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Xenochironomus
Sign in to saveXenochironomus is a genus of nonbiting midges in the family Chironomidae. There are about 16 described species in Xenochironomus.
Species
GENUS
- KingdomAnimalia
- PhylumArthropoda
- ClassInsecta
- OrderDiptera
- FamilyChironomidae
via GBIF
Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 110
- With media
- 1
- Family
- Chironomidae
- Collections
- ABS, INHS, KU, AM, UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH, CENTRE FOR BIODIVERSITY GENOMICS, RBINS-SCIENTIFIC HERITAGE
- Recorded in
- United States, South Africa, Canada
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- taxon
- Parent taxon
- Chironominae
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- taxon name
- Xenochironomus
- taxon rank
- genus
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Xenochironomus is a genus of nonbiting midges in the family Chironomidae. There are about 16 described species in Xenochironomus.
==Species== These 16 species belong to the genus Xenochironomus: Xenochironomus canterburyensis (Freeman, 1959) Xenochironomus ceciliae Roque & Trivinho-Strixino, 2005 Xenochironomus festivus Say Xenochironomus flaviventris (Kieffer, 1911) Kieffer, 1911 Xenochironomus glaber Yu & Wang, 2010 Xenochironomus hexataeniorhynchus Ree, 2009 Xenochironomus jungorum Albu, 1980 Xenochironomus lacertus Dutta & Chaudhuri, 1995 Xenochironomus loripes Guha & Chaudhuri, 1980 Xenochironomus nigricaudus Hashimoto, 1981 Xenochironomus taenionotus Say Xenochironomus trisetosus (Kieffer, 1922) Xenochironomus trochanteratus (Thomson, 1869) Xenochironomus tuberosus Wang, 2000 Xenochironomus ugandae (Goetghebuer, 1936) Xenochironomus xenolabis (Kieffer, 1916)
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