TY - JOUR
T1 - A home at last! Changania choui Tseng, 1965 belongs to Thienemanniella Kieffer, 1911 (Diptera: Chironomidae: Orthocladiinae)
AU - Spies, Martin
AU - Borkent, Art
AU - Cranston, Peter
AU - Lin, Xiao-Long
AU - Tang, Hong-Qu
PY - 2022
Y1 - 2022
N2 - The midge Changania choui Tseng, 1965 (Insecta, Diptera, Nematocera), originally described in the family Cecidomyiidae and recently transferred to the Ceratopogonidae, is recognised as an adult female in the Chironomidae, subfamily Orthocladiinae. The type material is missing, and the published description and illustrations are limited. Although the genus name Changania Tseng, 1965 becomes a new junior synonym of Thienemanniella Kieffer, 1911, Thienemanniella choui (Tseng 1965), new combination, should be treated as a nomen dubium. A combination of two ratios calculated from wing measurements shows promise for taxonomic diagnostics in the grouping of genera around Corynoneura Winnertz.
AB - The midge Changania choui Tseng, 1965 (Insecta, Diptera, Nematocera), originally described in the family Cecidomyiidae and recently transferred to the Ceratopogonidae, is recognised as an adult female in the Chironomidae, subfamily Orthocladiinae. The type material is missing, and the published description and illustrations are limited. Although the genus name Changania Tseng, 1965 becomes a new junior synonym of Thienemanniella Kieffer, 1911, Thienemanniella choui (Tseng 1965), new combination, should be treated as a nomen dubium. A combination of two ratios calculated from wing measurements shows promise for taxonomic diagnostics in the grouping of genera around Corynoneura Winnertz.
U2 - 10.5324/cjcr.v0i35.4596
DO - 10.5324/cjcr.v0i35.4596
M3 - Article
VL - 35
SP - 4
EP - 11
JO - CHIRONOMUS Journal of Chironomidae Research
JF - CHIRONOMUS Journal of Chironomidae Research
ER -