Macropelopia paranebulosa Fittkau 1962

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 : 97

Macropelopia paranebulosa Fittkau 1962

Larvae 14–14.5 mm long; cephalic index 0.72–0.76, no more features which would permit differentiation of these larvae from Macropelopia nebulosa ( Makarchenko & Petrova 1988) .

Pupae 6.8 mm (male), 9.2 mm (female) long, yellow brown, with abdominal pigmentation patterns similar to M. nebulosa . Dorsal edge of thorax wrinkled. Thoracic horn ( Figure 15 A), 592– 882 µm long, covered with small scales, plastron plate kidney-shape, 2.5x wide a s long, index of plastron plate 0.14–0.22. On the tergites of II–VI setae D1 arise from a large tubercle, on tergite VII the tubercles are small or reduced, setae D3 straight. Segment VII with 6 taeniate L setae, VIII with 5. Anal lobe with fringe setae (84–88) ( Figure 15 B).

Description. Tokunaga (1939) (as M. nebulosa ), Fittkau (1962), Makarchenko & Petrova (1988).

Adult males. Description according to Makarchenko, Petrova (1988).

Ecology and distribution. Streams in Japan, Russia, Sakhalin, and Far East.

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).