Species Xenochironomus canterburyensis (Freeman, 1959)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Chironomus canterburyensis Freeman, P. 1959. A study of the New Zealand Chironomidae (Diptera, Nematocera). Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) Entomol. 7: 393-437 [425].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH ♀ adult, South Canterbury, New Zealand.
  Paratype(s) BMNH 2♀ adults.

Generic Combinations

• Xenochironomus canterburyensis (Freeman, 1959). —
  Forsyth, D.J. & McCallum, I.D. 1978. Xenochironomus canterburyensis (Diptera: Chironomidae) an insectan inquiline commensal of Hyridella menziesi (Mollusca: Lamellibranchia). Journal of Zoology, London 186: 331-334 [331]

Distribution

States

South Australia, Victoria

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

SA, Vic: Australian Alps (AA), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Channel Country (CHC), Central Ranges (CR), Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Finke (FIN), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Flinders (FLI), Gawler (GAW), Great Victoria Desert (GVD), Hampton (HAM), Kanmantoo (KAN), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Nullarbor (NUL), Riverina (RIV), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), Simpson Strzelecki Dunefields (SSD), Stony Plains (STP), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP)

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: volant.

Larva: inquiline.

Extra Ecological Information

Inquiline commensal of the lamellibranch mussel Hyridella menziesi (Gray).

History of changes