Revision of type and non-type material assigned to the genus Orthocladius by Goetghebuer (1940 - 1950), deposited in the Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences (Diptera: Chironomidae)
Author
Magoga, Giulia
) &) &) Università degli Studi di Milano, Dipartimento di Scienze Agrarie e Ambientali (DISAA), via Celoria 2, I 20133, Milano, Italia; e-mails: giulia. magoga @ unimi. it; matteo. montagna @ unimi. it
Author
Montagna, Matteo
) &) &) Università degli Studi di Milano, Dipartimento di Scienze Agrarie e Ambientali (DISAA), via Celoria 2, I 20133, Milano, Italia; e-mails: giulia. magoga @ unimi. it; matteo. montagna @ unimi. it
Author
Marziali, Laura
) &) Water Research Institute, National Research Council (IRSA-CNR), Via del Mulino 19, I 20861 Brugherio (MB), Italy; e-mail: marziali @ irsa. cnr. it
Author
Rossaro, Bruno
) &) Università degli Studi di Milano, Dipartimento di Scienze per gli Alimenti, la Nutrizione e l’Ambiente (DeFENS), Via Celoria 2, I 20133 Milan, Italy; e-mail: bruno. rossaro @ unimi. it
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Disaa
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Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae
2017
Acta. Ent. Mus. Natl. Pragae
2017-12-31
57
2
723
749
http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/aemnp-2017-0097
journal article
10.1515/aemnp-2017-0097
0374-1036
5318416
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Hydrobaenus conformis
(Holmgren, 1869)
Chironomus conformis
Holmgren, 1869: 42
.
Orthocladius obesus
Goetghebuer, 1940: 60
.
Type material examined.
Orthocladius obesus
:
HOLOTYPE
: pinned
♂
, now mounted on slide, labelled: ‘
Orthocladius obesus
n. sp.
// type
♂
/
M. Goetghebuer
// type locality
Abisko Lapp Sved Thienemann
1939 //
R
.I.SC.N.B. 18.073 /
Coll.
et det.
M. Goetghebuer’
.
Figs 7‒12.
Georthocladius scaturiginis
(
Goetghebuer, 1940
)
. 7 ‒ claws and pulvilli, 8 ‒ thorax, 9 ‒ wing points, 10 ‒ anal point, 11 ‒ inferior volsella, 12 ‒ gonostylus.
Comments.
The synonymy of
O. obesus
with
H. conformis
was already proposed by
SAETHER (1976)
, even if the type material was probably not examined; the present examination of the
holotype
confirms the synonym.