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- proper noun A taxonomic
genus within thetribe Chironomini — some of the non-bitingmidges .
Etymologies
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Examples
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At any rate, the earliest form of limb must have been that of a soft tubercle armed with one, or two, or many terminal claws, as seen in aquatic larvæ, such as Chironomus (Fig. 202), Ephydra (Fig. 203 _a_, _b_, _c_, pupa) and many others.
Our Common Insects A Popular Account of the Insects of Our Fields, Forests, Gardens and Houses 1872
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Three of those samples contained live larvae of the midge Chironomus salinarius.
Archive 2007-04-01 AYDIN 2007
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Three of those samples contained live larvae of the midge Chironomus salinarius.
A shitty way to get dispersed AYDIN 2007
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Serious problems of contamination have not been encountered, although occasional infestation of the culture with Brachionus and Chironomus larvae were observed during certain seasons.
Chapter 13 1979
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We are not told of nostoc, this time: it is said that the object contained numerous eggs of "some species of Chironomus, from which larvae soon emerged."
The Book of the Damned Charles Fort
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It is the pupa, and not the larva, of the Chironomus which has this power; and Grimm further shows that this case, to a certain extent, unites that of the Cecidomyia with the parthenogenesis of the Coccidæ, the term parthenogenesis implying that the mature females of the Coccidæ are capable of producing fertile eggs without the concourse of the males.
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But already Grimm has shown that another fly, a Chironomus, reproduces itself in nearly the same manner, and he believes that this occurs frequently in the Order.
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Certain animals belonging to several classes are now known to have the power of ordinary reproduction at an unusually early age; and we have only to accelerate parthenogenetic production by gradual steps to an earlier and earlier age, Chironomus showing us an almost exactly intermediate stage, viz., that of the pupaand we can perhaps account for the marvellous case of the Cecidomyia.
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Chironomus and Simulium for example, breathe dissolved air by means of tufts of thread-like gills, which arise on either side of the prothorax.
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Chironomus, in the thoracic region of the legless maggot, which is the larva of an insect of this family, and the imaginal discs for eyes and feelers (fig. 11 _e_, _f_) lie just in front of it.
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