Published April 29, 2024 | Version v1
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Dicrotendipes septemmaculatus

  • 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

Dicrotendipes septemmaculatus (Becker, 1908)

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Material examined.

Namibia • 5 ♂, 2 larvae; 2 pupae; KHOMAS; Windhoek, Arebbusch river, Goreangab Reservoir; S 22 ° 52 ' 90 " S; 17 ° 0 ' 3.6 " E; 3 Dec. 2018; G. M. Kwifte leg.; sweep net; NMNW; BOLD specimen code: NAM-Chiro 4; NAM 88; NAM 95; NAM 94; NAM 91; NAM 90; BOLD sequence ID: NAMOE 004-22; NAMCH 016-19; NAMCH 078-20; NAMCH 077-20; NAMCH 074-20; NAMCH 073-20; BOLD BIN: BOLD: ACK 4391 • 1 ♂; KHOMAS; Windhoek; 22 ° 36 ' 43.2 " S, 17 ° 5 ' 27.6 " E; 3 Dec. 2018; X. Lin leg.; light trap; SHOU; BOLD specimen code: NAM 76; BOLD sequence ID; NAMCH 015-19; BOLD BIN: BOLD: ADY 3994 • 1 ♀; HARDAP; Naukluft Mountain Zebra Park, Tufa waterfalls; 24 ° 15 ' 47.88 " S, 16 ° 13 ' 44.76 " E; 1 Dec. 2018; V. Baranov leg.; sweep net; NMNW; BOLD specimen code: NAM-Chiro 25; BOLD sequence ID: NAMOE 025-22; BOLD BIN: BOLD: ACK 4391 • 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 66; BOLD sequence ID: NAMCH 056-20; BOLD BIN: BOLD: ACK 4391.

Distribution.

This is the first record of the species from Namibia, otherwise recorded from numerous countries: Algeria, Australia, Democratic Republic of the Congo, China, Egypt, Bangladesh, India, Indonesia, Japan, Lebanon, Myanmar, Namibia, Nigeria, South Africa, Spain, Sudan, Uganda and Zimbabwe (Freeman 1956; Freeman and Cranston 1980; Curtis 1991; Harrison 2004; Qi et al. 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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  • 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
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