INSTAR DIFFERENTIATION IN LARVAL CHIRONOMIDAE (DIPTERA)
- 1 February 1974
- journal article
- Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) in The Canadian Entomologist
- Vol. 106 (2), 179-200
- https://doi.org/10.4039/ent106179-2
Abstract
Examination of the most commonly used criteria for separating instars in larval chironomids, based on a study of 29 species from three subfamilies in Marion Lake, British Columbia, revealed that only head capsule width or length is suitable. Most chironomids appear to have four larval instars.Keywords
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