a member of the Chironomidae, a family of nonbiting midges
adjective
2.
of or relating to this family
Word origin
C19: from New Latin chironomus, from Greek kheironomos a gesturer, from kheir hand + nomos manager + -id2
Examples of 'chironomid' in a sentence
chironomid
In total, more than 14,000 chironomid larvae were identified, belonging to 27 taxa.
Pol Tarrats, Miguel Cañedo-Argüelles, Maria Rieradevall, Narcís Prat 2016, 'Chironomid communities as indicators of local and global changes in an oligotrophichigh mountain lake (Enol Lake, Northwestern Spain)', Journal of Limnologyhttp://www.jlimnol.it/index.php/jlimnol/article/view/1590. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
This research shows that chironomid communities from these large lakes were sensitive to trophic conditions.
Barbara L. Hayford, Andrea M. Caires, Sudeep Chandra, Scott F. Girdner 2015, 'Patterns in Benthic Biodiversity Link Lake Trophic Status to Structure and PotentialFunction of Three Large, Deep Lakes', PLOS ONE10.1371/journal.pone.0117024. Retrieved from PLOS CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
The chironomid larvae were identified to the genus level.
SS. Morais, J. Molozzi, AL. Viana, TH. Viana, M. Callisto 2010, 'Diversity of larvae of littoral Chironomidae (Diptera: Insecta) and their role asbioindicators in urban reservoirs of different trophic levels Diversidade de larvasde Chironomidae (Diptera: Insecta) e seu papel como bioindicadores na região litorâneade reservatórios urbanos em diferentes níveis tróficos', Brazilian Journal of Biologyhttp://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1519-69842010000500011. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
Conversely, no pattern in chironomid species richness and turnover was observed.
Mauro Gobbi, Valeria Lencioni 2018, 'Do carabids (Coleoptera: Carabidae) and chironomids (Diptera: Chironomidae) exhibitsimilar diversity and distributional patterns along a spatio-temporal gradient ona glacier foreland?', Journal of Limnologyhttps://www.jlimnol.it/index.php/jlimnol/article/view/1794. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
Chironomid larvae were preferred by all gammarids tested.
Gerhard MAIER, Holger KRISP 2005, 'Consumption of macroinvertebrates by invasive and native gammarids: a comparison',Journal of Limnologyhttp://www.jlimnol.it/index.php/jlimnol/article/view/260. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
The chironomid species composition of hot springs differed from that of cold and tepid springs.
Agnes-Katharina Kreiling, Jón S. Ólafsson, Snæbjörn Pálsson, Bjarni K. Kristjánsson 2018, 'Chironomidae fauna of springs in Iceland: Assessing the ecological relevance behindTuxen's spring classification', Journal of Limnologyhttps://www.jlimnol.it/index.php/jlimnol/article/view/1754. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
The variables physical and chemical operate as environmental filters and thereby alter the chironomid community.
Rozane Maria Restello, Cristiane Biasi, Pedro Felipe Moutinho Bernardo de Moraes,Gabriella Gabriel, Luiz Ubiratan Hepp 2014, 'Composition and diversity of the Chironomidae in subtropical streams: effects of environmentalpredictors and temporal analysis', Acta Limnologica Brasiliensiahttp://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S2179-975X2014000200011&lng=en&tlng=en. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
A 53 cm long sediment core for chironomid analysis was obtained at 6 m depth.
H. Olander 1992, 'Subfossil chironomid stratigraphy of a small acid lake in southern Finland', Bulletin of the Geological Society of Finlandhttp://www.geologinenseura.fi/bulletin/Volume64/sgs_bt_064_2_pages_183_188.pdf. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)