The Aquatic Invertebrates of Texas |
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Diptera (Mosquitoes & Flies) |
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CHAOBORIDAE Chaoborus punctipennis (Say) |
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Distribution Citations
1953 Sublette 1967b Revill Stewart 1972 Hall FM
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1980 Darville & Harrel 1992 Miles 2002 Celik [ ] indicate state record, no specific county or locality indicated |
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notes: -larvae in soft sediment in deep water (Sublette 1953); because of vertical migrations, larvae are able to tolerate anoxia near bottom and can use dydrostatic cysts to extract oxygen from water with low oxygen concentrations(Cusak 1984) -presence indicates poor water quality (Cusak 1984) |
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