Parochlus Enderlein, 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 : 227

publication ID

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

publication LSID

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DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15224313

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/1C04CD04-6E2C-FF81-FF51-214EFAF0A03B

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scientific name

Parochlus Enderlein, 1912
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Genus Parochlus Enderlein, 1912 View in CoL

A genus of 48 named species that occurs in all zoogeographical regions except the Afrotropical and Oriental regions and Oceania. South America is the most diverse region with 27 named species, while two species, P. crozetensis Serra-Tosio, 1986 and P. steinenii (Gercke, 1889) are known from Antarctica ( Ashe & O’Connor 2009). The larvae are found mostly in torrents and mountain streams, but also in lakes ( Brundin 1966; Saether & Andersen 2013).

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Diptera

Family

Chironomidae

SubFamily

Podonominae

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