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Chironomus

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Chironomus sp.

Chironomus " polaris Holmgr. " sensu Lundström (1915: 6).

Holmgren (1869: 46) had described males and females from Spitzbergen he had identified as Chironomus polaris Kirby, 1824. Lundström (1915) stated that Holmgren had hardly ("vix") identified C. polaris Kirby correctly. However, Lundström apparently thought possibly after a comparison with Holmgren material that one of the Siberian specimens he was studying was conspecific with Holmgren's.

The single male described by Lundström could not be located for the present study. The name under which it was treated, Chironomus " polaris Holmgren ", is not separately available under ICZN rules. If instead a separate " C. polaris " were considered available from Lundström (1915), this name would be permanently invalid as a junior primary homonym of both C. polaris Kirby and C. polaris Boheman, 1856. To clarify the biological identity of the species, Lundström's missing specimen and those of Holmgren's (at least any seen by Lundström) would have to be compared to the type of C. polaris Kirby (at BMNH) and possibly also to C. hyperboreus Staeger, 1845 which Holmgren (1869) had considered a junior synonym of the former. Lindeberg & Wiederholm (1979: 102/103) after having seen "all that is left of C. polaris " (? = the specimen at BMNH?) claim that it is "not the type ".

Notes

Published as part of Saether, Ole A., 2004, The chironomids (Diptera, Chironomidae) described by Lundström (1915) from arctic Siberia, with a redescription of Derotanypus sibiricus (Kruglova & Chernovskii), pp. 1-35 in Zootaxa 595 on page 6, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.157906

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http://treatment.plazi.org/id/125B084CFFD9FFE192612471DDDEF33D

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Journal article: 10.5281/zenodo.157906 (DOI)
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https://sibils.text-analytics.ch/search/collections/plazi/125B084CFFD9FFE192612471DDDEF33D (URL)
https://www.gbif.org/species/119605819 (URL)
https://www.checklistbank.org/dataset/41688/taxon/125B084CFFD9FFE192612471DDDEF33D.taxon (URL)

Biodiversity

Family
Chironomidae
Genus
Chironomus
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Diptera
Phylum
Arthropoda
Taxon rank
genus

References

  • Lundstrom, C. (1915) Resultats scientifiques de lExpedition Polaire Russe en 1900 - 1903, sous la direction du Baron E. Toll. Section E: Zoologie. Volume II, livr. 8. Diptera Nematocera aus den arctischen Gegenden Sibiriens. Memoires de lAcademie Imperiale des Sciences, Classe Physico-Mathematique, VIII Serie, 29 (8), 1 - 33.
  • Holmgren, A. E. (1869) Bidrag til Kannedomen om Beeren Eilands och Spetzbergens Insekt-Fauna. Kungliga Svenska Vetenskapsakademiens Handlingar, 8, 1 - 55.
  • Kirby, W. (1824) Land invertebrate animals. In: Parry, W. E. A supplement to the appendix of Captain Parrys voyage for the discovery of a North-West Passage, in the years 1819 - 1820. Containing an account of the subjects of natural history. London, pp. ccxiv - ccxix.
  • Boheman, C. H. (1856) Spetsbergens Insekt-Fauna. Ofversigt af Kungliga Svenska Vetenskapsakademiens Forhandlingar, 22, 563 - 577.
  • Lindeberg, B. & Wiederholm, T. (1979) Notes on the taxonomy of European species of Chironomus (Diptera: Chironomidae). Entomologica scandinavica Supplement, 10, 99 - 116.