Denopelopia Roback et Rutter, 1988

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 : 229

publication ID

https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5613.2.1

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:CA7C2AC5-1F69-448F-B686-511FA33FF06E

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15224327

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/1C04CD04-6E2A-FF87-FF51-2137FE35A007

treatment provided by

Plazi

scientific name

Denopelopia Roback et Rutter, 1988
status

 

Genus Denopelopia Roback et Rutter, 1988 View in CoL

A genus of six species that occur in the Neotropical and Oriental regions. Currently, three species are known from Southern and Central America and Florida (Roback & Rutter 1985; Silva et al. 2014; Dantas et al. 2016). Unnamed material at ZSM includes an adult male from Panama ( Spies & Reiss 1996). The larvae have been found in ditches and ponds with dense macrophyte stands and can tolerate low dissolved oxygen and high iron concentrations ( Cranston & Epler 2013).

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Diptera

Family

Chironomidae

SubFamily

Tanypodinae

Tribe

Pentaneurini

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