Smittia pratorum
Authors/Creators
- 1. Leibniz Institute of Freshwater Ecology and Inland Fisheries, Berlin, Germany. & Humboldt University of Berlin, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, Geography Department, Berlin, Germany. E-mail: baranov @ igb-berlin. de
- 2. Department of Zoology, Institute of Biology, University of Kassel, Kassel, Germany. & Department of Natural History, University Museum of Bergen, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway.
Description
Smittia pratorum (Goetghebuer, 1927)
Locality: Spain, Mallorca, Esporles, Torrent de San Vic, 39.670459 oN, 2.569193 oE, 1♂, 10 February 2015, stream edges; Cala Figuera, 39.330871 oN, 3.165476 oE, 2♂♂, 1♀, 10 February 2015, forest glade in front of hotel; Banyalbufar, 39.690612 oN, 2.525107 oE, 1♂, 09 February 2015, shaded ditch between Banyalbufar and Esporles.
Distribution: Widely distributed in the Holarctic region; occurring in Oriental China, and possibly also in Argentina in the Neotropical region. In Spain, the species was previously recorded in the Sierra Nevada (Ashe and O’Connor 2012, Spies and Saether 2013). New to Balearic Islands (Ashe and O’Connor 2012, Spies and Saether 2013, Soriano et al. 1997).
Remarks: The male collected at Banyalbufar exhibits a curious abnormality in the development of the anal point as the apex of the anal point is bifurcate and Y-shaped (Fig. 2). We have not found similar examples in the literature, but a wide variety of other developmental abnormalities resulting from parasites or gene or chromosomal mutations have been thoroughly documented (see Rempel 1940; Martin and Lee 2000).
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Event date
- 2015-02-09
- Verbatim event date
- 2015-02-09/10
- Scientific name authorship
- Goetghebuer
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Order
- Diptera
- Family
- Chironomidae
- Genus
- Smittia
- Species
- pratorum
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Smittia pratorum (Goetghebuer, 1927) sec. Baranov & Kvifte, 2016
References
- Ashe, P. and O'Connor, J. P. 2012. A world catalogue of Chironomidae (Diptera). Part 2. Orthocladiinae. Irish Biogeographical Society, Dublin. xvi + 968 p.
- Spies, M. and Saether, O. A. 2013. Fauna Europaea: Chironomidae. In Beuk, P. and Pape, T. (Eds.) Fauna Europaea: Diptera Nematocera. Fauna Europaea version 2.6, http: // www. fauna-eu. org [Accessed 25 March 2016]
- Soriano, O., Cobo, F., Rieradevall, M. Y. Prat, N. 1997. Lista faunistica y bibliografica de los quironomidos (Diptera, Chironomidae) de la Peninsula Iberica e Islas Baleares. Asociacion Espanola de Limnologia, Madrid. 210 p.
- Rempel, J. G. 1940. Intersexuality in Chironomidae induced by nematode parasitism. - Journal of Experimental Zoology 84: 261 - 289.
- Martin, J. and Lee, B. T. O. 2000. Sex determination in Chironomus and the Drosophila paradigm. In Hoffrichter, O. (Ed.) Late 20 th Century Research on Chironomidae. Shaker Verlag, Aachen, Germany, pp. 177 - 181.