Insecta - Diptera - Chironomidae
Full reference: F. Meunier. 1912. Aperçu sur quelques Chironomidae et Ceratopogonidae du copal récent du Zanzibar et de Madagascar. Annales de la Société Scientifique de Bruxelles 36:189-192
Belongs to Chironomus according to F. Meunier 1912
See also Meunier 1912
Sister taxa: Chironomus (Chironomus), Chironomus abietarius, Chironomus almelanderi, Chironomus antiquus, Chironomus aquisextanus, Chironomus bituminosus, Chironomus brevirostris, Chironomus caliginosus, Chironomus decrepitus, Chironomus depletus, Chironomus elegantulus, Chironomus gaudini, Chironomus inclusus, Chironomus inglorius, Chironomus lacunus, Chironomus lacus, Chironomus leucomelas, Chironomus meticulosus, Chironomus meunieri, Chironomus meyeri, Chironomus microcephalus, Chironomus obsoletus, Chironomus oeningensis, Chironomus paludosus, Chironomus patens, Chironomus pausatus, Chironomus pliocenicus, Chironomus primaevus, Chironomus pristinus, Chironomus proterus, Chironomus requiescens, Chironomus scudderiellus, Chironomus septus, Chironomus sepultus, Chironomus serresi, Chironomus subobscurus, Chironomus tenebricosus, Chironomus tenebrosus, Chironomus uliginosus, Chironomus umbraticus, Chironomus umbrosus, Chironomus vagabundus, Chironomus venerabilis
Type specimen: Its type locality is Zanzibar Copal (Meunier collection), which is in a Holocene terrestrial amber in Tanzania
Ecology:
Distribution: found only at Zanzibar Copal (Meunier collection)
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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