A revision of the genera Pseudosmittia Edwards, 1932, Allocladius Kieffer, 1913, and Hydrosmittia gen. n. (Diptera: Chironomidae, Orthocladiinae) 2849
Author
Ferrington Jr, Leonard C.
Author
Saether, Ole A.
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Zootaxa
2011
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https://biotaxa.org/Zootaxa/article/view/zootaxa.2849.1.1
journal article
10.11646/zootaxa.2849.1.1
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Pseudosmittia bifurcata
(Tokunaga)
(
Fig. 106 G
)
Spaniotoma
(
Smittia
)
bifurcata
Tokunaga, 1936:310
.
Spaniotoma
(
Orthosmittia
)
bifurcata
(Tokunaga)
; Goetghebuer 1943:110.
Pseudosmittia bifurcata
(Tokunaga)
;
Saether 2006: 27
.
Pseudosmittia ogasatridecima
Sasa
et
Kikuchi, 1997b: 335
;
Yamamoto, 2004: 89
.
Material examined:
KIRIBATI
:
Kiritinati
(
Christmas Island
),
Setflewent
,
10.25
o
S
,
105.41
o
E
,
yellow trap
,
1males
,
11–30.iv.1989
,
J.S. Carsdale
(
CSIRO
).
Other
material as in
Saether (2006: 27)
.
Diagnostic characters
: The species is easily separable from other members of the group by having an inferior volsella with a proximal enlargement, a strong apical antennal seta, single spur on mid tibia, 7 antepronotals and 22 dorsocentrals.
The male imago is redescribed by
Saether (2006: 27)
.
Ecology and distribution
Tokunaga (1936: 311)
gives the habitat as the tidal zone of a gravely shore. The species is known from
Japan
including the Bonin (Ogasawara) Islands and from Kiritinati (
Christmas Island
).