Corynoneura gratias Schlee

Fu, Yue, Saether, Ole A. & Wang, Xinhua, 2009, Corynoneura Winnertz from East Asia, with a systematic review of the genus (Diptera: Chironomidae: Orthocladiinae), Zootaxa 2287, pp. 1-44 : 12

Corynoneura gratias Schlee

Corynoneura gratias Schlee, 1968b: 26 ; Hirvenoja and Hirvenoja 1988: 218.

Material examined: P. R. CHINA: Liaoning Province, Panjin County, Guchengzi, 40°41'– 41°27'N, 121°34'E, alt. 50 m, 1 male (BDN no. 03374), 13.iv.1992, Juncai Wang.

Diagnostic characters. Wing length 1.0 mm. Antenna with 10 flagellomeres; apex acute, with short subapical sensilla chaetica, AR 0.92. Hind tibia without S-shaped seta. Posterior margin of tergite IX bilobed, laterosternite IX with 1 seta. Inferior volsella absent, sternapodeme inverted U-shaped, attachment point with phallapodeme placed caudal and ventrally directed; phallapodeme strongly curved.

Remarks. Schlee (1968b) described the species based on specimen from Stuttgart, Germany. C. scutellata listed by Wang (2000) from Liaoning province was wrongly identified and should be corrected to C. gratias .

Distribution. Czech Republic, Finland, France, Germany, Norway, Russia, Slovakia, Spain, Sweden; Liaoning Province, Palaearctic China ( Saether & Spies 2004).