Nandeva tropica Wiedenbrug, Reiss et Fittkau, 1998

Armitage, Brian J., Andersen, Trond, Giłka, Wojciech, Castillo Sánchez, Kayla N., Ríos González, Tomás A. & Aguirre, Yusseff P., 2025, The Diptera of Panama. II. A first benchmark for the family Chironomidae, Zootaxa 5613 (2), pp. 201-240 : 218

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scientific name	Nandeva tropica Wiedenbrug, Reiss et Fittkau, 1998
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Nandeva tropica Wiedenbrug, Reiss et Fittkau, 1998 View in CoL

Wiedenbrug, Reiss et Fittkau, 1998: 64 [ Brazil]; Saether & Roque (2004: 68); Andersen et al. (2011: 55, fig. 25).

Material recorded. Panama, Panamá Oeste Province , Canal Zone, Barro Colorado Island, 1 male, 6 February–25 March 1986, leg H. Malicky [ ZSM] ( Saether & Roque 2004) .

Distribution in Neotropics. Brazil, Panama, Venezuela.

Note. The species was originally described based on pupa exuviae only. Saether & Roque (2004: 68) described the male, and Andersen et al. (2011: 55, fig. 25) illustrated the male superior volsella. However, there are no direct association between the pupal exuviae and the male. According to Saether & Roque (2004) the males they described are all from the same localities and collected at the same dates as the pupal exuviae types and they assumed that they belong to N. tropica . Further, the specimen from Panama has a less distinct banding pattern on the posterior tergites, is lacking the antenna and could conceivably belong to a separate species.