Saetheria Jackson, 1977

Orel, Oksana V., 2014, To systematics of the genus Saetheria Jackson (Diptera, Chironomidae) from the Russian Far East, Zootaxa 3802 (1), pp. 65-74 : 66

Saetheria Jackson, 1977

Saetheria Jackson, 1977: 1325 .

Type species: Harnischia (Cladopelma) tylus Townes, 1945

Other included species: S. digitata Yan et al., 2011 , S. glabra Yan et al., 2011 , S. hirta Saether, 1983 , S. reissi Jackson, 1977 , S. separate Yan et al., 2011 , S. tamanipparai ( Sasa, 1983) .

Emended diagnosis. Male: as in Cranston et al. (1989: 410) with the following emendations: wing length 2.0– 2.4 mm; AR 1.81–2.10; antepronotals 1–5, acrostichals 6–11, dorsocentrals 6–13, supraalar 1–2, prealars 2–5; squama with 2–10 setae; superior volsella consist of bare dorsal lobe with a finger-shaped sclerotized projection and ventral lobe covered with microtrichia and bearing 2 setae.

Pupa: as in Pinder and Reiss (1986: 350) with the following emendations: sternite IV with weak median shagreen; segment I with 1 L seta.

Fourth instar larva: as in Epler et al. (2013: 434) with the following emendations: SIII hair-like.