Chironomus calipterus Kieffer, 1908

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

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.3897/afrinvertebr.65.111920

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:CD3A2816-4574-42F6-AF5D-442E232B4239

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.13306065

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/51F31BFC-E0DD-5872-8534-9E6E3E93977D

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African Invertebrates by Pensoft

scientific name

Chironomus calipterus Kieffer, 1908
status

 

Chironomus calipterus Kieffer, 1908 View in CoL

Fig. 10 C View Figure 10

Material examined.

Namibia • 67 ♂; OTJOZONDJUPA; Von Bach Dam Nature Reserve, Swakop river outflow ; 22 ° 0 ' 53.28 " S, 16 ° 57 ' 12.24 " E; 2–10 Dec. 2018; V. Baranov leg.; Malaise trap; NMNW GoogleMaps .

Distribution: The species is widely distributed in Namibia and rest of the Afrotropics as well as the southern Palaearctic ( Freeman 1957; Lindner 1976; Curtis 1991; Harrison 2004; Andersen and Mendes 2010).

NMNW

National Museum of Namibia

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Diptera

Family

Chironomidae

SubFamily

Chironominae

Tribe

Chironomini

Genus

Chironomus