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Metriocnemus longipennis Holmgren

Description

Metriocnemus longipennis (Holmgren)

Smittia longipennis Holmgren, 1883: 18.

Dolichoprymna longipennis Holmgr. sensu Lundström (1915: 21).

The male imago of M. longipennis has been redescribed by Saether (1989: 421). Saether (1995: 45) has redescribed the Lundström material, including the female (3 specimens), and established the above synonymy. Dolichoprymna Lundström, 1915 (type species by original designation and monotypy: D. longipennis) has thus become a junior synonym of Metriocnemus van der Wulp, 1874.

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 24, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.157906

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Family
Chironomidae
Genus
Metriocnemus
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Diptera
Phylum
Arthropoda
Scientific name authorship
Holmgren
Species
longipennis
Taxon rank
species

References

  • Holmgren, A. E. (1883) Insecta a viris doctissimus Nordenskiold illun ducem sequentibus in insulis Waigatsch et Novaja Semlia anno 1875 collecta. Diptera. Entomologisk Tidskrift, 4, 162 - 190.
  • 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.
  • Saether, O. A. (1989) Metriocnemus van der Wulp: a new species and a revision of species described by Meigen, Zetterstedt, Staeger, Holmgren, Lundstrom and Strenzke. (Diptera: Chironomidae). Entomologica scandinavica, 19, 393 - 430.
  • Saether, O. A. (1995) Metriocnemus van der Wulp: Seven new species, revision of species, and new records (Diptera: Chironomidae). Annales de Limnologie. 31, 35 - 64.