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Corynoneura scutellata Winnertz

Description

Corynoneura scutellata Winnertz

Corynoneura scutellata Winnertz, 1846: 13; Boesel and Winner 1980: 502; Hirvenoja and Hirvenoja 1988: 217; Schlee 1968b: 40.

Material examined: P. R. CHINA: Fujian Province, Liancheng County, Guanzhi Mountain, 25°43'N, 116°45'E, alt. 660 m, sweep net, 1 male, 4.v.1993, Xinhua Wang; Yunnan Province, Lijiang County, Heilongtan, 26°52'N, 100°15'E, alt. 2.400 m, sweep net, 1 male, 28.v.1996, Xinhua Wang; Tianjin City, Ji County, 40°3'N, 117°24'E, alt. 857 m, sweep net, 1 male, 15.ix.1987, Xinhua Wang; Tianjin City, Nankai University, 39°8'N, 117°12'E, alt. 2–5 m, sweep net, 6 males, 20.iv.1986, Xinhua Wang.

Diagnostic characters. Total length 1.07–1.82, 1.50 mm. Wing length 0.85–1.25, 1.03 mm. Antenna with 10 flagellomeres; apically acute; AR 0.74–1.1, 0.82. Posterior margin of tergite IX bilobed. Inferior volsella digitiform, with small inner lobe in middle part. Sternapodeme inverted V-shaped, attachment point with phallapodeme placed in caudal third of lateral sternapodeme and directed caudally, phallapodeme strongly curved with projection for joint with sternapodeme placed pre-lateral. Gonostylus curved apically.

Remarks. Winnertz (1846) established this species based on specimens from Poland. Hirvenoja and Hirvenoja (1988) redescribed the male, pupa and larva in detail. Schlee (1968b) redescribed the male based on specimens from Germany. Wang (2000: 635) listed this species from Liaoning Province, China.

Distribution. Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Croatia, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Germany, Great Britain, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, Macedonia, Moldova, Norway, Poland, Romania, Russia including Novaya Zemlya and The Far East, Slovakia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, The Netherlands, Turkey; Near East; Greenland, Canada, USA; Australia; Chile; Japan, Russian Far East and Tianjin, Fujian, and Yunnan Provinces, China. (Oliver et al. 1990, Saether & Spies 2004). The species thus is recorded from all zoogeographical regions except the Afrotropical.

Notes

Published as part of Fu, Yue, Saether, Ole A. & Wang, Xinhua, 2009, Corynoneura Winnertz from East Asia, with a systematic review of the genus (Diptera: Chironomidae: Orthocladiinae), pp. 1-44 in Zootaxa 2287 on pages 30-31, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.191288

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Family
Chironomidae
Genus
Corynoneura
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Diptera
Phylum
Arthropoda
Scientific name authorship
Winnertz
Species
scutellata
Taxon rank
species

References

  • Winnertz, J. (1846) Beschreibung einiger neuer Gattungen aus der Ordnung der Zweiflugler. - Stettiner entomologische Zeitung, 7, 11 - 20.
  • Boesel, M. W. & Winner, R. W. (1980) Corynoneurinae of Northeastern United States, with a key to adults and observations on their occurrence in Ohio (Diptera: Chironomidae) Journal of the Kansas entomological Society, 53 (3), 501 - 508.
  • Hirvenoja, M. & Hirvenoja, E. (1988) Corynoneura brundini spec. nov. Ein Beitrag zur Systematik der Gattung Corynoneura (Diptera, Chironomidae). Spixiana, Supplement, 14, 213 - 238.
  • Schlee, D. (1968 b) Vergleichende Merkmalsanalyse zur Morphologie und Phylogenie der Corynoneura- Gruppe (Diptera: Chironomidae). Zugleich eine allgemeine Morphologie der Chironomiden-Image (3). Stuttgarter Beitrage zur Naturkunde, 180, 1 - 150.
  • Wang, X. (2000) A revised checklist of Chironomidae from China (Diptera). In: Hoffrichter, O. (Ed.), Late 20 th century research on Chironomidae. An anthology from the 13 th international symposium on Chironomidae. Shaker Verlag, Achen, pp. 629 - 652.
  • Oliver, D. R., Dillon, M. E. & Cranston, P. S. (1990) A catalog of Nearctic Chironomidae. Research Branch Agriculture Canada, Publication, 1857 / B, 1 - 89.
  • Saether, O. A. & Spies, M. (2004) Fauna Europaea: Chironomidae. Fauna Europaea version 1.1. Available from: htpp: // www. faunaeur. org. (1 May 2009).