Limnophyes

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Chironomoidea

Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Podiata Cladus: Amorphea Cladus: Obazoa Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Cladus: Filozoa Cladus: Choanozoa Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Eumetazoa Cladus: ParaHoxozoa Cladus: Bilateria Cladus: Nephrozoa Cladus: Protostomia Superphylum: Ecdysozoa Cladus: Panarthropoda Phylum: Arthropoda Cladus: Mandibulata Cladus: Pancrustacea Cladus: Allotriocarida Subphylum: Hexapoda Classis: Insecta Cladus: Dicondylia Subclassis: Pterygota Infraclassis: Neoptera Cladus: Eumetabola Cladus: Holometabola Superordo: Panorpida Cladus: Antliophora Ordo: Diptera Subordo: Nematocera Infraordo: Culicomorpha Superfamilia: Chironomoidea

Familia: Chironomidae
Subfamilia: Orthocladiinae
Genus: Limnophyes
Species: (incomplete) L. guarani – L. minerus – L. nudus – L. stagnum – L. subtilus – L. vestitus –

Name

Limnophyes Eaton, 1875: 60

• Type species: Limnophyes pusillus Eaton, 1875 (by monotypy) = Synonym of Limnophyes minimus (Meigen, 1818)

References

Primary references

• Eaton, A.E. 1875. Breves Dipterarum uniusque Lepidopterarum insulae Kerguelensi indigenarum diagnoses. Entomologist's monthly magazine 12: 58–61. BHL Reference page. 

Additional references

• Brundin, L. 1970: DIPTERA: CHIRONOMIDAE OF SOUTH GEORGIA. Pacific insects monograph, 23: 276. PDF
• Liu, W-B., Zhao, C., Kong, F-Q., Yan, C-C. & Wang, X-H. 2021. New species of Limnophyes Eaton (Diptera, Chironomidae) from China and synonymy of L. fuscipygmus Tokunaga, 1940. ZooKeys, 1011: 51–61. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.1011.58993 Reference page. 
• Namayandeh, A., Guerra, S., Islam, N., James, T., Hudson, P.L., Ghaderi, E., Yusuf, T., Vasquez, A.A. & Ram, J.L. 2024. New species and a fascinating diversity of Chironomidae (Diptera, Insecta) in and around an overlooked urban vernal pool. ZooKeys 1208: 133–163. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.1208.124495 Reference page. 
• Pinho, L.C. & Andersen, T. 2015: Limnophyes guarani sp. n., a new hygropetric Orthocladiinae from southern Brazil (Diptera: Chironomidae). Zootaxa 3948(1): 137–144. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3948.1.9. Preview (PDF) Full article (PDF) Reference page. 
• Song, C., Zheng, J-C., Wang, X-H. & Qi, X. 2020. A new species of Limnophyes Eaton (Diptera: Chironomidae) from Xizang, China. Zootaxa 4722(3): 295–300. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4722.3.7 Reference page. 

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