Species Dicrotendipes septemmaculatus (Becker, 1908)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Chironomus septemmaculatus Becker, T. 1908. Dipteren der Kanarischen Inseln. Mitteilungen aus dem Zoologischen Museum in Berlin 4: 1-180 [77].

  Type data:

   Holotype ZMB ♀ adult, Port-Orotava, Teneriffe, Canary Ils.
• Dicrotendipes pilosimanus Kieffer, J.J. 1914. South African Chironomidae (Diptera). Annals of the South African Museum 10: 259-270 [262].

  Type data:

   Holotype SAM ♂ adult, Cape Town, South Africa.

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Cranston, P.S. & Armitage, P.D. 1988. The Canary Islands Chironomidae described by T. Becker and by Santos Abreu. Deutsche Entomologische Zeitschrift N.F. 35: 341-354 [348]

Generic Combinations

• Dicrotendipes septemmaculatus (Becker, 1908). —
  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 [42]

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW, NT, Qld: Arnhem Coast (ARC), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Central Arnhem (CA), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Gulf Coastal (GUC), Gulf Plains (GUP), NSW North Coast (NNC), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Tiwi Cobourg (TIW), Victoria Bonaparte (VB), Wet Tropics (WT)

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: volant.

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 [42] (as Dicrotendipes septemmaculatus (Becker, 1908))

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