Rhamphomyia laevigata Loew

• Published in: Limnology and Oceanography Letters
• Main Authors: Sinclair, Bradley J., Vajda, Élodie A., Saigusa, Toyohei, Shamshev, Igor V., Wheeler, Terry A.
• Format: Other/Unknown Material
• Language: unknown
• Published: 2019
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Arthropoda; Insecta; Diptera; Chironomidae; Rhamphomyia; Rhamphomyia laevigata; Nunavut; Northwest Territories; Canada; Tuktoyaktuk; Sinclair; Hebron; Salekhard; Granet Lake; Arctic; Baker Lake; nenets; Nenets Autonomous Okrug; Yamalo Nenets; Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug
• Online Access: https://zenodo.org/record/3796954; https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3796954

Rhamphomyia laevigata Loew (Figs 55–58) Rhamphomyia laevigata Loew, 1861: 325. Type-locality: Nebraska, USA. Other references: Coquillett, 1895: 414 (key); Melander, 1928: 195 (catalogue); Melander, 1965: 464 (catalogue); Yang et al., 2007: 195 (catalogue). Rhamphomyia (Pararhamphomyia) fridolini Frey, 1950: 102. Type-locality: Russia, Tyumenskaya Province, Yamalo-Nenets, “Ural: Obdorsk [= Salekhard, 66°32′N 66°38′E]”. syn. nov. Other references: Frey, 1955a: 479 (revision); Chvála & Wagner, 1989: 300 (catalogue); Yang et al., 2007: 170 (catalogue); Shamshev, 2016: 63 (checklist). Type material examined. Rhamphomyia laevigata: NEOTYPE (here designated in order to fix identity of the species) ♂ (Fig. 55B), labelled (Fig. 55A): “Chicago, Ill./ May 30 ‘90”; “AL Melander/ Collection/ 1961”; “laevigata/ Lw/ Neotype ♂ [red pencil crayon]”; “ RHAMPHOMYIA / LAEVIGATA LOEW ”; “ NEOTYPE / Rhamphomyia / laevigata Loew / des/ Sinclair 2017” (USNM). Rhamphomyia fridolini: HOLOTYPE ♂ (Fig. 55D), labelled: “[printed in Cyrillic, Russian] bass. r. [= basin of river] Voykar [~ 65°39′14″N 64°36′00″E, Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug, Russia]/. [= Bol’shoy] Ural, Obdorsk [now Salekhard]/ Fridolin 14 VIII.[19]25”; “Spec. typ. [square pink, printed]”; “ Rh. fridolini Frey Type [hand-written by Frey] Frey det. [printed]”; “ Holotypus ♂ / Rhamphomyia fridolini / Frey, 1950 / det. Shamshev, 2017 [red] (ZIN, INS _DIP_0000507) [holotype glued on a carton board; in good condition, but tarsomere 5 of right hind leg, left mid leg and tarsomeres 4–5 of left hind leg missing]. Additional material examined. CANADA. Labrador: Hebron, 19.vii., 3.viii.1954, J.F. McAlpine (2 ♂, 1 ♀, CNC); same locality, 10.vii.–9.viii.1954, E.E. Sterns (7 ♂, 8 ♀, CNC); Tessiujak Bay, Nagvak Fjord, 15.viii.1954, J.F. McAlpine (4 ♂, 9 ♀, CNC). Northwest Territories: Granet Lake, 68°42′N, 125°37′W, 20.196 9, G.E. Shewell (1 ♂, CNC); - 21 mi E Tuktoyaktuk, 2–21.vii.1971, D.M. Wood (18 ♂, 5 ♀, CNC). Nunavut: Baker Lake, 26.vii.–viii.1947, T. N. Freeman (2 ♂, 3 ♀, ...