Xenochironomus ceciliae (Diptera: Chironomidae), a new chironomid species inhabiting freshwater sponges in Brazil

Author： Oliveira Roque Fabio   Trivinho-Strixino Susana  

Publisher： Springer Publishing Company

ISSN： 0018-8158

Source： Hydrobiologia, Vol.534, Iss.1-3, 2005-02, pp. : 231-238

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Abstract

Chironomids living inside freshwater sponges are scarcely known, particularly in the Neotropical region where most of them are to be described. Here, male and female adults, pupa and 4th instar larva of Xenochironomus ceciliae sp. n., living in freshwater sponges of the Paraná River (Brazil) are described. The larval labrum with its several densely setose or combed structures somewhat resembling the filtering structures of simuliid larvae and the predominance of fine detritus in the larval gut contents, may indicate that the larvae of Xenochironomus ceciliae sp. n. are collector-filterers and they might be favored by the aquifer systems of the sponges.

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