Systematic studies on the species of Chironomidae recorded from Japan during the period from September 1997 to August 2000

摘要

The number of species of insect family Chironomidae breeding in Japan is very large, and more than one thousand species have already been recorded from this small country, including many new species. In the Monograph of Chironomidae by Sasa and Kikuchi (1995), a total of 757 species was recorded, among which only 131 were those already recorded from Europe, Americas, and other regions outside of Japan and East Asia, and in another monograph compiled by Sasa (1998), 176 species were added. In the present paper, additional 241 species recorded from Japan in 20 papers published as of July 2000 are recorded by according to taxonomic groups making the total number of Chironomidae of Japan 1,174.