Chironomus (Chironomus) tuxis Curran

Saether, Ole A., 2012, The Chironomus group (Diptera: Chironomidae) in Lake Winnipeg, Canada, Zootaxa 3275, pp. 1-19 : 13

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

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6169911

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scientific name

Chironomus (Chironomus) tuxis Curran
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Chironomus (Chironomus) tuxis Curran View in CoL

Chironomus tuxis Curran, 1930: 31 View in CoL .

Material examined. Lake Winnipeg light traps: East of McCreary Island, 1 male, 31.vii. 1969; 12 km ENE Winnipeg Beach, 2 males, 17.iii. 1970.

The adult males examined have an AR of 3.22–3.44, 6–8 sensilla chaetica on p2 and 7 on p3. Distribution. The species was previously known from Manitoba, Ontario and Maine, Massachusetts and New Jersey to Michigan and south to Florida ( Townes 1945: 123, Oliver et al. 1990: 43, Martin 2012).

Curran, C. H. (1930) Report on the Diptera collected at the station for the study of insects, Harriman Interstate Park, N. Y. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, 61, 21 - 115.

Martin, J. (2012) North American cytospecies of the genus Chironomus (includes Chaetolabis, Lobochironomus and some Einfeldia (s. l. )). http: // www. genetics. unimelb. edu. au / martin / NACytfiles / NAChiron. html. Accessed 11 March 2012.

Oliver, D. R., Dillon, M. E. & Cranston, P. S. (1990) A catalog of Nearctic Chironomidae. Research Branch Agriculture Canada Publication, 1857 / B, 89 pp.

Townes, H. K. (1945) The Nearctic species of Tendipedini (Diptera: Tendipedidae (= Chironomidae )). American Midland Naturalist, 34, 1 - 206.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Diptera

Family

Chironomidae

Genus

Chironomus