Published April 29, 2024 | Version v1
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Psectrocladius schlienzi Wulker 1956

  • 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

Psectrocladius cf. schlienzi Wülker, 1956

Material examined.

Namibia • 1 ♂; OTJOZONDJUPA; Gross Barmen; 22 ° 6 ' 38.16 " S, 16 ° 44 ' 42 " E; 4 Dec. 2018; X. Lin leg.; sweep net; SHOU; BOLD specimen code: NAM 65; BOLD sequence ID: NAMCH 055-20; BOLD BIN: BOLD: ACK 4896.

Distribution.

This is the first record of the species from Namibia, but numerous representatives of the same BIN were previously recorded from South Africa (BOLD: ACK 4896, Freeman 1956; Freeman and Cranston 1980; Curtis 1991; Harrison 2004; Ashe and O’Connor 2012). It is worth noting that this species is otherwise distributed in the Palaearctic (Austria, Denmark, Finland, Germany, United Kingdom, Italy, Moldova, Mongolia, Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Slovakia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland) (Ashe and O’Connor 2012). It is, therefore, worth considering that the specimen that we have found belongs to a yet undescribed species of Psectrocladius related to P. schlienzi. More material is needed before we can test this hypothesis.

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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Additional details

Biodiversity

Collection code
BOLD
Material sample ID
NAM 65, NAMCH 055-20, ACK 4896
Event date
2018-12-04
Verbatim event date
2018-12-04
Scientific name authorship
Wulker
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Order
Diptera
Family
Chironomidae
Genus
Psectrocladius
Species
schlienzi
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Psectrocladius schlienzi Wulker, 1956 sec. Baranov, Lin, Hübner & Chimeno, 2024

References

  • Freeman P (1956) A study of the Chironomidae (Diptera) of Africa south of the Sahara. Part II. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History). Entomology 4: 285–368.
  • Freeman P, Cranston P (1980) Family Chironomidae. Catalogue of the Diptera of the Afrotropical Region. British Museum (Natural History), London: 175–202. Ghonaim, M., Ali, A., & Amer, M. (2005). Cladotanytarsus (Diptera: Chironomidae) from Egypt with description of a new species. Oriental Insects 39 (1): 323–329. https://doi.org/10.1080/00305316.2005.10417443
  • Curtis B (1991) Freshwater macro-invertebrates of Namibia. Madoqua 1991: 163–187.
  • Harrison A (2004) The non-biting midges (Diptera: Chironomidae) of South Africa. University of Waterloo, Canada. http://www.ru.ac.za/academic/departments/zooento/Martin/chironomidae
  • Ashe P, O'Connor JP (2012) A world catalogue of Chironomidae (Díptera). Part 2. Orthocladiinae. Two volumes (Sections A, B). Irish Biogeographical Society, Dublin, [14] + [xvi +] 468 pp., [6] + 500 pp.