Mesosmittia Brundin, 1956

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 : 224

publication ID	https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5613.2.1
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DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15224289
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scientific name	Mesosmittia Brundin, 1956
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Genus Mesosmittia Brundin, 1956 View in CoL

A genus of 18 named species that occur in the Neotropical, Nearctic, Palaearctic, Afrotropical, and Oriental regions. The Neotropical and Mexican species were reviewed by Andersen & Mendes (2002b). The immatures are likely terrestrial ( Andersen et al. 2013).

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Taxonomy

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

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