The problems with Polypedilum Kieffer (Diptera: Chironomidae), with the description of Probolum subgen. n.
Author
Saether, Ole A.
Author
Andersen, Trond
Author
Pinho, Luiz C.
Author
Mendes, Humberto F.
text
Zootaxa
2010
2497
1
36
journal article
10.5281/zenodo.195747
c371f527-f7c6-456b-ab07-5bef541b10e6
1175-5326
195747
Polypedilum
subgenus
Cerobregma
Saether
et
Sundal
Polypedilum
subgenus
Cerobregma
Saether
et
Sundal, 1999
: 334
.
Chironomini
genus C
Pinder
et
Reiss, 1986
: 362
.
Type
species
Polypedilum (Cerobregma) ontario
(Walley)
Chironomus ontario
Walley, 1926
: 206
.
Chironomus hirtipes
Mitchell, 1908
: 9
(preoccupied).
Diagnostic characters.
The male imagines can be separated from those of other subgenera by having extremely long and strong, split setae along inner margin of gonostylus and gonocoxite with apicolateral bulblike extension with deep lateral incision between bulb and gonostylus.
The pupa is separable from that of other subgenera by the large cone-shaped cephalic tubercles, the large anal comb with numerous toothlets, the usual absence of anterior bands of stronger spinules on tergites and segments V and VI with all or some setae non-taeniate.
The larva is distinguished by the triangularly shaped head, unusually small mouth-parts, indistinct striae on the approximately triangular ventromental plates and median teeth of mentum of about equal height.