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Glyptotendipes (Caulochironomus) dreisbachi Townes

Description

Glyptotendipes (Caulochironomus) dreisbachi Townes

Material examined. CANADA: Manitoba, Lake Winnipeg, Matheson Island Government Wharf, 1 male, 5.vi. 1969; Old Fishing Dock, 2 males, 21.vii. & 11.viii.1971; Hecla Island, 51 males, 27.vii. & 11.viii. 1971.

The male imagines have 9–18, 25 (5) sensilla chaetica on ta1 of p2 at 0.1–0.7; no sensilla chaetica on ta1 of p3.

Distribution and ecology. The species was previously known from Northwest Territories, Saskatchewan, Ontario and Michigan (Townes 1945: 146, Oliver et al. 1990: 47) where it is a burrower in the stems of several species of Potamogeton (Townes 1945: 146).

Notes

Published as part of Saether, Ole A., 2011, Glyptotendipes Kieffer and Demeijerea Kruseman from Lake Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, with the description of four new species (Diptera: Chironomidae), pp. 39-52 in Zootaxa 2760 on page 50, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.203816

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Family
Chironomidae
Genus
Glyptotendipes
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Diptera
Phylum
Arthropoda
Scientific name authorship
Townes
Species
dreisbachi
Taxon rank
species

References

  • Townes, H. K. (1945) The Nearctic species of Tendipedini (Diptera, Tendipedidae (= Chironomidae )). American Midland Naturalist, 34, 1 - 206.
  • Oliver, D. R., Dillon, M. E. and Cranston, P. S. (1990) A catalog of Nearctic Chironomidae. Research Branch Agriculture Canada Publication, 1857 / B, 89 pp.