Chironomus (Chironomus) entis Shobanov

Saether, Ole A., 2012, The Chironomus group (Diptera: Chironomidae) in Lake Winnipeg, Canada, Zootaxa 3275, pp. 1-19 : 9-10

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https://doi.org/ 10.5281/zenodo.280836

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https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6169899

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Chironomus (Chironomus) entis Shobanov
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Chironomus (Chironomus) entis Shobanov View in CoL

( Figs 3 View FIGURE 3 A–C, 6 A–E, 7, 9)

Chironomus (Chironomus) entis Shobanov, 1989a, 1989b: 341 View in CoL .

Chironomus plumosus View in CoL f. semireductus auct. pro parte

Chironomus muratensis Chang et al. 1993, 1994 View in CoL , not Ryser, Sholl et Wülker.

Material examined. Lake Winnipeg light traps: Matheson Island Government Wharf, 5 males, 3 females, 5.vi. & 26.vii. 1969; 4 km off Grand Rapids, 22 males, 8.vi. 1969; Victoria Beach, 110 males, 9.vii. & 25.vii. 1969; Pine Dock, 9 males, 10.vii. 1969; 0.5 km off George Island, 131 males, 11.vii. & 12.vii. 1969; 3 km off Grand Rapids, 1755 males, 13.vii. & 4.ix. 1969; 10 km off (Sturgeonskin point) Long Point, 4471 males, 14.vii. 1969; 3 km off McCreary Island, 344 males, 15.vii. 1969; Gull Harbour, 28 males, 5 females, 16.vii. 1969; Gimli Government Wharf, 197 males, 24.vii. 1969; 3 km off George Island, 1578 males, 1 female, 27.vii. 1969; Grand Rapids Government Wharf, 728 males, 28.vii. & 5.ix. 1969; 5 km off Selkirk (Horse) Island, 487 males, 29.vii. 1969; McBeth Harbour, 202 males, 30.vii. & 7.ix. 1969; Pine Dock, 5 males, 31.vii. 1969; 15 km E off Long Point, 6 males, 6.ix. 1969; Beaver Point, 413 males, 18.vi. –27.viii. 1971; 20 Mile Creek, 2 males, 5.viii. 1971; Old Fishing Dock, 839 males, 9.vi. –5.viii. 1971; Calder's Dock, 373 males, 11.vi. –8.ix. 1971; Hecla Island, 12 males, 27.vii. & 11.viii. 1971. Emergence traps: Beaver Creek, 6 males, 22.vii. –11.viii. 1971. Rearing specimens: NNE of Reindeer Island, 4 males, 11.vi. 1969; NW Disbrowe Point, 1 male, 11.vii. 1969; Saskatchewan River Buoy, 1 male, 13.vii. 1969; East of Selkirk Island, 1male, 29.vii. 1969; West of Selkirk Island, 3 males, 29.vii. 1969; East McCreary Island, 3 males, 31.vii. 1969; Anama Bay, 1 male, 31.vii. 1969; 13 km SE Bigstone Point, 1 male, 1 female, 3.ix. 1969. South Basin, 55 larvae, 9.vii. –31.x. 1969; Narrows, 302 larvae, 1 pupa, 4.vi. –31.x. 1969; North Basin, 356 larvae, 8 pupae, 4.vi. –31.x. 1969.

Normal unparasitized males from Lake Winnipeg have an AR of 4.80–6.61, 5.46 (115); 30–55, 36 (10) sensilla chaetica on p2; 20–36, 24 (10) sensilla chaetica on p3; and fall completely within the redescription of C. plumosus (L.) by Strenzke (1959: 19). The females have 130–220, 178 (10) sensilla chaetica on p2; 140–252, 217 (10) sensilla chaetica on p3. Genitalia of normal male and female, gynandromorphs and intersexes are illustrated in Saether & Galloway (1980 figs. 5–6). The female genitalia are also illustrated in Saether (1977 fig. 81 D–E).

The immatures ( Figs 3 View FIGURE 3 A–C, 6 A–E) are also typical C. plumosus except that the larva has blood-gills of semireductus type ( Lenz 1954 –62: 161; Shobanov 1989). Although the blood-gills overlap in length between C. entis and C. plumosus the head capsule measurements show that only one is species involved. The head capsule lengths of different instars is shown in Fig. 9 View FIGURE 9 .

Distribution and ecology. C. entis in North America (as C. f. semireductus) is known from British Columbia and Manitoba, and from Washington, Colorado, North and South Dakota, Minnesota, Wisconsin and Indiana ( Saether 1970: 8, 1975: 3130; Saether & McLean 1972: 11; Wiederholm 1976: 27; Kiknadze et al. 2000: 859; Martin 2012). In the Palaearctic region C. entis is known from freshwater in Norway, Finland, Estonia, Chech Republic, Russia and Switzerland ( Kiknadze et al. 2000: 859, Saether & Spies 2011).

In Lake Winnipeg C. entis is the most common Chironomus species in the benthos of the narrows and the north basin ( Figs 1 View FIGURE 1 , 7 View FIGURE 7 ). Although many adult specimens were caught in the light traps from 1971 ( Fig. 5 View FIGURE 5 ) even more were caught on the light traps set on the ship in 1969. There apparently are two generations a year.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Diptera

Family

Chironomidae

Genus

Chironomus

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Chironomus (Chironomus) entis Shobanov

Saether, Ole A. 2012
2012
Loc

Chironomus (Chironomus) entis

Shobanov 1989: 341
1989
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