Cladotanytarsus Kieffer (Diptera: Chironomidae): several distinctive species reviewed on the basis of records from Canada and USA
Author
Puchalski, Mateusz
Author
Giłka, Wojciech
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Zootaxa
2017
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journal article
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Cladotanytarsus sagittifer
Giłka
Cladotanytarsus sagittifer
Giłka, 2009
:
Giłka 2009a
: 671
(adult male,
UAE
).
Material
examined.
Holotype
and
paratypes
(
Giłka 2009a
).
UNITED ARAB EMIRATES
.
Al Wathba Wetland Reserve
(
AWWR
),
October 2014, 1
male
,
June 2015, 1
male,
Malaise traps
, leg. A. Saji & A. van Harten. Deposit in DIZP.
Remarks.
Adult males of this peculiar species have an extremely elongated, sagittate and darkly pigmented hypopygial anal point lacking crests and spinulae (
Giłka 2009a, figs 13, 14
).
Cladotanytarsus sagittifer
has so far been known from three sites in the
United Arab Emirates
. The present record comes from the Al Wathba Wetland Reserve (
40 km
SE of
Abu Dhabi
) - one of the most important inland wetlands in the
UAE
, waterlogged during the winter months, presumably the result of sub-surface flow and hydrostatic back-up during spring high tides (
Soorae
et al
. 2014
).