Taxon classification Animalia Diptera Chironomidae

Nilothauma japonicum Niitsuma

Nilothauma japonicum Niitsuma, 1985: 230.

Kribioxenus jintuprimus Sasa, 1990: 32.

Nilothauma jintuprima (Sasa): Sasa and Kikuchi, 1995: 34.

Material examined.

1 male (LTZU), Zhejiang Province, Linhai City, Sanjiang wetland, 01.VI.2010, Li YF, sweep; 1 male (EJNU), Hainan Province, Jianfengling Nature Conservation Reserve, 29.iv.2012, Tang HQ, sweep net.

Remarks.

So far this species has been recorded from Thailand, Zhejiang and Hainan Province in China, as well as Palaearctic Japan (Adam and Sæther 1999; Yan et. al. 2005; Yamamoto and Yamamoto 2014).

Distribution.

Oriental China (Zhejiang, Hainan province); Thailand; Palaearctic Japan.