Paracladopelma Harnisch from the Sino-Indian Region (Diptera: Chironomidae)
Author
Yan, Chuncai
Author
Jin, Zhaohui
Author
Wang, Xinhua
text
Zootaxa
2008
1934
1
29
journal article
10.5281/zenodo.184929
f0c73773-d05f-4138-9f2b-e8b762bc54a1
1175-5326
184929
Paracladopelma aratrum
Chaudhuri
et
Chattopadhyay
(
Figs 1–2
)
Paracladopelma aratra
Chaudhuri
et
Chattopadhyay, 1990
: 160
.
Material examined:
Holotype
male (EB),
INDIA
:
West Bengal, Bally,
27.vii.1986
, S. Chattopadhyay.
Diagnostic characters.
The species differs from other
Paracladopelma
species by the absence of frontal tubercles and the plough-like superior volsella bearing 2 setae in outer margin and covered with microtrichia.
Male.
Description as in
Chaudhuri and Chattopadhyay (1990: 160, fig. 26–28)
with the following corrections: eyes with long parallel-sided dorsomedial extension; superior volsella plough-shaped, outer margin with 2 setae, covered with microtrichia; inferior volsella with small rounded lobe, covered with microtrichia. The hypopygium of the
holotype
is re-drawn in
Figures 1–2
.
Distribution.
The species is recorded from
India
.