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: 84
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1P♂ and 2Le,
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, the Bay of St. Lazarus, near Taipa Houses Museum,
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(H.Q. Tang); 2Pe and 8L, same locality,
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, (H.Q. Tang); 35Pe,
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, artificial ecology park of Alto de Coloane,
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(H.Q. Tang); 3P♂ and 2L,
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, Guangxi, Hezhou city, Fulong,
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(J.G. Zhao) (all
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Head capsule yellow, with dark-brown postmentum. Mentum and mandible teeth dark brown. Occipital margin dark.
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Dorsal surface of head (
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A). Frontoclypeus with a narrow hyaline band, surrounded the broadened apex.
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Antenna (
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B) pale yellow, with reduced third and fifth segment, segment 2 and 4 relative long. Antennal blade extending beyond the terminal of flagellum.
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<paragraph id="8F5754436D0DFFEAFF0EFECFFD3CFE4D" blockId="8.[151,1437,151,2013]" pageId="8" pageNumber="424">Labrum. SI and SII fine plumose. Pecten epipharyngis consists of 3 scales, each scale with 3 teeth. Premandible with 2 apical teeth and brush present.</paragraph>
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Mandible (
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C). With 1 apical, 1 dorsal and 2 inner teeth, the length of apical tooth subequal to the combined width of 2 inner teeth. Seta subdentalis almost reaching the second inner teeth. Mola with 23 sharp spines.
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Mentum (
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D) with 2 median teeth and 7 laterals, the location of outermost laterals relative low, the fourth laterals lower than the neighboring teeth giving the appearance of the relative greater elevation of fifth and sixth laterals. Ventromentum wider than the mentum, with the medially-directed pointed apex. Striae crowded in dense basally, 56 striae about 5 µm wide, total about 40 striae. Inter-plate distance about subequal to the width of two median teeth.
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Body. Procercus golden brown, with 78 anal seta. Anal tube with a constriction in the middle. Mensural features as in
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.
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<emphasis id="BD9C88516D0DFFEAFF0EFD7FFEA6FCDF" bold="true" box="[199,340,764,789]" pageId="8" pageNumber="424">Pupa (n=5).</emphasis>
Pupal exuviae pale yellow, apophyses brown. Cephalic tubercles present, the height equal to the width; frontal setae long, more than 2 times as long as the height of cephalic tubercles. Mid-thorax with one row of sparse granules near suture.
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Abdomen (
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C &amp; 6D). Hook row II 0.470.63, 0.56 times as wide as corresponding tergite width. Tergites IIVI with obvious anterior transverse bands of points stronger than those of the posterior patch and conjunctive patch, median armament greatly reduced. Posterior patch of tergites IIIVI consist of 2 separated sub-patches. Spinulation of tergite II continuous, a relative larger anterior transverse band of points fused broadly with the postero-median trapezoidal patch of small spinules. Tergite VII and VIII only with 2 anterolateral small patches, without trace of median patch.
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Conjunctives present in tergite III/IV and IV/V, with spinules about the same size as that of median bands, medially usually interrupted in conjunctives III/IV or weakly connected in IV/V. The number of teeth in conjunctive III/IV varied greatly, ranging from 936 and
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two parts separately, the gap about half width to whole width of each part (
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C &amp; H). Comb of segment VIII composed of 38 golden spines (
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EG), often with one largest spine posteriorly. Lateral taeniae of segments IVVIII: 0, 3, 3, 4, 4. Mensural features as in
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.
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<paragraph id="8F5754436D0DFFEAFF0EFA94FD52F9C2" blockId="8.[151,1437,151,2013]" pageId="8" pageNumber="424">
<emphasis id="BD9C88516D0DFFEAFF0EFA94FEC9FAFA" bold="true" box="[199,315,1303,1328]" pageId="8" pageNumber="424">Remarks.</emphasis>
Larvae of
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<emphasis id="BD9C88516D0DFFEAFE08FA9AFDCDFAFA" box="[449,575,1303,1328]" italics="true" pageId="8" pageNumber="424">P. masudai</emphasis>
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cannot be separated with certainty from other members of
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<emphasis id="BD9C88516D0DFFEAFB37FA9AFA69FAFA" box="[1278,1435,1303,1328]" italics="true" pageId="8" pageNumber="424">P. bicrenatum</emphasis>
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group in Europe (Kiknidze
<emphasis id="BD9C88516D0DFFEAFE03FABEFE09FA9F" box="[458,507,1340,1365]" italics="true" pageId="8" pageNumber="424">et al</emphasis>
. 1999,
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) or
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<emphasis id="BD9C88516D0DFFEAFD32FABEFC89FA9F" box="[763,891,1340,1365]" italics="true" pageId="8" pageNumber="424">P. halterale</emphasis>
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group in North
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(
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) which has a similar reduced third and fifth antennal segment. However, the heavy sclerotized dark postmentum and the relative low position of 4th mental laterals is distinctive compared to all described
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<emphasis id="BD9C88516D0DFFEAFB85FA07FB4CFA57" box="[1100,1214,1412,1437]" italics="true" pageId="8" pageNumber="424">Tripodura</emphasis>
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larvae. Pupae of
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<emphasis id="BD9C88516D0DFFEAFA4EFA06FF04FA0A" italics="true" pageId="8" pageNumber="424">P. masudai</emphasis>
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resembles
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<emphasis id="BD9C88516D0DFFEAFEB3FA2AFE01FA0A" box="[378,499,1447,1472]" italics="true" pageId="8" pageNumber="424">P. digitifer</emphasis>
Townes
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in the reduced median spinulation on tergites IIIVI and posterior transverse band with the relatively well separated two patches, but the latter can be separated by the reduced cephalic tubercles (
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).
