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 Paraphaenocladius impensus (Walker, 1856) Material examined. Namibia • 1 ♂ ; KHOMAS ; Windhoek , Arebbusch river , Goreangab Reservoir ; 22 ° 31 ' 44.4 " S , 17 ° 0 ' 3.6 " E ; 3 Dec. 2018 ; X. Lin leg.; sweep net ; SHOU ; BOLD specimen code: NAM 83; BOLD sequence ID: NAMCH 067-20 ; BOLD BIN: BOLD : ACK 2655 ;. Distribution. This is the first record of the species from Namibia , but numerous representatives of the same BIN were previously recorded from South Africa ( BOLD : ACK 2655 , Freeman 1956 ; Freeman and Cranston 1980 ; Curtis 1991 ; Harrison 2004 ; Ashe and O’Connor 2012 ). The species is otherwise known from the multiple countries in the Palaearctic, Nearctic and Oriental regions. This is the first Afrotropical record (although the species is recorded from Palaearctic parts of the African continent, i. e. Algeria ) ( Ashe and O’Connor 2012 ).