A review of Boreoheptagyia Brundin, 1966 (Chironomidae: Diamesinae) from East Asia and bordering territories, with the description of five new species
Author
Makarchenko, Eugenyi A.
Institute of Biology and Soil Sciences, Russian Academy of Sciences, Far East Branch, 100 let Vladivostoku Avenue, Vladivostok 690022 Russia. E-mail: makarchenko @ biosoil. ru Koporasu-Tamura-C, Minami-machi Higashi- 5 - 1 - 14, Obihiro, Hokkaido 080 - 0855, Japan. E-mail: endito @ snow. plala. or. jp Life Science College of Nankai University, Tianjin, 300071 China. E-mail: xhwang @ nankai. edu. cn Corresponding author
Author
Endo, Kazuo
Author
Wu, Jingyang
Author
Wang, Xinhua
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Zootaxa
2008
2008-07-07
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https://biotaxa.org/Zootaxa/article/view/zootaxa.1817.1.1
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10.11646/zootaxa.1817.1.1
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Boreoheptagyia kurobebrevis
(Sasa
et
Okazawa)
(
Fig. 21
)
Diamesa kurobebrevis
Sasa
et
Okazawa, 1992: 58
.
Toyamadiamesa kurobebrevis
(Sasa
et
Okazawa)
;
Sasa and Kikuchi (1995: 205)
.
Boreoheptagyia kurobebrevis
(Sasa
et
Okazawa)
;
Endo (2002: 12)
.
FIGURE 21.
Hypopygium of
Boreoheptagyia kurobebrevis
(
Sasa
et
Okazawa, 1992
)
(holotype), dorsal view.
Diagnostic characters.
Total length
3.34 mm
. Wing length
1.68 mm
. Coloration: ground color of scutum yellow, stripes and postnotum dark brown, scutellum brown, abdominal tergites almost uniformly yellow, hypopygium dark brown, femora yellow in basal three-quarter with brown ring apically, tibiae pale medially with brown rings in basal one-fifth and distal one-third. Antenna very short, with 5 flagellomeres (
Fig. 34
). AR 0.64. Acrostichals
28 in
2 rows, dorsocentrals
28 in
1–3 rows, not separated in anterior and posterior groups, prealars 10. Scutellum with about 50 setae. LR
1
0.67, LR
2
0.58, LR
3
0.66. Hypopygium as in
Figure 21
. Gonostylus with 2 megasetae.
Remarks.
The male can be separated from all other known species of
Boreoheptagyia
by the extremely short antenna with 5 flagellomeres and by the high AR. The hypopygium of the
holotype
is squeezed and additional material is needed to study this interesting species in detail.
Distribution.
The species is known only from the
type
locality, the Kurobe River Basin in Honshu,
Japan
.