The Aquatic Invertebrates of Texas

Diptera

(Mosquitoes & Flies)

CHAOBORIDAE

Chaoborus punctipennis (Say)




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Distribution Citations

1953 Sublette
1955 Sublette

1967b Revill Stewart
           Schlichting

1972 Hall FM
1973 Harrel
1975 Cox
1975 Riley
1976 Harrel & Duplechin
1977 Kost
1977 Oliphant
1977 Sala Gibson Harrel
1978 Cover & Harrel
1978 Darville

 

1980 Darville & Harrel
1982 Barra Whiteside Short
1983 Barclay
1983 Bass & Sweet
[1983 Stone et al.]
1984 Cusak
1985 Barclay & Harrel
1985 Harrel ECOS
1988 Howard

1992 Miles

2002 Celik

[ ] indicate state record, no specific county or locality indicated

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)

copyright:   Stephen W. Ziser    
                          2010

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