Species Cladopelma curtivalva (Kieffer, 1917)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Chironomus curtivalva Kieffer, J.J. 1917. Chironomides d'Australie conservés au Musée National Hongrois de Budapest. Annales Historico-Naturales Musei Nationalis Hungarici (Zoologica) 15: 175-228 [213].

  Type data:

   Holotype MNH ♂ adult (types lost, see Freeman, P. 1961. The Chironomidae (Diptera) of Australia. Australian Journal of Zoology 9: 611–737 [612]), Royal Botanic Gardens (as Jardin botanique), Sydney, NSW.
• Chironomus pulcher Skuse, F.A.A. 1889. Diptera of Australia. Part VI.—The Chironomidae. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 2 4: 215-311 [240] [junior homonym of Chironomus pulcher Wiedemann, 1830; not a misidentification of the Wiedemann species as is stated in 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 : Bishop Museum Press; Leiden : E.J. Brill 1155 pp. (269)].

  Type data:

   Holotype ANIC(MMUS) ♀ adult, Summer Hill, near Sydney, NSW.

  Secondary source:

   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.

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Freeman, P. 1961. The Chironomidae (Diptera) of Australia. Australian Journal of Zoology 9: 611-737 [700]

 

Distribution

States

Australian Capital Territory, New South Wales, Northern Territory, South Australia, Victoria, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Lake Eacham, Barrine .

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

ACT, NSW, NT, SA, Vic, WA: Australian Alps (AA), Arnhem Coast (ARC), Central Arnhem (CA), Carnarvon (CAR), Central Kimberley (CK), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Dampierland (DL), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Esperance Plains (ESP), Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Flinders (FLI), Gawler (GAW), Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Hampton (HAM), Jarrah Forest (JF), Kanmantoo (KAN), Mallee (MAL), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), Northern Kimberley (NK), NSW North Coast (NNC), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Nullarbor (NUL), Pilbara (PIL), Riverina (RIV), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), Swan Coastal Plain (SWA), Tiwi Cobourg (TIW), Victoria Bonaparte (VB), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP), Warren (WAR), Yalgoo (YAL)

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: volant.

Larva: aquatic, rice fields.

 

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 Cladopelma curtivalva Kieffer, 1917)

Forsyth, D.J. 1971. Some New Zealand Chironomidae (Diptera). Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand 1: 113-144 [129] (misidentification as Chironomus (Cryptochironomus) cylindricus Freeman, 1959)

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 [89] (as ?Demicryptochironomus curtivalva)

 

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)