Cardiocladius Kieffer, 1912

Armitage, Brian J., Andersen, Trond, Giłka, Wojciech, Castillo Sánchez, Kayla N., Ríos González, Tomás A. & Aguirre, Yusseff P., 2025, The Diptera of Panama. II. A first benchmark for the family Chironomidae, Zootaxa 5613 (2), pp. 201-240 : 223

publication ID	https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5613.2.1
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DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15224279
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scientific name	Cardiocladius Kieffer, 1912
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Genus Cardiocladius Kieffer, 1912 View in CoL

A genus of 20 named species that occur in all zoogeographical regions except Antarctica and Oceania.The Neotropical species were reviewed by Andersen et al. (2016). The larvae live in fast-flowing waters and are often associated with the immature stages of blackflies ( Simuliidae ), on which they are reported to be predaceous ( Andersen et al. 2013).

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Kingdom	Animalia
Phylum	Arthropoda
Class	Insecta
Order	Diptera
Family	Chironomidae
SubFamily	Orthocladiinae

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