure41f9453b-c26b-4767-954e-0dee9f721712en
local.identifier.urlhttps://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/85201884968en
local.type.statusPublisheden

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