Atrichopogon (A.) rufescens Kieffer, 1921

Szadziewski, Ryszard & Dominiak, Patrycja, 2009, Biting midges of the genus Atrichopogon Kieffer (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae) described by Kieffer from Taiwan, Zootaxa 2239, pp. 45-54 : 52

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.5281/zenodo.190490

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6216506

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scientific name

Atrichopogon (A.) rufescens Kieffer, 1921
status

 

Atrichopogon (A.) rufescens Kieffer, 1921 View in CoL

Atrichopogon rufescens Kieffer, 1921: 563 View in CoL (description of single female from Taihoku). Blech & Rohlfien 1987: 222 (in collection of SDEI type absent).

Atrichopogon (Kempia) rufescens: Tokunaga 1940b: 115 View in CoL (male, female, fig. male genitalia, Taihoku, Taiwan).

Diagnosis. Body red, matt, length 1 mm. Head missing. Legs yellow. Second radial cell less than 2 times longer than first. Wing membrane uniformly covered with macrotrichia.

Discussion. Species determined by Tokunaga (1940b) as A. rufescens is much bigger than that shown in the original description by Kieffer. We treat it as nomen dubium. Probably it is synonymous with A. minimus .

Blech, H. & Rohlfien, K. (1987) Katalog der in den Sammlungen der Abteilung Taxonomie der Insekten des Institutes fur Pflanzenschutzforschung, Bereich Eberswalde (chemals Deutsches Entomologisches Institut), aufbewahrten Typen - XXV. Diptera: Nematocera). Beitrage zur Entomologie, 37, 203 - 258.

Kieffer, J. J. (1921) Chironomides des Philippines et de Formose. Philippine Journal of Science, 18, 557 - 593.

Tokunaga, M. (1940 b) Biting midges from Japan and neighbouring countries including Micronesian Islands, Manchuria, north China and Mongolia (Diptera, Ceratopogonidae). Tenthredo, 3, 101 - 165.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Diptera

Family

Ceratopogonidae

Genus

Atrichopogon

SubGenus

Atrichopogon