Species Kiefferulus paratinctus (Martin, 1964)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Chironomus paratinctus Martin, J. 1964. Morphological differences between Chironomus intertinctus Skuse and C. paratinctus, sp. nov., with descriptions and a key to the subgenus Kiefferulus (Diptera: Nematocera). Australian Journal of Zoology 12: 279-287 [285].

  Type data:

   Holotype ANIC ♂ adult, Botanic Gardens, Melbourne, VIC.
  Paratype(s) ANIC 25 adults; BMNH ♂ ♀ adults; NM ♂ ♀ adults.

 

Generic Combinations

• Kiefferulus paratinctus (Martin, 1964). —
  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

New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, Tasmania, Victoria

Extra Distribution Information

Widespread in Australia from Kakadu to Tasmania .

Australian Endemic.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW, NT, Qld, Tas, Vic: Australian Alps (AA), Arnhem Coast (ARC), Arnhem Plateau (ARP), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Ben Lomond (BEL), Central Arnhem (CA), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Daly Basin (DAB), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Desert Uplands (DEU), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Flinders (FLI), Gulf Fall and Uplands (GFU), Gulf Coastal (GUC), Gulf Plains (GUP), King (KIN), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), NSW North Coast (NNC), Ord Victoria Plain (OVP), Pine Creek (PCK), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Tasmanian Central Highlands (TCH), Tiwi Cobourg (TIW), Tasmanian Northern Midlands (TNM), Tasmanian Northern Slopes (TNS), Tasmanian South East (TSE), Tasmanian Southern Ranges (TSR), Tasmanian West (TWE), Victoria Bonaparte (VB), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP), Wet Tropics (WT)

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: volant.

Larva: lake.

 

General 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. (as Kiefferulus paratinctus (Martin, 1964))

 

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)