Glyptotendipes (Caulochironomus) dreisbachi Townes

Saether, Ole A., 2011, Glyptotendipes Kieffer and Demeijerea Kruseman from Lake Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, with the description of four new species (Diptera: Chironomidae), Zootaxa 2760, pp. 39-52 : 50

Glyptotendipes (Caulochironomus) dreisbachi Townes

Material examined. CANADA: Manitoba, Lake Winnipeg, Matheson Island Government Wharf, 1 male, 5.vi. 1969; Old Fishing Dock, 2 males, 21.vii. & 11.viii.1971; Hecla Island, 51 males, 27.vii. & 11.viii. 1971.

The male imagines have 9–18, 25 (5) sensilla chaetica on ta1 of p2 at 0.1–0.7; no sensilla chaetica on ta1 of p3.

Distribution and ecology. The species was previously known from Northwest Territories, Saskatchewan, Ontario and Michigan ( Townes 1945: 146, Oliver et al. 1990: 47) where it is a burrower in the stems of several species of Potamogeton ( Townes 1945: 146) .