Parachironomus longistilus Paggi 1977

Parachironomus longistilus Paggi, 1977 Paggi, 1977: 200 [Argentina]; Spies & Reiss (1996: 71 as P. supparilis (Edwards, 1931)), see Spies et al. (1994: 81), Spies (2008: 174). Material recorded. Panama, Colon Province, Gamboa, 1 male, 2 January 1984, leg W. Nentwig, det. F. Reiss [ZSM] (M. Spies, pers. comm.). Panamá Oeste Province, Canal Zone, Barro Colorado Island, 1 male, 22 February 1986, light trap, leg H. Malicky, det. F. Reiss [ZSM] (M. Spies, pers. comm.). Distribution in Neotropics. Argentina, Panama. Notes. Spies et al. (1994) treated Parachironomus supparilis (Edwards, 1931) as a “superspecies”. However, Spies (2008) stated that the treatment of P. supparilis (Edwards) as a superspecies is untenable and split the species in three separately valid species: P. supparilis (Edwards) distributed in the southern Andean eastern slope south to Tierra del Fuego, P. valdiviensis Spies, 2008 from two localities in southern and central Chile and P. longistilus Paggi, 1977 distributed from northeast Argentina north to southeast U.S.A. One of the specimens from Panama was collected in connection with a study on the feeding ecology of the tropical spitting spider Scytodes longipes (Nentwig 1985).