Species Dicrotendipes tenuiforceps (Kieffer, 1913)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Tendipes tenuiforceps Kieffer, J.J. 1913. Nouvelle étude sur les chironomides de l'Indian Museum de Calcutta. Records of the Indian Museum 9: 119-197 [136].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) IM ♂ ♀ adults (number of specimens in type series not stated in original description, see 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 [146] regarding the whereabouts of the types), Calcutta, India.
• Chironomus (Dicrotendipes) innisfailensis Freeman, P. 1961. The Chironomidae (Diptera) of Australia. Australian Journal of Zoology 9: 611-737 [694].

  Type data:

   Holotype ANIC ♂ adult, Innisfail, QLD.
  Paratype(s) BMNH ♀ adult.

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• 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 [145]

Generic Combinations

• Dicrotendipes tenuiforceps (Kieffer, 1913). —
  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 [145]

Distribution

States

Queensland

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

Qld: Cape York Peninsula (CYP), 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 [145] (as Dicrotendipes tenuiforceps (Kieffer, 1913))

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