Paratendipes Kieffer, 1911

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 : 213

publication ID	https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5613.2.1
publication LSID	lsid:zoobank.org:pub:CA7C2AC5-1F69-448F-B686-511FA33FF06E
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15224224
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/1C04CD04-6E3A-FF97-FF51-21C3FD6EA0B7
treatment provided by	Plazi
scientific name	Paratendipes Kieffer, 1911
status

Treatment

Genus Paratendipes Kieffer, 1911 View in CoL

A genus of nearly 40 named species that occur in the Afrotropical and Oriental regions and in the Holarctic realm ( Qi et al. 2009). For South America there are only records of unnamed species ( Roque et al. 2004; Trivinho-Strixino 2011). The larvae are found in lakes, ponds, small water bodies, bogs, and hot springs and in streams and rivers in soft sediments and sandy bottoms ( Epler et al. 2013).

References

Copyright notice

No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.

Taxonomy

Kingdom	Animalia
Phylum	Arthropoda
Class	Insecta
Order	Diptera
Family	Chironomidae
SubFamily	Chironominae
Tribe	Chironomini

Specimens

Downloads & Links

GBIF Dataset (for parent article) Darwin Core Archive (for parent article) View in SIBiLS Plain XML RDF

Version History

Contribution History

Report Problem

Create Feedback Ticket