Taxon classification Animalia Diptera Chironomidae

Harnischia japonica Hashimoto, 1984 Fig. 6

Harnischia japonica: Hashimoto 1984: 262; Wang et al. 1993: 461; Sasa et al. 1988: 32; Sasa 1990 a: 31; Sasa 1993: 72; Wang 1999: 172; Wang 2000: 644; Makarchenko et al. 2005: 410.

Type locality.

Japan.

Material examined.

China: 1 ♂, Fujian Province, Wuyi Mountain Natural Conservation area, 24.04.1993, light trap, Xinhua Wang; 3 ♂♂, Shandong Province, Yantai City, Mouping, Kunyu Mountain, Dianhou, 24.08.1987, Hongyang Li; 2 ♂♂, Guangxi Province, Longsheng County, Sanmen Town, 27.05.1990, Xinhua Wang. Korea: 1 ♂, 20.05.2000, Dr. T.S. Chon.

Diagnostic characters.

Ventral tergites I-IV each terminal with brown band. R1 without microtrichia. Tergite IX with shoulder-like posterior margin. Anal point slightly swollen in the distal 1/3, round and blunt at the apical and with median ridges, bearing lateral setae and microtrichia, stretching to the middle of tergite IX. Anal Tergite bands Y-shaped. Inner margin of gonocoxite with a small protrusion in distal, bearing setae and microtrichia. Gonostylus slender at the base, swollen and truncated apically.

Distribution.

China (Fujian, Shandong, Guangxi); Korea; Japan; Russian Far East.