Chromatoclothoda Ross, 1987

Szumik, Claudia, Pereyra, Veronica, Szumik, Victoria E. Goloboff, Costa-Pinto, Paula Jessica & Juarez, Maria Laura, 2022, Embioptera (Insecta) from Brazil: New species and a taxonomic update, ZooKeys 1088, pp. 129-171 : 129

publication ID

https://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.1088.72910

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:01592987-4A64-4BA8-9D83-0B4A2F162E27

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scientific name

Chromatoclothoda Ross, 1987
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Genus Chromatoclothoda Ross, 1987

Chromatoclothoda Ross, 1987: 26, type species Chromatoclothoda elegantula Ross by original designation; Szumik et al. 2008: 997, cladogram; Miller 2009: 12, catalog; Szumik et al. 2019: 9, tympanal hearing, silk ejectors, leg chaetotaxy, phylogeny.

Diagnosis.

Chromatoclothoda can be distinguished from the other three genera of Clothodidae by having the male left paraproct well developed as a plate (Fig. 47 View Figures 43–47 ), instead having both paraprocts (left and right) subequal (e.g., Ross 1987: fig. 4).

Composition and distribution.

Chromatoclothoda is a South American genus which contains five species exclusively distributed at the Amazon basin (including the new species described below): one Peruvian species, Chromatoclothoda aurata Ross, 1987; C. albicauda Ross, 1987 from Colombia and Ecuador; C. neblina Szumik, 2001 from Venezuela and two Brazilian species, C. elegantula Ross, 1987 and the new species. For C. elegantula new records are added (see Catalog). The Peruvian species, C. nana Ross, 1987 and C. nigricauda Ross, 1987, were recently transferred to the genus Nonaia ( Cui et al. 2020).

Distribution.

South America.

Relationships.

Chromatoclothoda resulted monophyletic in two phylogenetic analyses of the Order ( Szumik et al. 2008, 2019); the species of Chromatoclothoda share the following synapomorphies, all of which are male conditions: Md with one molar tooth; ecdysial suture inconspicuous; medial bladder size less than 40% of the width of the basitarsus; anterolateral face of hind basitarsus with one or two rows of setae; auditory organ of fore femur curved, as a slender band, elongated along the femoral axis. Chromatoclothoda and Clothoda are sister groups ( Szumik et al. 2008, 2019) and are supported by sharing some “absences”, for example, the 10Lp1 is not developed and the 10Rp1 is almost inconspicuous.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Embioptera

Family

Clothodidae

Loc

Chromatoclothoda Ross, 1987

Szumik, Claudia, Pereyra, Veronica, Szumik, Victoria E. Goloboff, Costa-Pinto, Paula Jessica & Juarez, Maria Laura 2022
2022
Loc

Chromatoclothoda

Ross 1987
1987
Loc

Chromatoclothoda elegantula

Ross 1987
1987