Orel O.V. 2024. Data on the chironomid fauna (Diptera, Chironomidae) of the mountain lakes of Cherskiy Ridge, Magadanskaya oblast of Russia // Euroasian Entomological Journal. Vol.23. No.1: 50–51 [in English].
Federal Scientific Center of the East Asia Terrestrial Biodiversity, Far East Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Prosp. 100-letiya Vladivostoka 159. Vladivostok 690022 Russia. E-mail: zorina@biosoil.ru; https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8924-6856.
doi 10.15298/euroasentj.23.01.12
ABSTRACT. Based on the materials of the expedition of the Institute of Biological Problems of the North, Far Eastern Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences (Magadan) (2020–2021), an annotated list of chironomines of lake-river systems of the southern part of the Chersky Ridge (Magadanskaya Oblast) is given. The fauna of non-biting midges of the subfamily Chironominae is represented by 39 species from 19 genera of 2 tribes. Species, Tanytarsus latens Gilka et al., 2018 and T. laponnicus Lindeberg, 1970, were first found in the Russian Federation. Omisus caledonicus (Edwards, 1932) was noted for the first time in the Russian Far East, previously known from Western Europe and the European part of Russia. Neozavrelia kedrovaya Orel, 2021 first record for the northeastern part of the Russian Far East. Fourteen species have been recorded for the fauna of the Magadanskaya Oblast for the first time. Holarctic species predominate (51.6 %), the rest of the species have Palaearctic distribution.
KEY WORDS: Diptera, Chironomidae, fauna, Сherskiy ridge, Magadanskaya Oblast.