Genus Cricotopus van der Wulp, 1874
Compiler and date details
2012 - Updated Judith King & Christine Lambkin, Queensland Museum
E.-M. Bugledich, P.S. Cranston & J. Martin, CSIRO Entomology, Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia
Taxonomic Decision for Subgeneric Arrangement
- Ashe, P. 1983. A catalogue of chironomid genera and subgenera of the world including synonyms (Diptera: Chironomidae). Entomologica Scandinavica. Supplementum 17: 1-68 [19]
- Cranston, P.S. & Martin, J. 1989. 26. Family Chironomidae. pp. 252-274 in Evenhuis, N.L. (ed.). Catalog of the Diptera of the Australasian and Oceanian Regions. Honolulu and Leiden : Bishop Museum Press and E.J. Brill 1155 pp. [259]
- Cranston, P.S. & Krosch, M.N. 2015. DNA sequences and austral taxa indicate generic synonymy of Paratrichocladius Santos-Abreu with Cricotopus Wulp (Diptera: Chironomidae). Systematic Entomology 40(4): 719–732 (Paratrichocladius as subgenus)
Distribution
States
Australian Capital Territory, New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria, Western Australia
Extra Distribution Information
Worldwide.
IBRA
ACT, NSW, NT, Qld, SA, Tas, Vic, WA: Australian Alps (AA), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Riverina (RIV), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Wet Tropics (WT) ; ACT, NSW, NT, Qld, SA, Vic, WA: NSW North Coast (NNC), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS) ; ACT, NSW, NT, Qld, Vic, WA: Arnhem Plateau (ARP), Pine Creek (PCK), Warren (WAR) ; ACT, NSW, Qld, SA, Tas, Vic: Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Kanmantoo (KAN), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South East Corner (SEC), Tasmanian Central Highlands (TCH), Tasmanian West (TWE), Victorian Midlands (VM) ; ACT, NSW, SA, Vic: Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Flinders (FLI), Gawler (GAW), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mulga Lands (ML), Nandewar (NAN), New England Tablelands (NET), Sydney Basin (SB), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP) ; NSW, NT, Qld, Vic, WA: Darwin Coastal (DAC), Pilbara (PIL) ; NT, Qld, WA: Gulf Fall and Uplands (GFU)
Other Regions
Lord Howe Island terrestrial & freshwater
Distribution References
- Cranston, P.S. & Martin, J. 1989. 26. Family Chironomidae. pp. 252-274 in Evenhuis, N.L. (ed.). Catalog of the Diptera of the Australasian and Oceanian Regions. Honolulu and Leiden : Bishop Museum Press and E.J. Brill 1155 pp. [259]
- Sublette, J.E. & Sublette, M.F. 1973. Family Chironomidae. pp. 389-422 in Delfinado, M.D & Hardy, D.E. (eds). A Catalog of the Diptera of the Oriental Region. Volume 1. Suborder Nematocera. Honolulu : University Press of Hawaii Vol. 1 618 pp. [396]
General References
Drayson, N., Cranston, P.S. & Krosch, M.N. 2015. Taxonomic review of the chironomid genus Cricotopus v.d. Wulp (Diptera: Chironomidae) from Australia: keys to males, females, pupae and larvae, description of ten new species and comments on Paratrichocladius Santos Abreu. Zootaxa 3919(1): 1-40
History of changes
| Published | As part of group | Action Date | Action Type | Compiler(s) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 09-Nov-2015 | Cricotopus van der Wulp, 1874 | 09-Nov-2015 | MODIFIED | |
| 12-May-2015 | CHIRONOMIDAE | 12-Mar-2015 | MODIFIED | Dr Federica Turco |
| 26-Apr-2012 | 26-Apr-2012 | MODIFIED | ||
| 12-Feb-2010 | (import) |