Chironomidae (Insecta, Diptera) from Hungary 2. New records of Lipiniella moderata Kalugina, 1970 Kaiman Bird Birö, K. (2000): Chironomidae (Insecta, Diptera) from Hungary 2. New records of Lipiniella moderata Kalugina, 1970. -In Baehr, M. & M. Spies (eds): Contributions to chironomid research in memory of Dr. Friedrich Reiss. -Spixiana 23/2: 157-158. Larvae of Lipiniella moderata Kalugina have been collected for the first time in Hungary and Yugoslavia. A summary is given of the western European distribu-tion of the genus. Kaiman Birö, Zehntenstrasse 10, CH-4133 Pratteln, Switzerland. The genus Lipiniella Shilova, 1961 is reportedly distributed across the Palaearctic region and in Canada, the larvae occur on sandy Sediments in the litoral of lakes, in lentic habitats and the potamal of rivers, and in estuaries (Finder & Reiss 1983, Becker 1995). Two of the four described species have been recorded in Europe: L. araenicola Shilova, 1961 from ?Norway (Schnell & Aagaard 1996), The Netherlands (e.g. Smit et al. 1993), France (Laville & Serra-Tosio 1996), and Germany (Becker 1995); and L. moderata Kalugina, 1970 from Norway (Schnell & Aagaard 1996) and The Netherlands (Klink et al. 1995). Material (slide mounted in Euparal; leg. + in coli. K. Birö). 1 larva, Hungary, Szigetköz, Old-Danube river near Dunaremete, in sandy mud, 2.XI.1998; 1 larva, Yugoslavia, Pancevo, canal at oil refinery, in mud, 25.VIII.1999. These are the first records of L. moderata from Hungary and the Carpathian basin, and the southernmost of any Lipiniella from Europe. The species determinations are based on a combination of larval features so far described in the genus only from L. moderata Kalugina: an extensive frontoclypeus depression with granulär surface; a premandible with 5 teeth plus another, more proximal knob (Fig. 1); and abdominal segment VIII with postero-ventral tubules about as long as the anal tubules (see Kiknadze et al. 1989, Kiknadze et al. 1991, Shilova et al. 1993, Shilova & Proviz 1997). Acknowledgement I am grateful to VITUKl (Budapest) for supporhng my work. References Becker, C. 1995. Ein Beitrag zur Zuckmückenfauna des Rheins (Diptera: Cliironomidae). -Doctoral Diss. Univ. Bonn (Germany), Verlag Shaker, Aachen, v+265 pp. Kiknadze, I. I., I. E. Kerkis, A. I Shilova & M. A. Filippova 1989. A review of the species of the genus Lipiniella Shilova (Diptera), L. arenicola [sie!] Shil. and L. moderata Kalug. -Acta Biol. Debr. Oecol. Hung. 2: 115-128 — , A. I Shilova, I. E. Kerkis, N. D. Shobanov, N. I. Zelentsov, L. P. Grebenyuk, A. G. Istomina & V. A. Prasolov 1991. Kariotipy i morfologija lichinok triby Chironomini. Atlas. -Nauka, Sib. Otdel., Novosibirsk, 115 pp. (in Russian) 157
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