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Chironomus (Chironomus) anthracinus Zetterstedt

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Chironomus (Chironomus) anthracinus Zetterstedt

Chironomus anthracinus Zetterstedt, 1860: 6499.

Material examined. Lake Winnipeg light traps: 2 km off Selkirk (Horse) Island, 2 males, 7.vi. 1969. The Lake Winnipeg males have an AR of 4.90–4.95(2), 15–17(2) sensilla chaetica in apical half of ta1 of p2 and 12–14(2) in apical half of ta1 of p3.

Distribution and ecology. The species is widely distributed in the Holarctic region, In North America it is known from British Columbia, Alberta, Sakatchewan, Manitoba, Ontario, Wisconsin, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New York and California (Saether 1975 fig. 1, Oliver et al. 1990: 42, Saether & Spies 2011, Martin 2012). In North America the species appears to be more common in mesotrophic to moderately oligotrophic lakes, while in Europe it is the character-form of the profundal zone of moderately eutrophic lakes (Saether 1975: 3127). No larvae were caught in the bottom samples.

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Published as part of Saether, Ole A., 2012, The Chironomus group (Diptera: Chironomidae) in Lake Winnipeg, Canada, pp. 1-19 in Zootaxa 3275 on page 3, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.280836

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Biodiversity

Scientific name authorship
Zetterstedt
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Order
Diptera
Family
Chironomidae
Genus
Chironomus
Species
anthracinus
Taxon rank
species

References

  • Zetterstedt, J. W. (1860) Diptera Scandinaviae disposita et descripta. Tomus decimus quartus seu ultimus, continens addenda, corrigena & emendada tomis prioribus, una cum indice alphabetico navarum specierum hujus & praecedentis tomi, atque generico omnium tomorum. Lundae, 14, 6497 - 6512.
  • Saether, O. A. 1975. Nearctic chironomids as indicators of lake typology. Verhandlungen der Internationale Vereinigung fur Theoretische und Angewandte Limnologie, 19, 3127 - 3133.
  • Oliver, D. R., Dillon, M. E. & Cranston, P. S. (1990) A catalog of Nearctic Chironomidae. Research Branch Agriculture Canada Publication, 1857 / B, 89 pp.
  • Saether, O. A. & Spies, M. (2011) Fauna Europaea: Chironomidae. Fauna Europaea version 2.4. Available from: htpp: // www. faunaeur. org. (accessed 27 January 2011).
  • Martin, J. (2012) North American cytospecies of the genus Chironomus (includes Chaetolabis, Lobochironomus and some Einfeldia (s. l. )). http: // www. genetics. unimelb. edu. au / martin / NACytfiles / NAChiron. html. Accessed 11 March 2012.