Orthocladius nitidoscutellatus Lundstrom 1915
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Orthocladius nitidoscutellatus Lundström, 1915: 11
(Fig. 12)
Orthocladius trigonolabis Edwards, 1924: 170, syn. n.
Type material. Hypopygium of holotype ɗ, RUSSIA: West Taimyr peninsula, northern coast, Bonnevie Islands, 22 viii, 1901, A. A. Birula.
Although only the hypopygium remains, its very characteristic features leave no doubt about the synonymy. The nonhypopygial features described by Lundström are in agreement with the descriptions of O. (O.) trigonolabis by Soponis (1977: 96; from the lectotype) and Rossaro et al. (2003: 234).
It may be felt that Orthocladius nitidoscutellatus should be suppressed instead of being used as valid. However, according to the ICZN (1999) Code it does not fulfil any criteria for rejection, nor for reversal of precedence under Code Article 23.9. It also is unlikely that the nomenclature Commission would rule to invalidate the name, since the respective junior name has been used in too limited a number of papers.
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Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Family
- Chironomidae
- Genus
- Orthocladius
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Diptera
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Scientific name authorship
- Lundstrom
- Species
- nitidoscutellatus
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Orthocladius nitidoscutellatus Lundstrom, 1915 sec. Saether, 2004
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.
- Edwards, F. W. (1924) Results of the Merton College Expedition to Spitsbergen. Annals and Magazine of Natural History, (9) 14, 162 - 174.
- Soponis, A. R. (1977) A revision of the Nearctic species of Orthocladius (Orthocladius) van der Wulp (Diptera: Chironomidae). Memoirs of the Entomological Society of Canada, 102, 1 - 187.
- Rossaro, B., Lencioni, V. & Casalegno, C. (2003) Revision of West Palaearctic species of Orthocladius s. str. van der Wulp, 1874 (Diptera: Chironomidae: Orthocladiinae), with a new key to species. Studi Trentini di Science Naturali - Acta Biologica, 79, 213 - 241.
- ICZN (1999) International Code of Zoological Nomenclature. Fourth Edition. International Trust for Zoological Nomenclature, London, xxix + 306 pp.