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Karyotypes and larval morphology of three species of midges (Diptera, Chironomidae) from lakes in the southern part of Kunashir Island

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Karyotypes of polytene chromosomes and larval morphology are described for three chironomid species from Kunashir Island (the Far East of Russia): Nilothauma sasai Adam et Saether, 1999 (2n = 8), Demicryptochironomus gr. vulneratus (Zett.) (2n = 6) from Lake Lagunnoe and Polypedilum (Uresipedilum) gr. cultellatum Goetghebuer (2n = 8) from Lake Goryachee. Karyotypes with B-chromosomes were found in some specimens of N. sasai.

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Original Russian Text © S.V. Zhirov, N.A. Petrova, 2015, published in Entomologicheskoe Obozrenie, 2015, Vol. 94, No. 3, pp. 599–607.

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Zhirov, S.V., Petrova, N.A. Karyotypes and larval morphology of three species of midges (Diptera, Chironomidae) from lakes in the southern part of Kunashir Island. Entmol. Rev. 95, 881–890 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1134/S0013873815070064

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