Taxon classification Animalia Diptera Chironomidae

Harnischia longispuria Wang & Zheng, 1993 Fig. 7

Harnischia longispuria : Wang and Zheng 1993: 459; Wang 1999: 170; Wang 2000: 644.

Harnischia okilurida: Sasa 1993: 127 Syn. n.

Type locality.

China (Hainan).

Material examined.

China: Holotype, ♂ (BDN No. 05224), Hainan Province, Ledong Li Autonomous County, Jianfeng town, 17.05.1988, light trap, Leyi Zheng.Japan: Holotype ( Harnischia okilurida Sasa), ♂ (No. 246: 10), at the side of a dam of Yona River, Lake Nawagaike, 20.05.1993, insect net.

Diagnostic characters.

Thorax yellow with dark brown spots; AR 0.98, frontal tubercles absent; postrior margin of tergite IX triangular and cone-like; anal point constricted at base and swollen distally, with median ridges, bearing setae and microtrichia; anal tergite bands V-shaped, slightly flat at bottom; a fusion of gonostylus and gonocoxite obviously constricted, gonostylus straight, rod-like, both sides almost parallel, round and blunt at apex, without conspicuous short setae in inner margin.

Distribution.

China (Hainan); Japan.

Remarks.

Wang (1999) treat Harnischia longispuria Wang & Zheng as a synonym of Harnischia curtilamellata (Malloch). After re-examining, the specimens of Harnischia longispuria Wang & Zheng, (which should be Harnischia okilurida Sasa), it currently should be a valid species. However, Harnischia okilurida Sasa (December 1993) described later than Harnischia longispuria Wang & Zheng (October 1993), is consequently considered as a new synonym of Harnischia longispuria Wang & Zheng.