Einfeldia pagana Meigen

Saether, Ole A., 2012, The Chironomus group (Diptera: Chironomidae) in Lake Winnipeg, Canada, Zootaxa 3275, pp. 1-19 : 16

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https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.280836

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6169927

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scientific name

Einfeldia pagana Meigen
status

 

Einfeldia pagana Meigen View in CoL

Chironomus pagana Meigen, 1838: 7 View in CoL .

Einfeldia synchrona Oliver, 1971: 1591 View in CoL .

Material examined. Lake Winnipeg light traps: Beaver Point, 1 male, 27.vii. 1971.

Only one adult male was found with an AR of 2.49, a wing length of 3.37, 6 sensilla chaetica in apical third of ta1 of p2 and 4 sensilla chaetica in apical fifth of ta1 of p3.

Distribution and ecology. The species is known from the Palaearctic and Oriental regions ( Saether & Spies 2011). In North America it is known from British Columbia to Québec, New York, Michigan, South Dakota and Mississippi ( Oliver et al. 1990: 46). E. synchrona was described by Oliver (1971) from a shallow, semiartificial cattle pond near Ottawa, Ontario.

Meigen, J. W. (1838) Systematische Beschreibung der bekannten europaischen zweiflugeligen Insekten. Siebenter Theil oder Supplementband. Schulz, Hamm, pp. i - xii + 1 - 434 + [1], pl. 1 - 8.

Oliver, D. R. (1971) Description of Einfeldia synchrona n. sp. (Diptera: Chironomidae). The Canadian Entomologist, 103, 1591 - 1595.

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).

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Diptera

Family

Chironomidae

Genus

Einfeldia