Species Chironomus javanus Kieffer, 1924

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• Chironomus javanus Kieffer, J.J. 1924. Chironomides non piquers de Java. Annales de la Société Scientifique de Bruxelles 43: 262-270 [263].

  Type data:

   Holotype whereabouts unknown ?lost, Java.
• Chironomus (Chironomus) vitellinus Freeman, P. 1961. The Chironomidae (Diptera) of Australia. Australian Journal of Zoology 9: 611-737 [686].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH ♂ adult, Darwin, NT.
  Paratype(s) BMNH 4♂ 5♀ adults; SAMA ♂ adult.

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Chaudhuri, P.K., Das, S.K. & Sublette, J.E. 1992. Indian species of genus Chironomus Meigen (Diptera: Chrionomidae). Zoologische Jahrbücher. Abteilung für Systematik 119: 1-51 [13]

Generic Combinations

• Einfeldia vitellina (Freeman, 1961). —
  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. [269]

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW, NT, Qld: Arnhem Coast (ARC), Central Arnhem (CA), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Darwin Coastal (DAC), NSW North Coast (NNC), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Tiwi Cobourg (TIW), Victoria Bonaparte (VB)

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: volant.

General References

Chaudhuri, P.K., Das, S.K. & Sublette, J.E. 1992. Indian species of genus Chironomus Meigen (Diptera: Chrionomidae). Zoologische Jahrbücher. Abteilung für Systematik 119: 1-51 (referred to Chironomus, sensu stricto)

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