Glyptotendipes (Caulochironomus) dreisbachi Townes

• Main Author: Saether, Ole A.
• Format: Other/Unknown Material
• Language: unknown
• Published: 2011
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Arthropoda; Insecta; Diptera; Chironomidae; Glyptotendipes; Glyptotendipes dreisbachi; Northwest Territories; Canada; Matheson; Matheson Island
• Online Access: https://zenodo.org/record/6183749; https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6183749

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 ta 1 of p 2 at 0.1–0.7; no sensilla chaetica on ta 1 of p 3. 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). Published as part of Saether, Ole A., 2011, Glyptotendipes Kieffer and Demeijerea Kruseman from Lake Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, with the description of four new species (Diptera: Chironomidae), pp. 39-52 in Zootaxa 2760 on page 50, DOI:10.5281/zenodo.203816