Macropelopia fehlmani Kieffer

Michailova, Paraskeva, Kownacki, Andrzej, Woźnicka, Olga, White, Keith, Dean, Andrew & Szarek-Gwiazda, Ewa, 2014, Macropelopia nebulosa group (Diptera, Chironomidae, Tanypodinae) — karyotype and morphology of larvae and pupae, Zootaxa 3852 (1), pp. 83-100 : 98

Macropelopia fehlmani Kieffer

Larvae description according to Zavřel-Thienemann (1919).

Pupae 8.2–9.3 mm long. Thoracic horn ( Figure 15 C) 310–820 µm long, apically rounded, covered with scales, plastron plate is circular, lying in the rounded horn apex, plastron index 0.2–0.25, but often plastron plate of this species is reduced ( Langton 1991). Dorsal setae D1 arising from a low tubercle on tergites II–VII, setae D2–D5 straight, no longer than seta D1 ( Figures 15 D1, 15D2). Segment IV ventral with 3 setae on each site ( Figure 15 D3).

Adult males. Description according to Fittkau (1962).

Ecology and distribution. Alpine lakes in Austria, Germany, Italy and Switzerland

Figures

FIGURE 15. Macropelopia paranebulosa Fittkau; A—thoracic horn from different locality; B—segment VII – IX dorsal (according to Makarchenko, Petrova 1988); Macropelopia fehlmanni (Kieffer) C—different type of thoracic horn; D 1 — segment IV dorsal; D 2 — dorsal setae 1 – 5 of tergite IV; D 3 — segment IV ventral (according to Fittkau 1962 and Langton 1991).