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
Corynoneura dewulfi
Goetghebuer, 1935
Material examined.
Namibia
•
5 ♂
1 ♀
;
HARDAP
;
Naukluft
Mountain Zebra Park
,
Tufa
waterfalls;
24 ° 15 ' 47.88 " S
,
16 ° 13 ' 44.76 " E
;
1 Dec. 2018
;
G. M. Kwifte
leg.;
sweep net
;
NMNW
.
No specimens of this species were successfully barcoded as a part of this project.
Distribution.
This is the first record of the species from
Namibia
(
Freeman 1956
;
Freeman and Cranston 1980
;
Curtis 1991
;
Harrison 2004
;
Ashe and O’Connor 2012
). The species is otherwise known from D.
R
.
Congo
,
Ethiopia
,
South Africa
,
Tanzania
,
Uganda
and
Zimbabwe
(
Ashe and O’Connor 2012
).