New faunistic records of chironomids and phantom midges (Diptera, Chironomidae and Chaoboridae) from Ukraine indicate recent climatic refugia in the Eastern Carpathians Author Bitušík, Peter Faculty of Natural Sciences, Matej Bel University, Tajovského 40, SK- 974 01 Banská Bystrica, Slovakia Author Novikmec, Milan 0000-0002-5192-4575 Faculty of Ecology and Environmental Sciences, Technical University in Zvolen, T. G. Masaryka 24, SK- 960 53 Zvolen, Slovakia Author Svitok, Marek 0000-0003-2710-8102 Faculty of Ecology and Environmental Sciences, Technical University in Zvolen, T. G. Masaryka 24, SK- 960 53 Zvolen, Slovakia & Department of Forest Ecology, Faculty of Forestry and Wood Sciences, Czech University of Life Sciences Prague, Kamýcka 129, CZ- 165 21 Prague, Czech Republic Author Hamerlík, Ladislav Faculty of Natural Sciences, Matej Bel University, Tajovského 40, SK- 974 01 Banská Bystrica, Slovakia & Institute of Zoology, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Dúbravská cesta 9, SK- 845 06 Bratislava, Slovakia text ZooKeys 2024 2024-09-09 1211 349 367 journal article 10.3897/zookeys.1211.125436 E6BB88C5-5795-4E80-9888-82146DD4CE9C Eukiefferiella bedmari Vilchez-Quero & Laville, 1987 Material examined. 3 pupal exuvia, Latoricja River (S 4), 5 May 2018 . Distribution. Palaearctic. France , Spain , Greece , Corsica , Turkey , Lebanon , Algeria , and Morocco ( Ashe and O’Connor 2012 ). Habitat. Streams and rivers ( Laville and Langton 2002 ; Chaib et al. 2013 ; Moubayed-Breil and Ashe 2016 ). Remarks. E. bedmari is a circum-mediterranean faunistic element ( Laville and Reiss 1992 ; Moubayed-Breil 2008 ). Our unexpected extra-Mediterranean finding suggests the relict character of its population in the Carpathians (see comments to Cricotopus beckeri ).