Mesosmittia truncata Saether, 1985

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 : 225

publication ID

https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5613.2.1

publication LSID

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DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15216666

persistent identifier

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scientific name

Mesosmittia truncata Saether, 1985
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Mesosmittia truncata Saether, 1985 View in CoL

Saether, 1985: 51 [ Panama; holotype in British Museum of Natural History, Type no.: BM 1979-125]; Spies & Reiss (1996: 77), Ashe & O’Connor (2012: 371).

Material recorded. Panama, Colon, Canal Zone , 1 male (holotype), 2–14 July 1979, canopy fogging, leg E. Broadhead et al. ( Saether 1985) .

Distribution in Neotropics. Panama.

Note. Based on material collected in Zuruquí, Costa Rica, Epler (2017) could not separate Mesosmittia truncata from M. patrihortae Saether, 1986 and considered M. truncata to be a junior synonym of M. patrihortae .

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Diptera

Family

Chironomidae

SubFamily

Orthocladiinae

Genus

Mesosmittia

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