The chironomid midge Micropsectra manistee Taber is described from the western Lower Peninsula of Michigan. Numerous adult males and females were collected in a Malaise trap in late April in a paper birch-red maple-black ash-black cherry woods. The new species belongs to a scarcely studied genus but appears to be most closely related to the flies of the Micropsectra recurvata Goetghebuer species group as indicated by male terminalia.
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1 March 2012
A New Nearctic Species of Micropsectra Kieffer Midge (Diptera: Chironomidae)
Stephen W. Taber
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Southwestern Entomologist
Vol. 37 • No. 1
March 2012
Vol. 37 • No. 1
March 2012