Zavrelimyia Fittkau, 1962

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 : 230

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.15224347
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scientific name	Zavrelimyia Fittkau, 1962
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Genus Zavrelimyia Fittkau, 1962 View in CoL

Syn.: Paramerina Fittkau , 1962.

Recently Silva & Ekrem (2016) formally placed the genus Paramerina Fittkau as a synonym of Zavrelimyia Fittkau. The genus now comprises ~50 named species that occur in all zoogeographical regions except Antarctica. Larvae of Zavrelimyia s. str. are, with few exceptions, more or less cold stenothermic and in temperate regions of the Holarctic primarily inhabitants of sandy or detritus rich sediments of springs and lentic habitats of stream sections close to springs. Larvae of Zavrelimyia (Paramerina) are eurythermic, living in a variety of standing waters of all sizes, but are also present in small lotic habitats including pools in rivers ( Cranston & Epler 2013).

Kingdom	Animalia
Phylum	Arthropoda
Class	Insecta
Order	Diptera
Family	Chironomidae
SubFamily	Tanypodinae
Tribe	Pentaneurini