Chironominae

Hebert, Torbjørn Ekrem Elisabeth Stur Paul D. N., 2010, Females do count: Documenting Chironomidae (Diptera) species diversity using DNA barcoding, Organisms Diversity & Evolution 10 (5), pp. 397-408 : 406

Chironominae

The taxonomy of species in the genus Parapsectra was recently revised ( Giłka and Jażdżewska 2010) and our record of P. chionophila (Edwards, 1933) is just the second from Norway. This species is relatively poorly known, but presumed to be cold-stenothermic in springs, brooks, moorland pools and peat bogs ( Giłka and Jażdżewska 2010). In results from recent molecular phylogenetic analyses, species of the genus Parapsectra formed several groups within the larger genus Micropsectra ( Ekrem et al. 2010) . Consequently, we treat Parapsectra as a junior synonym of Micropsectra and all species of the former genus in the latter.