Species Microchironomus tener (Kieffer, 1918)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Chironomus (Chironomus) tener Kieffer, J.J. 1918. Beschreibung neuer, auf Lazarettschiffen des östlichen Kriegsschauplatzes und bei Ignalino in Litauen von Dr. W. Horn gesammelter Chironomiden, mit Uebersichtstabellen einiger Gruppen von paläarktischen Arten (Dipt.). Entomologische Mitteilungen. Berlin-Dahlem 7: 35-53 [48].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) MNH 2♂ 3♀ adults, Danzig (Poland).
• Chironomus (Cryptochironomus) forcipatus Freeman, P. 1954. Chironomidae (Diptera) from western Cape Province—III. Proceedings of the Royal Entomological Society of London B 23: 17-25 [20].

  Type data:

   Holotype whereabouts unknown ♂ adult, Berg R., Piquetberg, South Africa.

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Sæther, O.A. 1977. Taxonomic studies on Chironomidae: Nanocladius, Pseudochironomus and the Harnischia complex. Bulletin of the Fisheries Research Board of Canada 196: i-vii, 1-143 [101]

Generic Combinations

• Microchironomus tener (Kieffer, 1918). —
  Bugledich, E.-M.A., Cranston, P.S. & Martin, J. 1999. Diptera: Nematocera: Chironomidae. pp. 112-158 in Wells, A. & Houston, W.W.K. (eds). Zoological Catalogue of Australia. Vol. 30.1. Melbourne : CSIRO Publishing, Australia xiii 627 pp. [124]

Distribution

States

Australian Capital Territory, New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, Victoria

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

ACT, NSW, NT, Qld, Vic: Australian Alps (AA), Arnhem Coast (ARC), Arnhem Plateau (ARP), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Central Arnhem (CA), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Daly Basin (DAB), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Desert Uplands (DEU), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mulga Lands (ML), Nandewar (NAN), New England Tablelands (NET), NSW North Coast (NNC), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Ord Victoria Plain (OVP), Pine Creek (PCK), Riverina (RIV), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Tiwi Cobourg (TIW), Victoria Bonaparte (VB), Victorian Midlands (VM), Wet Tropics (WT)

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: volant.

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.

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