New faunistic records of Chironomidae (Diptera: Insecta) from Iran

Document Type : Research articles

Authors

• Armin Namayandeh ¹
• Edris Ghaderi ^{2, 3}
• Habibollah Mohammadi ^{3, 4}

¹ Department of Environmental and Life Sciences, Trent University, 1600 West Bank Drive, Peterborough, Ontario, Canada

² Department of Fisheries Sciences, Faculty of Natural Resources, University of Kurdistan, Sanandaj, Iran

³ Department of Fisheries Sciences, Faculty of Natural Resources, University of Kurdistan, Sanandaj, Iran;

⁴ Zrebar Lake Environmental Research, Kurdistan Studies Institute, University of Kurdistan, Sanandaj, Iran

10.22067/ijab.2021.68978.1003

Abstract

Ongoing investigation into Chironomidae specimens collected from the Sirwan River watershed in 2020 resulted in two new faunistic records for Iran, and new range extensions for the Palearctic region. Two species, Paramerina divisa (Walker, 1856) and Xenochironomus xenolabis (Kieffer, 1916) are diagnosed and reported for the first time from Iran. This contributes to establishing baseline data about the diversity and distribution of freshwater flora and fauna of this region.

Keywords

• Chironomidae
• Iran
• faunistic records
• Palearctic
• Middle East
• Kurdistan

Main Subjects

• Morphology
• Taxonomy

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