Life history study of<i>Chironomus striatipennis</i>Kieffer (Diptera: Chironomidae)

Nandi, Soumi; Aditya, Gautam; Saha, Goutam Kumar

doi:10.1080/00305316.2011.647464

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“…The Brazilian Chironomus population has double the number of eggs (~ 600 eggs) compared to Chironomus kiiensis from Japan, although they were reared at similar water temperatures (25–26 °C), feeding methodology and food type were not the same (Maeda and Yano 1988). Larval development time of the Brazilian Chironomus population was shorter (10 days) than that of the Japanese Chironomus kiiensis population (14–20 days) (Nandi et al 2011). Development times of the 1 st , 2 nd and the 3 rd instars of the Brazilian Chironomus population was shorter than that of the 4 th instar, as has also been observed in other Chironomus species (Fonseca and Rocha 2004; Zilli et al 2008).…”

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“…However, cytotaxonomic studies have indicated that they are sibling species that belong to the same cytocomplex (Martin 2014). Our molecular analysis showed that both species names have been applied to specimens with high genetic divergence, and that the identification based on geographical distribution, which is currently in common usage to circumscribe both species (e.g., Nath and Lakhotia 1989; Yong et al 1999; Jeong et al 2004; Nandi et al 2011), is not a good taxonomic practice.…”

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“…Male survival time of the Brazilian Chironomus population under laboratory conditions was shorter (three days) than in the Japanese Chironomus kiiensis population at similar air temperature (25 °C) (Maeda and Yano 1988; Nandi et al 2011). Environmental conditions can have an effect on species biology and information in this area is important for characterizing the habitat of each species in a species complex and can help to delimit each species in the complex.…”

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“…The problem is that identification of these species is based, mainly, on their geographical distribution since it is not possible to distinguish them at the morphological level (Martin 2014). This fact results in specimens collected in South and Southeast Asia being identified as Chironomus striatipennis and those collected in South Korea and Japan being identified as Chironomus kiiensis (e.g., Nath and Lakhotia 1989; Yong et al 1999; Jeong et al 2004; Nandi et al 2011). …”

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An Asiatic Chironomid in Brazil: morphology, DNA barcode and bionomics

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In most freshwater ecosystems, aquatic insects are dominant in terms of diversity; however, there is a disproportionately low number of records of alien species when compared to other freshwater organisms. The Chironomidae is one aquatic insect family that includes some examples of alien species around the world. During a study on aquatic insects in Amazonas state (Brazil), we collected specimens of Chironomidae that are similar, at the morphological level, to Chironomus kiiensis Tokunaga and Chironomus striatipennis Kieffer, both with distributions restricted to Asia. The objectives of this study were to provide morphological information on this Chironomus population, to investigate its identity using DNA barcoding and, to provide bionomic information about this species. Chironomus DNA barcode data were obtained from GenBank and Barcode of Life Data Systems (BOLD) and, together with our data, were analyzed using the neighbor-joining method with 1000 bootstrap replicates and the genetic distances were estimated using the Kimura-2-parameter. At the morphological level, the Brazilian population cannot be distinguished either from Chironomus striatipennis or Chironomus kiiensis, configuring a species complex but, at the molecular level our studied population is placed in a clade together with Chironomus striatipennis, from South Korea. Bionomic characteristics of the Brazilian Chironomus population differ from the ones of Chironomus kiiensis from Japan, the only species in this species complex with bionomic information available. The Brazilian Chironomus population has a smaller size, the double of the number of eggs and inhabits oligotrophic water, in artificial container. In the molecular analysis, populations of Chironomus striatipennis and Chironomus kiiensis are placed in a clade, formed by two groups: Group A (which includes populations from both named species, from different Asiatic regions and our Brazilian population) and Group B (with populations of Chironomus kiiensis from Japan and South Korea). Genetic distance between the Brazilian population and specimens in Group A suggests that it was recently introduced in Brazil, and that its country of origin is probably South Korea.

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An Asiatic Chironomid in Brazil: morphology, DNA barcode and bionomics

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“…Low species richness of chironomid in artificial water bodies of urban areas have been recorded from South America than in rural areas (Hamerlík et al, 2011). Chironomid species such as C. striatipennis and C. circumdatus are common in both urban and rural areas (Guha et al, 1980;Chaudhuri et al, 1988;Al-Shami et al, 2010;Nandi et al, 2011). Their presence in those ecosystems provides a basis to consider these two species as indicator of the environmental states in both urban and rural context.…”

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Nutrient conditions and chironomid productivity in Kolkata, India: assessment for biomonitoring and ecological management

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Chironomid species in water bodies are useful indicators of the nutrient and environmental states. The relative abundance of chironomids and nutrients like organic carbon (C), potassium ions (K + ), nitrate (NO 3¯) , and phosphate (PO 4 2¯) of the water bodies were analyzed using numerical techniques such as Principal Component Analysis (PCA), Canonical Correspondence Analysis (CCA) and Cluster Analysis (CA) to justify the use of chironomids in environmental biomonitoring. The data analyses of 90 samples from eight different ponds Kolkata, India, revealed the presence of 12 chironomid species in different relative densities. The chironomid immature numbers per unit area was found to be positively correlated with C and PO 4 2¯, while no definite significant correlation was observed for K + or NO 3¯. The PCA yielded three components that could explain >63% of variation of the observed data. In terms of factor loadings, pH, K + , NO 3¯a nd PO 4 2¯ contributed to the first factor, while C, water temperature and dissolved O 2 contributed to the second factor. The CCA showed distribution of the chironomid species to differ against the variance of water quality parameters. The first canonical axis (λ 1 =0.156; F=5.126; P<0.05) explained 69% of species -environment relationship. The abundance of three species of chironomid midges, Chironomus striatipennis, C. circumdatus and Kiefferulus calligaster was prominent in all the water bodies. Cluster analysis showed that these species were highly correlated in their abundance contrast to remaining species. The results indicate that the water quality parameters influence the chironomid species assemblages to a considerable extent. This is supportive of the use of chironomid midges in biomonitoring for ecological management of urban water bodies of Kolkata, India and similar geographical areas.

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