Hostname: page-component-848d4c4894-x24gv Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2024-05-03T00:41:52.651Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false
  • English
  • Français

New records of Chironomidae (Diptera: Insecta) from the Azores, Macaronesia

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 February 2009

D. A. Murray ,
S. J. Hughes ,
M. T. Furse  and
W. A. Murray
D. A. Murray
Affiliation:
Department of Zoology, National University of Ireland, Dublin, Belfield, Dublin 4, Ireland
S. J. Hughes
Affiliation:
Laboratorio Regional de Engenharia Civil, Dept de Recursos Naturais e de Hidraulica, Rua Agostinho Pereira de Oliveira, 9000-264 Funchal, Portugal. Centro de Estudos da Macronesia, Universidade da Madeira, Campus de Penteada, 9000 Funchal, Portugal.
M. T. Furse
Affiliation:
Centre for Ecology and Hydrology, East Stoke, Dorset, BH20 6BB, England.
W. A. Murray
Affiliation:
Department of Zoology, National University of Ireland, Dublin, Belfield, Dublin 4, Ireland
Get access

Abstract

Collections of Chironomidae from aquatic habitats on the Azores islands of São Miguel and Flores during August 1997 and on São Miguel, Terceira and Graciosa in September-October 1998, yielded 33 species-level taxa. Representatives of 16 taxa in three subfamilies are new generic / species records for the Azores archipelago: Tanypodinae - Procladius (Holotanypus) choreus (Meigen), Paramerina sp. griechenland, Zavrelimyia sp.; Orthocladiinae - Metriocnemus (Inermipupa) carmencitabertarum Langton et Cobo, Orthocladius (Eudactylocladius) sp., Psectrocladius limbatellus (Holmgren), Psectrocladius sp., Pseudorthocladius sp., Smittia contingens (Walker); Chironominae - Chironomus cingulatus Meigen, Chironomus cf annularius (De Geer), Glyptotendipes barbipes (Staeger), Glyptotendipes pallens (Meigen), Polypedilum nubifer (Skuse), Micropsectra sp. (cf lindrothi Goetghebuer), Paratanytarsus grimmii (Schneider). A revised checklist is provided, incorporating and updating previous records.

Keywords

InsectaChironomidaeAzoresMacaronesiadistribution
Type
Research Article
Information
Annales de Limnologie - International Journal of Limnology , Volume 40 , Issue 1 , March 2004 , pp. 33 - 42
Copyright
© Université Paul Sabatier, 2004

Access options

Get access to the full version of this content by using one of the access options below. (Log in options will check for institutional or personal access. Content may require purchase if you do not have access.)