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<emphasis id="BD9C88516D0DFFEAFF0EF997FED5F9E7" bold="true" box="[199,295,1556,1581]" pageId="8" pageNumber="424">Biology.</emphasis>
Larvae of
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<emphasis id="BD9C88516D0DFFEAFE67F996FDC1F9E7" box="[430,563,1556,1581]" italics="true" pageId="8" pageNumber="424">P. nodosum</emphasis>
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are found in the bottom sediment of lentic waterbodies (
<bibRefCitation id="EB7929B26D0DFFEAFB12F997FA6AF9E6" author="Johannsen" box="[1243,1432,1556,1581]" pageId="8" pageNumber="424" refString="Johannsen, O. A. (1932) Chironomidae of the Malayan subregion of the Dutch East Indies. Archiv fur Hydrobiologie, Supplement, 11, 503 - 552." type="journal article" year="1932">Johannsen 1932</bibRefCitation>
,
<bibRefCitation id="EB7929B26D0DFFEAFF5EF9B4FEB5F99A" author="Tokunaga" box="[151,327,1591,1616]" pageId="8" pageNumber="424" refString="Tokunaga, M. (1964) Insect of Micronesia (Diptera, Chironomidae). Insect of Micronesia, 12, 485 - 628." type="journal article" year="1964">Tokunaga 1964</bibRefCitation>
,
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). Our collections from the
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ponds came from substrates consisting of dense detritus and fine mud, perhaps representing a mesotrophic to eutrophic condition. Other common chironomids in these ponds included
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<emphasis id="BD9C88516D0DFFEAFD99F9FCFC9AF952" box="[592,872,1663,1688]" italics="true" pageId="8" pageNumber="424">Chironomus flaviplumus</emphasis>
Tokunaga 1940
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,
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<emphasis id="BD9C88516D0DFFEAFBF1F9FCFAAFF952" box="[1080,1373,1663,1688]" italics="true" pageId="8" pageNumber="424">Glyptotendipes tokunagai</emphasis>
Sasa 1979
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,
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<emphasis id="BD9C88516D0DFFEAFF2CF927FE01F977" box="[229,499,1700,1725]" italics="true" pageId="8" pageNumber="424">Harnischia longispuria</emphasis>
Wang &amp; Zheng 1993
</taxonomicName>
,
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<emphasis id="BD9C88516D0DFFEAFCD5F926FBDAF976" box="[796,1064,1700,1724]" italics="true" pageId="8" pageNumber="424">Tanytarsus formosanus</emphasis>
Kieffer 1912
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and
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<emphasis id="BD9C88516D0DFFEAFADDF926FA6EF977" box="[1300,1436,1700,1725]" italics="true" pageId="8" pageNumber="424">T. oscillans</emphasis>
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. Larvae occur massively in shallow areas during colder months, but in deeper areas during the summer.
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In
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a survey across hundreds of water bodies, including standing, running and waterfalls, larval
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<emphasis id="BD9C88516D0DFFEAFA4EF892FF0EF887" italics="true" pageId="8" pageNumber="424">P. nodosum</emphasis>
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were found only in Andaman Sea coastal pools that were created as post-impact features of the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami (
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,
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). Sites varied in conductivity from 45 to 1650 µS and with dissolved solids from 23 to 821 ppm. The species was not found in any unimpacted site across the whole country (
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). Evidently the species tolerates high levels of salinity and nutrients, but also can be a pioneering or colonizing species, being found in artificial tanks and water storage reservoirs in
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and artificial research channels in Queensland,
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(P.S. Cranston
<emphasis id="BD9C88516D0CFFEBFC5BFF1AFC30FF7A" box="[914,962,153,176]" italics="true" pageId="9" pageNumber="425">pers</emphasis>
.
<emphasis id="BD9C88516D0CFFEBFC18FF14FC0AFF7A" box="[977,1016,151,176]" italics="true" pageId="9" pageNumber="425">obs</emphasis>
.). The species is found only in warm waters (
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2832°C) and is associated generally with tropical to subtropical regions of Asia and Australasia.
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After checking all the published collecting sites from Okinawa to Queensland, we found that the distribution of
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<emphasis id="BD9C88516D0CFFEBFF5EFE86FEE5FED7" box="[151,279,260,285]" italics="true" pageId="9" pageNumber="425">P. nodosum</emphasis>
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is almost entirely restricted to the lentic habitat where the site is very close to ocean or coastal regions. All collected dates of pupae and adults indicated that the species is multivoltine, emerging from autumn to the next spring.
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Specimens of
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<emphasis id="BD9C88516D0CFFEBFEA0FEF2FE14FE42" box="[361,486,367,392]" italics="true" pageId="9" pageNumber="425">P. masudai</emphasis>
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described here were collected from
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ponds and the Hejiang River, Guangxi, thus it perhaps can inhabit both lentic and lotic water bodies. Those sites usually had muddy to mud-sandy substrates. Based on the seasonal investigation in
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, it appears that
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<emphasis id="BD9C88516D0CFFEBFC36FE3AFB8DFE1A" box="[1023,1151,439,464]" italics="true" pageId="9" pageNumber="425">P. masudai</emphasis>
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is one of the relatively abundant macroinvertebrate species in the cold months. Emergence records indicate that the species is multivoltine. Adults emerge from January to March in
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and in August in Hejiang, Guangxi.
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