A review of Norwegian Gymnometriocnemus (Diptera, Chironomidae) including the description of two new species and a new name for Gymnometriocnemusvolitans (Goetghebuer) sensu Brundin
Author
Stur, Elisabeth
Author
Ekrem, Torbjorn
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ZooKeys
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http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.508.9874
journal article
http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.508.9874
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Taxon classification Animalia Diptera Chironomidae
Chaetocladius volitans (Goetghebuer, 1940)
comb. n.
Metriocnemus volitans
Goetghebuer, 1940: 59.
Metriocnemus volitans
Goetghebuer in
Thienemann (1941
: 150, 172).
Remarks.
Several of the type specimens are quite damaged and many characters are difficult or impossible to observe (Figs 1-2). However, it is obvious that they do not belong to
Gymnometriocnemus
, and the better preserved male specimens show characters that fits the diagnosis of
Chaetocladius
: wings with coarse punctuation and without macrotrichia on the membrane (Fig. 1D), divergent lateral spinules on the tibial spurs (Fig. 1C) and a fore leg ratio of 0.75. We are confident that this species should be placed in
Chaetocladius
, but due to the state of the specimens and the unrevised nature of the genus, we have not attempted to compare
Chaetocladius volitans
with other species in
Chaetocladius
.
Figure 2. Syntype of
Metriocnemus volitans
, hypopygium (scale bar = 100
µm
).