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Chironomus (Chironomus) staegeri Lundbeck

Description

Chironomus (Chironomus) staegeri (Lundbeck)

Chironomus staegeri Lundbeck, 1898: 271.

Material examined. Lake Winnipeg light trap: 4 km off Grand Rapids, 1 male, 8.vi. 1969.

The single specimen found has an AR of 5.00, 19 sensilla chaetica on p2 and 13 sensilla chaetica on p3.

Distribution and ecology. The species is known from deep natural lakes as well as shallow permanent pools of northeastern and central United States, northern, eastern and central Canada and from Greenland, Finland and the Russian Far East. It occurs south to Alabama and west to California, but is not common in the west (Wülker et al. 1971: 21, Oliver et al. 1990: 43, Saether & Spies 2011, Martin 2012).

Notes

Published as part of Saether, Ole A., 2012, The Chironomus group (Diptera: Chironomidae) in Lake Winnipeg, Canada, pp. 1-19 in Zootaxa 3275 on page 13, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.280836

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Family
Chironomidae
Genus
Chironomus
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Diptera
Phylum
Arthropoda
Scientific name authorship
Lundbeck
Species
staegeri
Taxon rank
species

References

  • Wulker, W., Sublette, J. E., Sublette, M. F. & Martin, J. (1971) A review of the genus Chironomus (Diptera, Chironomidae). I. The staegeri group. Studies in Natural Sciences, Portales, New Mexico, 1 (1), 1 - 89.
  • Oliver, D. R., Dillon, M. E. & Cranston, P. S. (1990) A catalog of Nearctic Chironomidae. Research Branch Agriculture Canada Publication, 1857 / B, 89 pp.
  • Saether, O. A. & Spies, M. (2011) Fauna Europaea: Chironomidae. Fauna Europaea version 2.4. Available from: htpp: // www. faunaeur. org. (accessed 27 January 2011).
  • 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.