Paratanytarsus laccophilus (Edwards, 1929)

Bitusik, Peter, Novikmec, Milan & Hamerlik, Ladislav, 2020, Chironomids (Insecta, Diptera, Chironomidae) from alpine lakes in the Eastern Carpathians with comments on newly-recorded species from Ukraine, Biodiversity Data Journal 8, pp. 49378-49378 : 49378

Paratanytarsus laccophilus (Edwards, 1929)

Materials

Type status: Other material. Occurrence: recordedBy: M. N.; individualCount: 31; lifeStage: pupal exuviae; occurrenceID: BDJ_13073_15; Location: country: Ukraine; locality: Chornohora, lake Breskul 1 ; verbatimElevation: 1738; Event: eventDate: 23-06-19 Type status: Other material. Occurrence: recordedBy: M. N.; individualCount: 23; lifeStage: pupal exuviae; occurrenceID: BDJ_13073_16; Location: country: Ukraine; locality: Chornohora, lake Nesamovyte ; verbatimElevation: 1745; Event: eventDate: 24-06-19 Type status: Other material. Occurrence: recordedBy: M. N.; individualCount: 155; lifeStage: pupal exuviae; occurrenceID: BDJ_13073_17; Location: country: Ukraine; locality: Svydovets, lake Geryshaska ; verbatimElevation: 1584; Event: eventDate: 26-06-19 Type status: Other material. Occurrence: recordedBy: M. N.; individualCount: 2; sex: M; lifeStage: pharate adult; occurrenceID: BDJ_13073_18; Location: country: Ukraine; locality: Svydovets, lake Geryshaska ; verbatimElevation: 1584; Event: eventDate: 26-06-19 Type status: Other material. Occurrence: recordedBy: M. N.; individualCount: 1; lifeStage: pupal exuviae; occurrenceID: BDJ_13073_19; Location: country: Ukraine; locality: Svydovets, lake Vorozheska 1 ; verbatimElevation: 1480; Event: eventDate: 26-06-19

Distribution

Holarctic species, primarily distributed in northern and Western Europe, records are lacking from the southern and eastern part of the continent.

Notes

Euryoecious species occurring in ponds and lakes ( Langton and Visser 2003). It belongs to typical colonisers of both natural ( Lencioni et al. 2018) and artificial water bodies ( Bukvová and Hamerlík 2015). However, the species is not characteristic for high mountain lakes. While Boggero (2018) considered P. laccophilus to be rare in lakes of the southern side of the Central-Eastern Alps, it has not been found in the Tatra Mountains at all.