Published April 29, 2024 | Version v1
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Cricotopus flavozonatus Freeman 1953

  • 1. Estación Biológica de Doñana-CSIC / Doñana Biological Station-CSIC, Seville, Spain
  • 2. Engineering Research Center of Environmental DNA and Ecological Water Health Assessment, Shanghai Ocean University, Shanghai 201306, China
  • 3. Bavarian State Collection of Zoology (SNSB-ZSM), Munich, Germany

Description

Cricotopus flavozonatus Freeman, 1953 a

Fig. 4 D, E

Material examined.

Namibia • several hundred ♂ ♀; HARDAP; Naukluft Mountain Zebra Park, Tufa waterfalls; 24 ° 15 ' 47.88 " S, 16 ° 13 ' 44.76 " E; 1–5 Dec. 2018; G. M. Kvifte / V. Baranov / X. Lin leg.; sweep net; NMNW; SHOU; BOLD specimen code: NAM 14, NAM 04, NAM 13, NAM 12; BOLD sequence ID: NAMCH 024-20, NAMCH 023-20, NAMCH 017-20, NAMCH 006-19; BOLD BIN: BOLD: ACG 906 • 1 ♂ 2 ♀; KHOMAS; Windhoek; 22 ° 36 ' 43.2 " S, 17 ° 5 ' 27.6 " E; 1 Dec. 2018; G. M. Kvifte / V. Baranov / X. Lin leg.; NMNW; BOLD specimen code: NAM-Chiro 31, NAM-Chiro 32; BOLD sequence ID: NAMOE 031-22, NAMOE 032-22; BOLD BIN: BOLD: ACG 9062.

Distribution.

This is the first record of the species from Namibia. Cricotopus flavozonatus was previously recorded from Ethiopia, Uganda, South Africa, and Zimbabwe (Freeman 1956; Freeman and Cranston 1980; Curtis 1991; Harrison 2004; Ashe and O’Connor 2012).

Notes

Published as part of Baranov, Viktor, Lin, Xiaolong, Hübner, Jeremy & Chimeno, Caroline, 2024, Uncovering the hidden diversity of non-biting midges (Diptera, Chironomidae) from central Namibia, using morphology and DNA barcodes, pp. 13-36 in African Invertebrates 65 (1) on pages 13-36, DOI: 10.3897/afrinvertebr.65.111920

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References

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