Metriocnemus picipes
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Ordo: Diptera
Familia: Chironomidae
Genus: Metriocnemus
Name
Metriocnemus picipes (Meigen) – Wikispecies link – Pensoft Profile
- Chiromomus picipes Meigen, 1818
- Chironomus paganicus Walker, 1856: 183
- Metriocnemus hirtipalpis Kieffer, 1915: 478
- Metriocnemus longipalpus Sinharay & Chaudhuri, 1978: 281
- Metriocnemus picipes(Meigen); van der Wulp (1874[1]: 136); Edwards (1929[2]: 311); Pinder (1978[3]: 90), Sæther (1995[4]: 59); Wang (2000[5]: 637)
Material examined
CHINA: Jilin Province, Changbai Mountain, 41°2'40"N, 122°37'38"E, 1 male, 7.vii.1986, light trap, X. Wang. Yunan Province, Songhua County, 25°11'38"N, 109°8'18"E, 1 male, 1.vi.1996, light trap, B. Wang. Hebei Province, Pingquan County, Guangtou Mountain, 41°1'43"N, 118°43'1"E, 1 male, 29.vi.1995, light trap, H. Li. Sichuan Province, Daocheng County, Sangdui, 29°11'28"N, 100°6'32"E, 2 males, 13.vi.1996, light trap, X. Wang. Hubei Province, Deduo Mountain, Fenshui ling, 29°40'8"N, 109°5'12"E, 1 male, 16.vi.1999, light trap, B. Ji.
Remarks
The Chinese specimens have a low number of setae on each of subcosta (0–9, 2) and M (4–20, 12), combined with a high AR (1.89–2.90, 2.24) and LR3 (0.44–0.50, 0.46), and a conspicuously long spur of the fore tibia (2.0–2.4 times as long as the apical width of tibia), these characters will distinguish the species from other members of Metriocnemus. Metriocnemus wittei Freeman, 1955 from Africa might be a synonym (Sæther 1995[4]).
Distribution
The species is recorded from the Nearctic, Palaearctic and Oriental regions (Ashe and O’Connor 2012[6]). It has been collected in both Oriental and Palaearctic China.
Taxon Treatment
- Li, X; Wang, X; 2014: New species and records of Metriocnemus van der Wulp s. str. from China (Diptera, Chironomidae) ZooKeys, 387: 73-87. doi
Other References
- ↑ van der Wulp F (1874) Dipterologische aanteekeneningen No. 4. Tijdschrift voor Entomologie 17(4): 109-112.
- ↑ Edwards F (1929) British non–biting midges (Diptera, Chironomidae). Transactions of the Entomological Society of London 77: 279-430. doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2311.1929.tb00692.x
- ↑ Pinder L (1978) A key to adult males of British Chironomidae. Part 1. The key; part 2. Illustrations of the hypopygia. Scientific Publication Freshwater Biological Association 37, 169 pp.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 Sæther O (1995) Metriocnemus van der Wulp: seven new species, revision of species, and new records (Diptera: Chironomidae). Annales de Limnologie 31(1): 35-64. doi: 10.1051/limn/1995002
- ↑ Wang X (2000) A revised checklist of Chironomidae from China (Diptera). In: Hoffrichter O (Ed) Late 20th century research on Chironomidae: an anthology from the 13th International Symposium on Chironomidae, Freiburg, 5–9 September 1997. Shaker Verlag, Aachen, 629-652.
- ↑ Ashe P, O’Connor J (2012) A World Catalogue of Chironomidae (Diptera). Part 2. Orthocladiinae (Section A & B). Irish Biogeographical Society & National Museum of Ireland, Dublin, 986 pp.
