AIMC Topic: Chironomidae

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Unsupervised deep clustering as a tool for the identification of dark taxa in biomonitoring.

Environmental monitoring and assessment
The identification of aquatic macroinvertebrates, particularly dark taxa like Chironomidae, due to their complex morphological features and unresolved taxonomy hinder the efficiency of routine biomonitoring. This study proposes an unsupervised deep c...

Review of the genus Shilovia Makarchenko (Diptera: Chironomidae: Diamesinae: Boreoheptagyiini) from the mountains of Central Asia, with morphological description and DNA barcoding of known species.

Zootaxa
Chironomids of the genus Shilovia Makarchenko (Diamesinae, Boreoheptagyiini) from the mountains of Central Asia are revised using both morphological characters and molecular data. Illustrated descriptions of the adult male Shilovia xinhuawangi sp. no...