Species Dicrotendipes flexus (Johannsen, 1932)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Chironomus flexus Johannsen, O.A. 1932. Chironominae of the Malayan Subregion of the Dutch East Indies. Archiv für Hydrobiologie Supplement 11: 508-552 [530].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH ♂ adult, R.[iver] Bedali, (Java, Indonesia).
  Paratype(s) BMNH ♂ adult.

 

Generic Combinations

• Dicrotendipes flexus (Johannsen, 1932). —
  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.

 

Distribution

States

Northern Territory, Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

Lakes Eacham and Barrine

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NT, Qld: Arnhem Coast (ARC), Central Arnhem (CA), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Gulf Coastal (GUC), Gulf Plains (GUP), Tiwi Cobourg (TIW), Victoria Bonaparte (VB), Wet Tropics (WT)

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: volant.

Larva: aquatic, lake.

 

General References

Epler, J.H. 1988. Biosystematics of the genus Dicrotendipes Kieffer, 1913 (Diptera: Chironomidae: Chironominae) of the world. Memoirs of the American Entomological Society 36: 1-214 [128] (taxonomy, distribution)

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
26-Apr-2012		26-Apr-2012	MODIFIED
		12-Feb-2010	(import)