Parochlus kiefferi ( Garrett, 1925 )

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 : 227

publication ID	https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5613.2.1
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DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15224315
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scientific name	Parochlus kiefferi ( Garrett, 1925 )
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Parochlus kiefferi ( Garrett, 1925) View in CoL *

Garrett, 1925: 8 ( Paratanypus ) [ Canada].

Material examined. Panama, Chiriqui Province, Cuenca 102, Tierras Altas District, Mount Totumas Cloud Forest and Biological Reserve , Quebrada Norte , 1 male, 26–28 December 2017, Malaise trap, leg B. Armitage & J. Dietrich .

Distribution in Neotropics. Costa Rica, Mexico, Panama.

Note. The species belongs to the Parochlus araucanus group, a group of species that cannot be identified with certainty based on male adults alone. The group is distributed in continental South America and apparently only Parochlus kiefferi has spread to the Holarctic region through the mountains in Central America (see Bello-González et al. 2024b). Awaiting more material from Panama, including immatures, we list the species as P. kiefferi (Garret) .

Kingdom	Animalia
Phylum	Arthropoda
Class	Insecta
Order	Diptera
Family	Chironomidae
SubFamily	Podonominae
Genus	Parochlus