Chironomids, imago collections

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krasheninnikov, 23.04.2008 7:04

Who has an imago of Ural chironomids (except for the Chironomini subfamily) - write. I'll help you with the definitions

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22.12.2009 23:28, Triops

I tried the other day to identify Caucasian chironomids (in osn. orthocladin) by larvae up to a species (according to volume 4 of the Freshwater Invertebrate Determinant...)"I broke my head.
In general, does anyone know how/like to do this? I don't feel sorry for the larvae-300 samples from the Caucasus, 300 from European Russia, and almost 200 from Yamal..There are more from the Balkans,the Carpathians, and the Crimea...from the tropics even :-))
In fact, I can try to collect adult mosquitoes, if this can somehow clarify the situation with their larvae (although, as a hydrobiologist, I have never collected flying imagos on an industrial scale and do not even really imagine how this is done).
By the way, now in the Caucasus (on the Black Sea coast on the Sochi-Sukhum segment), how old is it?

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23.03.2018 1:38, ИНО

Mine somehow managed without snags, I don't know if they climbed the walls or started directly from the surface - I didn't look closely. Yes, and how much they got stronger there, I did not notice. I opened the jar a week later - a bunch of mosquitoes are already quite flying. He closed it with a brochure that came to hand. The jar was standing in the light, but not in direct sunlight.

You should be very careful with snags: poorly treated ones often turn moldy, which leads to the death of all living things in the water. And correct processing is not trivial. But you can make a knight's move: take a snag from a natural reservoir that has been lying at the bottom for a long time. But IMHO specifically for chironomids, this is unnecessary.

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