Demicryptochironomus Lenz, 1941

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 : 209

publication ID	https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5613.2.1
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DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15224196
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scientific name	Demicryptochironomus Lenz, 1941
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Genus Demicryptochironomus Lenz, 1941 View in CoL

A genus of 31 described species distributed in all zoogeographical regions, except Oceania and Antarctica. Larvae assigned to Demicryptochironomus have been recorded from Brazil ( Roque et al. 2004; Trivinho-Strixino 2011). A key to adult males was given by Yan et al. (2008). The larvae occur in sandy or muddy sediments in lakes, streams, and rivers, where they have been reported to be predatory, especially on oligochaetes ( Epler et al. 2013).

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Taxonomy

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

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