Species Clinotanypus crux (Wiedemann, 1824)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Tanypus crux Wiedemann, C.R.G. 1824. Munus rectoris in Academia Christiana Albertina aditurus analecta entomologica ex Museo Regio Havniensi maxime congesta profert iconibusque illustrat. Kiliae [= Kiel]. 60 pp. [10].

  Type data:

   Status unknown, whereabouts unknown, 'India or'.
• Clinotanypus australiensis Kieffer, J.J. 1926. Neue Chironomiden aus dem Deutschen Entomologischen Institut zu Berlin-Dahlem (Dipt.). Entomologische Mitteilungen. Berlin-Dahlem 15: 103-106 [104].

  Type data:

   Holotype DEIB ♂ adult, Palmerston, QLD.

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Freeman, P. 1961. The Chironomidae (Diptera) of Australia. Australian Journal of Zoology 9: 611-737 [625]

Generic Combinations

• Clinotanypus crux (Wiedemann, 1824). —
  Freeman, P. 1961. The Chironomidae (Diptera) of Australia. Australian Journal of Zoology 9: 611-737 [625]

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW, NT, Qld: Arnhem Coast (ARC), Arnhem Plateau (ARP), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Central Arnhem (CA), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Daly Basin (DAB), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Desert Uplands (DEU), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Gulf Fall and Uplands (GFU), Gulf Coastal (GUC), Gulf Plains (GUP), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), NSW North Coast (NNC), Ord Victoria Plain (OVP), Pine Creek (PCK), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Tiwi Cobourg (TIW), Victoria Bonaparte (VB), Wet Tropics (WT)

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: volant.

Larva: warm standing waters.

General References

Freeman, P. 1961. The Chironomidae (Diptera) of Australia. Australian Journal of Zoology 9: 611-737 [625] (Australian distribution, possible synonymy of Tanypus pardalis Doleschall, 1856 and Tanypus ornatus Doleschall, 1857)

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