Glyptotendipes (Glyptotendipes) barbipes (Staeger)

Saether, Ole A., 2011, Glyptotendipes Kieffer and Demeijerea Kruseman from Lake Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, with the description of four new species (Diptera: Chironomidae), Zootaxa 2760, pp. 39-52 : 44

Glyptotendipes (Glyptotendipes) barbipes (Staeger)

( Fig. 2 C–E)

Material examined. CANADA: Manitoba, Lake Winnipeg, Gimli Government Wharf, 1 female, 1 male 24.vi.1969 & 9.ix.1969; Grand Rapids Government Wharf, 11 males, 28.vi.1969.

The male imagines have 23–35, 29 (5) sensilla chaetica in apical half of ta1 of p2, none on p3. Hypopygium as in Fig. 2 C. One female has 98 sensilla chaetica at 0.25–0.80 of ta1 of p2, 103 sensilla chaetica at 0.20–0.80 of ta1 of p3. The female genitalia are illustrated in Fig 2 D, E (from Saether (1977 fig. 80 C–D) and described by Contreras- Lichtenberg (1996: 20).

Distribution and ecology. The species is Holarctic and Oriental, but does not occur in Southern Europe and in North Africa. In North America it is found from Alaska and British Columbia to New Brunswick and New York and south to California, New Mexico and South Carolina ( Townes 1945: 141, Oliver et al. 1990: 47, Saether & Spies 2004). The larvae live in puddles and ponds, in brackish waters an in saline inland waters ( Lenz 1954 –62: 175, Fittkau & Reiss 1978: 432).

Figures

FIGURE 2. Glyptotendipes (Glyptotendipes) spp. A, B. G. (G.) paratestaceus sp. n. male; A – legs; B – hypopygium. C – E. G. (G.) barbipes (Staeger); C – hypopygium; D – female genitalia, ventral view; E – lobes of gonapophysis, apodeme lobe (ApL), ventrolateral lobe (VlL) and dorsomesal lobe (DmL).