A review of Antillocladius Saether and Litocladius Mendes, Andersen et Saether, with the description of two new Neotropical genera (Diptera, Chironomidae, Orthocladiinae)
Author
Mendes, Humberto Fonseca
Author
Andersen, Trond
text
Zootaxa
2008
2008-09-29
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https://biotaxa.org/Zootaxa/article/view/zootaxa.1887.1.1
journal article
10.11646/zootaxa.1887.1.1
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Antillocladius scalpellatus
Wang
et
Saether
Antillocladius scalpellatus
Wang and Saether, 1993: 228
,
Fig. 1
;
Wang (2000: 634)
;
Tiunova
et al
. (2003: 66)
;
Mendes
et al
. (2004: 49)
.
Material examined:
Type
material as in
Wang and Saether (1993)
.
Diagnostic characters:
The male can be separated from all other members of the genus by having several apical setae on the wing membrane; setose squama; costa barely extended; acrostichals starting in front, anterior ones hair-like, posterior ones scalpellate; a short virga; anal point long, tapering, with strong lateral setae; and inferior volsella prominent, rectangular.
Remarks:
Antillocladius pluspilalus
,
A. yakyijeus
,
A. scalpellatus
and
A. subnubilus
are only separable on the size of the virga and the chaetotaxy of squama and cell m
3+4
. See
A. pluspilalus
for comments.
Distribution:
The species is recorded from
China
(
Guangdong
) and the Russian Far East (
Wang & Saether 1993
; Tiunova
et al.
2000).