Microchironomus lacteipennis (Kieffer) Yan, Chun-Cai, Yan, Jiao, Jiang, Li, Guo, Qin, Liu, Ting, Ge, Xin-yu, Wang, Xin-Hua & Pan, Bao-ping, 2015

Yan, Chun-Cai, Yan, Jiao, Jiang, Li, Guo, Qin, Liu, Ting, Ge, Xin-yu, Wang, Xin-Hua & Pan, Bao-ping, 2015, Parachironomus Lenz from China and Japan (Diptera, Chironomidae), ZooKeys 494, pp. 31-50 : 39

Taxon classification Animalia Diptera Chironomidae

Microchironomus lacteipennis (Kieffer) comb. n.

Cryptochironomus lacteipennis Kieffer, 1921a: 183.

Parachironomus lacteipennis (Kieffer) - Sublette and Sublette (1973: 405).

Remarks.

Kieffer (1921a) described the species in the genus Cryptochironomus , which at that time included many species now treated in several separate genera. Sublette and Sublette (1973) placed it in Parachironomus . Based on the original description, which describes the inferior volsella as absent, the superior volsella as long and slender, the gonocoxite straight in the proximal 1/3, curved in the distal 2/3, distally attenuated and terminating in an incurved hooklet, Cryptochironomus lacteipennis clearly belongs to Microchironomus and not to Parachironomus . The placement by Sublette and Sublette (1973), and the earlier one in " Tendipes (Parachironomus) " by Kruseman (1939), likely are due to the fact that those authors did not treat Microchironomus as a separate genus.

Distribution.

The species is recorded from Taiwan Province (Oriental China).