Corynoneura edwardsi Brundin

Fu, Yue, Saether, Ole A. & Wang, Xinhua, 2009, Corynoneura Winnertz from East Asia, with a systematic review of the genus (Diptera: Chironomidae: Orthocladiinae), Zootaxa 2287, pp. 1-44 : 9-10

Corynoneura edwardsi Brundin

Corynoneura edwardsi Brundin, 1949: 698 ; Hirvenoja and Hirvenoja 1988: 217; Sasa 1997: 49; Schlee 1968b: 31.

Material examined: P. R. CHINA: Xinjiang Province: Aketao County: Kalakuli Lake 39°8'N, 75°56'E, alt. 4.000 m, sweep net, 1 male, 19.viii.2002, Hongqu Tang; Xinjiang Province, Fukang County, Tianchi Lake, 44°8'N, 87°56'E, alt. 1.980 m, sweep net, 1 male, 1.ix.2002, Hongqu Tang.

Diagnostic characters. Total length 1.47–1.76, 1.60 mm. Wing length 1.15–1.25, 1.2 mm. Antenna with 10 flagellomeres; AR 0.94–1.0, 0.97. Apex of hind tibia with one nearly straight seta near spur. Posterior margin of tergite IX weakly bilobed. Inferior volsella absent, sternapodeme inverted V-shaped, attachment point with phallapodeme placed in caudal third of lateral sternapodeme and directed caudally; phallapodeme strongly curved with projection for joint with sternapodeme placed pre-lateral. Gonostylus curved apically, subapical slender.

Remarks. Hirvenoja and Hirvenoja (1988) redescribed the male, pupa and larva in detail. Distribution. Bulgaria, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Great Britain, Ireland, Italy, Lithuania, Macedonia, Norway, Romania, Russia including Far East, Switzerland, Spain, Sweden, The Netherlands; Japan; Xinjiang Province, Palaearctic China ( Saether & Spies 2004).