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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Georthocladius
(
Georthocladius
)
scaturiginis
(
Goetghebuer, 1940
)
,
comb. nov.
(
Figs 7–12
)
Orthocladius scaturiginis
Goetghebuer, 1940: 62
.
Type material examined.
Orthocladius scaturiginis
:
HOLOTYPE
: ♁ stored in isinglass, now mounted on slide, labelled: ‘
Orthocladius scaturiginis
n. sp.
// type ♁
Goetghebuer
// type locality environ
d’Abisko en Laponie Suédoise
,
Thienemann
, 1939 //
R
.I.SC.N.B. 18.073 /
Coll.
et det.
M. Goetghebuer’
.
Comments.
Orthocladius scaturiginis
was listed among
nomina dubia
in
Orthocladiinae
by
ASHE &
O’CONNOR
(2012)
. The
holotype
male is not well preserved but can be identified as a
Georthocladius
because of the presence of acrostichals and pulvilli (
SAETHER & SUBLETTE
1983); only one broken antenna is present. The species is similar to
Georthocladius platystylus
Saether & Sublette, 1983
.