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HABITAT:
DESCRIPTION:
- Chironomides
are found in most types of water bodies including intertidal rock pools
and coral reefs
- Moist soils,
phytotelmata, and dung
- Streams,
rivers, lakes, ponds
- Larvae
are found in rock, gravel, finer sediments, sand and silt
- (Williams
et al., 1992 pg 94-97)
- They are
substrate dwellers living in a wide variety of habitats (http://www.biology.eku.edu/SCHUSTER/bio%20806/diptera.htm)
DISTRIBUTION:
- Northern
and Southern limits of land, dominant in Arctic
- (Williams
et al., 1992 pg 94)
- Includes
over 100 genera and over 2000 species (http://www.biology.eku.edu/SCHUSTER/bio%20806/diptera.htm)
SPECIMEN:
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