Chironomus (Chironomus) atritibia Malloch
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Chironomus (Chironomus) atritibia Malloch
Chironomus (Chironomus) atritibia Malloch, 1934: 16.
Material examined. Lake Winnipeg light traps: 0.5 km off George Island, 1 male, 13.vii. 1969; Old Fishing Dock, 1 male, 18.viii. 1971; Calder’s Dock, 3 males, 26.viii. 1971.
Of the five males caught in light traps three are intersexes. The normal male has an AR of 4.08, 7 sensilla chaetica on p2 and 6 on p3. The male intersexes have female antennae, 38–54 sensilla chaetica on p2 and 42(1) sensilla chaetica on p3.
Distribution and ecology. The species was previously known from New York, Québec, Ontario, Northwest Territories, British Columbia and Washington (Townes 1945:131, Saether 1970: 7, Saether & McLean 1972: 11, Johnson & Brinkhurst 1971: 1696, Wiederholm 1976: 24, Oliver et al. 1990: 42). Martin (2012) mentions that most specimens listed by Townes (1945), other than the type, probably are C. cucini Webb.
The larva is of the C. salinarius type and characteristic for mesotrophic to moderately oligotrophic lakes (Saether 1975: 3130, Wiederholm 1976: 30). Although no larvae were found in bottom samples from Lake Winnipeg, the species is present in some areas of the northern basin and in the Narrows.
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Biodiversity
- Family
- Chironomidae
- Genus
- Chironomus
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Diptera
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Scientific name authorship
- Malloch
- Species
- atritibia
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- species
References
- Malloch, J. R. (1934) The exploration of Southampton Island, Hudson Bay, by George Miksch Sutton, sponsored by Mr. John Bonner Semple 1929 - 1930. Part II. Zoologie. Section 4. Spiders and insects (in part) of Southampton Island. III. Chironomidae, Sciaridae, Phoridae, Syrphidae, Piophilidae, Heleomyzidae, Calliphoridae, Oestridae, and Tachinidae. Memoirs of the Carnegie Museum, 12, pt. II, sect. 4, 13 - 32.
- Townes, H. K. (1945) The Nearctic species of Tendipedini (Diptera: Tendipedidae (= Chironomidae )). American Midland Naturalist, 34, 1 - 206.
- Saether, O. A. (1970) A survey of the bottom fauna in lakes of the Okanagan Valley, British Columbia. Technical Report of the Fisheries Research Board of Canada, 196, 1 - 41.
- Saether, O. A. & McLean, M. P. (1972) A survey of the bottom fauna in Wood, Kalamalka and Skaha Lakes in the Okanagan Valley, British Columbia. Technical Report of the Fisheries Research Board of Canada, 342, 1 - 20.
- Johnson, M. G. & Brinkhurst, R. O. (1971) Associations and species diversity in benthic macroinvertebrates of Bay of Quinte and Lake Ontario. Journal of the Fisheries Research Board of Canada, 28, 1683 - 1697.
- Wiederholm, T. (1976). A survey of the bottom fauna of Lake Sammamish. Northwest Science, 50, 23 - 28.
- Oliver, D. R., Dillon, M. E. & Cranston, P. S. (1990) A catalog of Nearctic Chironomidae. Research Branch Agriculture Canada Publication, 1857 / B, 89 pp.
- Martin, J. (2012) North American cytospecies of the genus Chironomus (includes Chaetolabis, Lobochironomus and some Einfeldia (s. l. )). http: // www. genetics. unimelb. edu. au / martin / NACytfiles / NAChiron. html. Accessed 11 March 2012.
- Saether, O. A. 1975. Nearctic chironomids as indicators of lake typology. Verhandlungen der Internationale Vereinigung fur Theoretische und Angewandte Limnologie, 19, 3127 - 3133.