Chironomus (Chironomus) atrella Townes

Tendipes atrella Townes, 1945: 124 .

Material examined. Lake Winnipeg light traps: 10 km ESE Pearson Reef, 1 male, 1 female, 5.vi. 1969. The single adult male collected has an AR of 4.14, 21 sensilla chaetica on p2 and 18 on p3. A female presumably belonging to C. atrella has 65 sensilla chaetica on p2, 34 on p3.

Distribution and ecology. The species is known from prairie sloughs, pools and lakes from Prince Edward Island to Alberta and British Columbia, and south to Massachusetts, California, Colorado and New Mexico (Townes 1945: 124, Oliver et al. 1990: 42, Martin 2012.