Insecta - Diptera - Chironomidae

Alternative combination: Chironomus arrogans

Full reference: C. G. Giebel. 1856. Die Insecten und Spinnen der Vorwelt mit steter Berücksichtigung der lebenden Insekten und Spinnen. Die Fauna der Vorwelt 2:1-511

Belongs to Chironomopsis according to A. Handlirsch 1906

See also Giebel 1856

Sister taxa: Chironomopsis extinctus, Chironomopsis gracilis

Type specimen: Its type locality is Dinton, Vale of Wardour, Middle Purbeck, which is in a Berriasian lagoonal/restricted shallow subtidal horizon in the Lulworth Formation of the United Kingdom

Distribution: found only at Dinton, Vale of Wardour, Middle Purbeck

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