Qiniella

Taxobox
name = "Qiniella"
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Arthropoda
classis = Insecta
subclassis = Pterygota
infraclassis = Neoptera
superordo = Endopterygota
ordo = Diptera
subordo = Nematocera
infraordo = Culicomorpha
superfamilia = Chironomoidea
familia = Chironomidae
subfamilia = Orthocladiinae
genus = "Qiniella"
genus_authority = Wang & Sæther, 1998The genus "Qiniella" was described by Wang & Sæther in 1998 for a single species, "Q. lii", recorded from China. Posteriorly, Mendes and Andersen described two additional species, "Q. copa" and "Q. thai", from Malaysia and Thailand respectively.

Only the male adults are known, but "Q. copa" was collected high in the tree canopies in Malaysia, suggesting that this genus has terrestrial immature forms.

References

*Mendes, H.F. & Anderse, T. 2002. Two new species of Qiniella Wang & Sæther (Diptera: Chironomidae) from Southeast Asia. Tidsch. Entomol. 145: 89-93.
*Wang, X. & Sæther, O.A. 1998. Qiniella, a new orthoclad genus from China (Diptera: Chironomidae). Hydrobiologia 362: 103-106.