Riethia Kieffer, 1917

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 : 217

publication ID	https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5613.2.1
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DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15224250
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scientific name	Riethia Kieffer, 1917
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Genus Riethia Kieffer, 1917 View in CoL

A transantarctic genus of more than 20 named species that occurs in South and Central America ( Trivinho-Strixino & Shimabukuro 2018; Andersen & Sanz-laParra 2023; Andersen et al. 2024), and the Austro-Pacific region ( Cranston 2019a). In South America larva of R. truncatocaudata ( Edwards, 1931) occurs in habitats characterised by high amounts of fine organic particles in both lotic and lentic systems ( Trivinho-Strixino et al. 2009).

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Kingdom	Animalia
Phylum	Arthropoda
Class	Insecta
Order	Diptera
Family	Chironomidae
SubFamily	Chironominae
Tribe	Pseudochironomini

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