Psectrocladius (Psectrocladius) schlienzi Wuelker, 1956

Bitušík, Peter, Novikmec, Milan, Svitok, Marek & Hamerlík, Ladislav, 2024, New faunistic records of chironomids and phantom midges (Diptera, Chironomidae and Chaoboridae) from Ukraine indicate recent climatic refugia in the Eastern Carpathians, ZooKeys 1211, pp. 349-367 : 349-367

Psectrocladius (Psectrocladius) schlienzi Wuelker, 1956

Material examined.

1 pupal exuvium, Lake Sinevir (L 1), 7 May 2018 .

Distribution.

Palaearctic? In addition to some European countries ( Austria, Denmark, Finland, Germany, Great Britain, Italy, Moldova, Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Slovakia, Czech Republic, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland; Ashe and O’Connor 2012; Syrovátka and Langton 2015), it was also recorded in Mongolia ( Hayford 2005). However, the species may have a Holarctic distribution, provided that its presence in North America can be confirmed ( Sealock and Ferrington 2008). Baranov et al. (2024) found a species resembling P. schlienzi in Namibia, but it is possible that the specimen belongs to a yet undescribed species of Psectrocladius related to P. schlienzi .

Habitat.

Different types of stagnant waters from lakes to pools. For example, the only record from the Carpathians comes from a shallow pond in an exploited part of an alkaline fen ( Bitušík and Illéšová 1998). Its occurrence in slowly flowing waters is exceptional ( de Beauvesère-Storm and Tempelman 2009).

Remarks.

The records are scattered across Europe, and it seems that the species is not abundant anywhere ( Moller Pillot 2013).