Uncovering the hidden diversity of non-biting midges (Diptera, Chironomidae) from central Namibia, using morphology and DNA barcodes
Author
Baranov, Viktor
0000-0003-1893-3215
Estación Biológica de Doñana-CSIC / Doñana Biological Station-CSIC, Seville, Spain
Author
Lin, Xiaolong
0000-0001-6544-6204
Engineering Research Center of Environmental DNA and Ecological Water Health Assessment, Shanghai Ocean University, Shanghai 201306, China
Author
Hübner, Jeremy
https://orcid.org/0009-0007-5624-8573
Bavarian State Collection of Zoology (SNSB-ZSM), Munich, Germany
Author
Chimeno, Caroline
0000-0001-9933-6492
Bavarian State Collection of Zoology (SNSB-ZSM), Munich, Germany
text
African Invertebrates
2024
2024-04-29
65
1
13
36
journal article
10.3897/afrinvertebr.65.111920
CD3A2816-4574-42F6-AF5D-442E232B4239
Parametriocnemus scotti
(
Freeman, 1956
)
Fig. 4 G
Material examined.
Namibia
•
8 ♂
2 ♀
,
1 larva
;
HARDAP
;
Naukluft Mountain Zebra Park
,
Tufa waterfalls
;
24 ° 15 ' 47.88 " S
,
16 ° 13 ' 44.76 " E
;
1 Dec. 2018
;
G. M. Kvifte
/
V. Baranov
,
X. Lin
leg.;
Malaise trap
;
NMNW
;
BOLD
specimen code:
NAM 37
;
NAM 19
;
NAM-Chiro 30
;
NAM-Chiro 29
;
BOLD
sequence ID
NAMCH 046-20
;
NAMOE 030-22
;
NAMOE 029-22
;
NAMCH 007-19
BOLD:
ADY 1682
.
Distribution.
This is the first record of this species from
Namibia
(
Freeman 1956
;
Freeman and Cranston 1980
;
Curtis 1991
;
Harrison 2004
;
Ashe and O’Connor 2012
). The species is otherwise known from
Ethiopia
,
Kenya
,
Madagascar
,
South Africa
,
Uganda
,
Zambia
and
Zimbabwe
(
Ashe and O’Connor 2012
).