Axarus dorneri
Authors/Creators
- 1. Aquatic Invertebrate Research Group (AIRG), Museo de Peces de Agua Dulce e Invertebrados (MUPADI), Universidad Autónoma de Chiriquí (UNACHI), David, Panamá & Sistema Nacional de Investigación de Panamá (SNI), Panamá City, Panamá
- 2. Aquatic Invertebrate Research Group (AIRG), Museo de Peces de Agua Dulce e Invertebrados (MUPADI), Universidad Autónoma de Chiriquí (UNACHI), David, Panamá & Department of Natural History, University Museum of Bergen, University of Bergen, Norway
- 3. Aquatic Invertebrate Research Group (AIRG), Museo de Peces de Agua Dulce e Invertebrados (MUPADI), Universidad Autónoma de Chiriquí (UNACHI), David, Panamá & University of Gdańsk, Faculty of Biology, Department of Invertebrate Zoology and Parasitology, Laboratory of Systematic Zoology, Wita Stwosza 59, 80 - 308 Gdańsk, Poland
- 4. Aquatic Invertebrate Research Group (AIRG), Museo de Peces de Agua Dulce e Invertebrados (MUPADI), Universidad Autónoma de Chiriquí (UNACHI), David, Panamá
Description
Axarus dorneri (Malloch, 1915)
Malloch, 1915: 471 (Chironomus) [USA: Texas]; Townes (1945: 96 as Xenochironomus dorneri (Malloch) new combination), Spies & Reiss (1996: 74 as Chironomus dorneri Malloch, nomen dubium).
Material recorded. Panama, Panamá Oeste Province, Canal Zone, Barro Colorado Island, 1 male, 22 December 1928, leg C.H. Curran (Townes 1945). As previous except 2 males, 6 February–25 March 1986, light trap, leg H. Malicky, det. F. Reiss [ZSM] (M. Spies, pers. comm.).
Distribution in Neotropics. Panama.
Note. The species was described based on a female from Texas and was regarded as a nomen dubium by Spies & Reiss (1996). However, Townes (1945: 96) described a male as Xenochironomus dorneri (Malloch) based partly on a specimen from Barro Colorado Island, but he admits that he “can not be sure that the male and female described above are the same species or that either of them are Malloch’s dorneri. There seems to be a number of Neotropical species closely related to dorneri, but the material available is scanty. The male specimen described and figured above is the only available male that can possibly be Malloch’s dorneri.” Since Roback (1963a: 236) and Sublette (1966: 25) the species has generally been considered to be a member of Axarus. Following Townes (1945) we list the species as A. dorneri (Malloch). However, the material from Panama should be re-examined.
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Event date
- 1928-12-22 , 1986-02-06
- Verbatim event date
- 1928-12-22 , 1986-02-06
- Scientific name authorship
- Malloch
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Order
- Diptera
- Family
- Chironomidae
- Genus
- Axarus
- Species
- dorneri
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Axarus dorneri (Malloch, 1915) sec. Armitage, Andersen, Giłka, Sánchez, González & Aguirre, 2025
References
- Malloch, J. R. (1915) The Chironomidae, or midges, of Illinois, with particular reference to the species occurring in the Illinois River. Bulletin of the Illinois State Laboratory of Natural History, 10 (1 - 8), 275-543. https://doi.org/10.21900/j.inhs.v10.376
- Townes, H. K. (1945) The Nearctic species of Tendipedini (Diptera, Tendipedidae (= Chironomidae )). American Midland Naturalist, 34 (1), 1-206. https://doi.org/10.2307/2421112
- Spies, M. & Reiss, F. (1996) Catalog and bibliography of Neotropical and Mexican Chironomidae (Insecta, Diptera). Spixiana, Supplement 22, 61-119. [https://www.zobodat.at/pdf/SpixSupp_022_0061-0119.pdf]
- Roback, S. S. (1963 a) The genus Xenochironomus (Diptera: Tendipedidae) Kieffer, taxonomy and immature stages. Transactions of the American Entomological Society, 88, 235-245.
- Sublette, J. E. (1966) Type specimens of Chironomidae (Diptera) in the American Museum of Natural History. Journal of the Kansas Entomological Society, 39 (1), 1-32. [https://www.jstor.org/stable/25083484]