A conspectus of contemporary studies in Chironomidae (Diptera) Entomologica Scandinavica Supplement 29

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Contributions from the Ixth Symposium on Chironomidae, Bergen, Norway.

Contents:

SÆTHER, O. A.: The Ixth International Symposium on Chironomidae, Bergen, Norway 1985.

ROBACK, S. S. A brief history of chironomid research in North America.

BOOTHROYD, I. K. G.: Taxonomic composition and life cycles of Chironomidae (Diptera) in a northern New Zealand stream.

CHAUDHURI, P. K. & GUHA, D. K.: A conspectus of the chironomid midges (Diptera: Chironomidae) of India and Bhutan.

WANG, S. D.: Chironomidae research in China.

HARRISON, A. D.: Chironomidae of five central Ethiopian Rift Valley lakes.

PALOMÄKI, R.: The Chironomidae of some lakes and rivers in Nicaragua.

CRANSTON, P. S. & OLIVER, D. R.: Problems in Holarctic chironomid biogeography.

VILCHEZ, A. & CASA, J.: Chironomidae (Diptera) from stagnant waters in Granada, Spain.

HARE, L. & CARTER, J. C. H.: Chironomidae (Diptera, Insecta) from the environs of a natural West African lake.

WEBB, C. J. & SCHOLL, A. Comparative morphology of the larval ventromental plates of European species of Einfeldia Kieffer and Chironomus Meigen (subgenera Lobochironomus and Camptochironomus) (Diptera: Chironomidae).

SUBLETTE, J. E. & SUBLETTE, M.: Microtrichial color determinants in Cricotopus (Diptera: Chironomidae).

MORISCH, U. & WÜLKER, W.: Formation of the cerci, abdominal segment X and postgenital plate in the genital imaginal discs of female larvae and pupae in Chironomus (Diptera).

OMOKU, C. C. & MURRAY, D. A.: Observations on the pupal thoracic horn of some Tanypodinae (Diptera: Chironomidae).

MICHAILOVA, P. V.: Comparative karyological analysis of species of the genus Endochironomus Kieffer (Diptera: Chironomidae).

KIKNADZE, I. I.: Chromosomal polymorphism in natural populations of the plumosus species-group of West Sibiria (Diptera: Chironomidae).

SOPONIS, A. R.: Notes on Orthocladius (Orthocladius) frigidus (Zetterstedt) with a redescription of the species ((Diptera: Chironomidae).

CASPERS, N.: Chaetocladius insolitus n.sp. (Diptera: Chironomidae) from Lunz, Austria.

GRODHAUS, G.: Phaenopsectra mortensoni n.sp. And its relationship to other Chironomidae (Diptera) of temporary pools.

EPLER, J. H.: Notes on Dicrotendipes (Diptera: Chironomidae) of Mexico, with descriptions of two new species.

DOWLING, C.: A description of two new species of the genus Thienemannimyia (Diptera: Chironomidae), from North Africa.

MURRAY, D. A.: Conchapelopia aagaardi n.sp., a new species of Tanypodinae (Diptera: Chironomidae) from Norway.

HALVORSEN, G. A. & SÆTHER, O. A.: Redefinition and revision of the genus Tokunagaia Sæther, 1973 (Diptera: Chironomidae).

SÆTHER, O. A. & WILLASSEN, E. Four new species of Diamesa Meigen, 1835 (Diptera: Chironomidae) from the glaciers of Nepal.

MAKARCHENKO, E. A.: New or little known chironomids of Podonominae and Diamesinae (Diptera: Chironomidae) from the USSR.

FRANK, C.: A comparative study of chironomid (Diptera) emergence data from 14 lakes in the urban region of West Berlin.BUSKENS, R. F. M.: The chironomid assemblages in shallow lentic waters differing in acidity, buffering capacity and trophic level in the Netherlands.

BERGQUIST, B.: Effects of peatland drainage and fertilization on the abundance and biomass of Stichtochironomus rosenschoeldi (Zett.) and Sergentia longiventris (Kieff.) (Diptera: Chironomidae) in Lake Siksjön, Central Sweden.

JOHNSON, R. K. & PEJLER, B. Life histories and coexistence of the two profundal Chironomus species in Lake Erken, Sweden.

KOSKENNIEMI, E. & PAASIVIRTA, L.: The chironomid (Diptera) fauna in a Finnish reservoir during its first four years.

BUTLER, M. G. Utility of larval instar, size and development data for recognition of cohorts in a merovoltine Chironomus population.

Van der VELDE, G. & HIDDINK, R. Chironomidae mining in Nuphar lutea (L.) Sm. (Nymphacaeaceae).

WINKEL, E. H. ten & DAVIDS, C. Cyprinid fish and water mite reducing chironomid populations.

LEUVEN, R. S. E. W., v.d. VELDEN, J. A., VANHEMELRIJK, J. A. & v.d. Velde, G.: Impact of acidification on chironomid communities in poorly buffered waters in the Netherlands.

GODDEERIS, B.: The time factor in the niche space of Tanytarsus-species in two ponds in the Belgian Ardennes (Diptera: Chironomidae).

CERETTI, G., FERRARESE, U., FRANCESCON, A. & BARBARO, A.: Chironomids (Diptera: Chironomidae) in the natural diet of gilthead seabream (Sparus aurata L.) farmed in the Venice lagoon.

LINDEGAARD, C. & JONSSON, E.: Abundance, population dynamics and high production of Chironomidae (Diptera) in Hjarbæk Fjord, Denmark, during a period of eutrophication.

KAJAK, Z.: Determinants of maximum biomass of benthic Chironomidae (Diptera).

HERRMANN, S. J., SUBLETTE, J. E. & SUBLETTE, M.: Midwinter emergence of Diamesa leona Roback in the Upper Arkansas River, Colorado, with notes on other diamesines (Diptera: Chironomidae).

MILLET, X., MUÑOZ, I. & PRAT, N.: The use of a transect sampling in estimating chironomid abundance and distribution.

ROSSARO, B.: Chironomid emergence in the Po River (Italy) near a nuclear power plant.

STOREY, A. W.: Influence of temperature and food quality on the life history of an epiphytic chironomid.

AAGAARD, K., OLSEN, A. & SOLEM, J. O.: Chironomids of Blesbekken, an alpine tundra stream at Dovrefjell National Park, Norway.

HAYES, B. P. & MURRAY, D. A.: Species composition and emergence of Chironomidae (Diptera) from three high arctic streams on Bathurst Island, Northwest Territories, Canada.

FERRINGTON, L. C., Jr.: Microhabitat preferences of larvae of three Orthocladiinae speccies (Diptera: Chironomidae) in Big Springs, a sandbottom spring in the high plains of western Kansas.

HUDSON, P. L.: Unusual larval habitats and life history of chironomid (Diptera) genera.

CALDWELL, B. A. & PARRISH, F. K.: Chironomidae (Diptera) of small Georgia streams.

MOLDOVÁN, J.: Description of a multispeccies Chironomus community (Diptera: Chironomidae) at an experimental sewage treatment plant.

WILSON, R. S.: Chironomid communities in the River Trent in relation to water chemistry