Psectrocladius cf. schlienzi Wülker, 1956

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, African Invertebrates 65 (1), pp. 13-36 : 13-36

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.