Harnischia

Harnischia
Harnischia curtilamellata
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Clade: Pancrustacea
Class: Insecta
Order: Diptera
Family: Chironomidae
Tribe: Chironomini
Genus: Harnischia
Kieffer, 1921
Type species
Harnischia fuscimana
Kieffer, 1921

Harnischia is a genus of non-biting midges in the subfamily Chironominae of the bloodworm family Chironomidae.[1] The genus was first described in 1921 by Jean-Jacques Kieffer.[1][2]

The type species is Harnischia fuscimana Kieffer, 1921.[3]

Species

(listed by BioLob - June 2026)[4]

  • Harnischia albimanus Harnisch, 1923
  • Harnischia angularis Albu & Botnariuc, 1966
  • Harnischia atrophus (Kieffer, 1913)
  • Harnischia biwacurtus Kawai, Okamoto & Imabayashi, 2002
  • Harnischia bulbosa Mukherjee & Hazra, 2023
  • Harnischia burganadzae (Chernovsky, 1949)
  • Harnischia cultriata Wang, 1999
  • Harnischia curtilamellata (Malloch, 1915)
  • Harnischia daitoheia Sasa & Suzuki, 2001
  • Harnischia disseta Zhang & Ferrington, 2017
  • Harnischia falcata (Thienemann & Kieffer, 1916)
  • Harnischia fuscimana Kieffer, 1921
  • Harnischia ginzandeeus Sasa & Suzuki, 2001
  • Harnischia hamata Wang, Zheng & Ji, 1993
  • Harnischia inawacedea Sasa, Kitami & Suzuki, 2000
  • Harnischia incidata Townes, 1945
  • Harnischia japonica Hashimoto, 1984
  • Harnischia lacteiforceps (Kieffer, 1923)
  • Harnischia lacustris (Haliday, 1840)
  • Harnischia latidentata (Konstantinov, 1948)
  • Harnischia longispuria Wang, Zheng & Ji, 1993
  • Harnischia minuta Dutta & Chaudhuri, 1996
  • Harnischia mutila (Goetghebuer, 1921)
  • Harnischia ohmuraensis Kobayashi & Suzuki, 1999
  • Harnischia orissae (Kieffer, 1913)
  • Harnischia parallela Yan & Wang, 2016
  • Harnischia sibacedea Sasa, Sumita & Suzuki, 1999
  • Harnischia simantocedea Sasa, Suzuki & Sakai, 1998
  • Harnischia tenuitubercula Chaudhuri & Chattopadhyay, 1990
  • Harnischia turgidula Wang, Zheng & Ji, 1993
  • Harnischia westenbergi (Kruseman, 1939)

Further reading

  • Chun-Cai Yan; Qin Guo; Ting Liu; Wei Guo; Xin-Hua Wang; Bao-Ping Pan (21 November 2016). "Review of the genus Harnischia Kieffer from China (Diptera, Chironomidae), with description of one new species". ZooKeys. 634 (634): 79–99. doi:10.3897/zookeys.634.10323. ISSN 1313-2989. PMC 5126532. PMID 27917051. Wikidata Q28818432.
  • Laville, H. & Reiss, F. (1988) Rheomus, un nouveau genre du complexe Harnischia avec deux nouvelles especes d'Afrique du nord (Diptera, Chironomidae) Supplement Spixiana. 14: 183-190
  • Xinyu Ge; Jiaxin Nie; Yaning Tang; Ziming Shao; Wenbin Liu; Chuncai Yan (19 January 2026). "Phylogeny of the Harnischia generic complex (Diptera, Chironomidae) inferred from twenty whole mitogenomes". ZooKeys. 1266: 353–366. doi:10.3897/zookeys.1266.162901. ISSN 1313-2989. Wikidata Q140370937.

References

  1. 1 2 "Harnischia Kieffer, 1921 | COL". www.catalogueoflife.org. Retrieved 2026-06-27.
  2. ↑ Kieffer JJ. (1921) Chironomidea nouveaux ou peu connus de la region paléarctique. Bulletin de la Société d’Histoire naturelle de Moselle 29: 51–109
  3. ↑ Chun-Cai Yan; Qin Guo; Ting Liu; Wei Guo; Xin-Hua Wang; Bao-Ping Pan (21 November 2016). "Review of the genus Harnischia Kieffer from China (Diptera, Chironomidae), with description of one new species". ZooKeys. 634 (634): 79–99. doi:10.3897/zookeys.634.10323. ISSN 1313-2989. PMC 5126532. PMID 27917051. Wikidata Q28818432.
  4. ↑ Zicha, Ondrej. "BioLib: Biological library: Harnischia Kieffer, 1921". www.biolib.cz. Archived from the original on 2024-12-09. Retrieved 2026-06-27.