Antillocladius scalpellatus Wang et Saether

Mendes, Humberto Fonseca & Andersen, Trond, 2008, A review of Antillocladius Saether and Litocladius Mendes, Andersen et Saether, with the description of two new Neotropical genera (Diptera, Chironomidae, Orthocladiinae), Zootaxa 1887 (1), pp. 1-75 : 36

Antillocladius scalpellatus Wang et Saether

Antillocladius scalpellatus Wang and Saether, 1993: 228 , Fig. 1 ; Wang (2000: 634); Tiunova et al. (2003: 66); Mendes et al. (2004: 49) .

Material examined: Type material as in Wang and Saether (1993).

Diagnostic characters: The male can be separated from all other members of the genus by having several apical setae on the wing membrane; setose squama; costa barely extended; acrostichals starting in front, anterior ones hair-like, posterior ones scalpellate; a short virga; anal point long, tapering, with strong lateral setae; and inferior volsella prominent, rectangular.

Remarks: Antillocladius pluspilalus , A. yakyijeus , A. scalpellatus and A. subnubilus are only separable on the size of the virga and the chaetotaxy of squama and cell m 3+4. See A. pluspilalus for comments.

Distribution: The species is recorded from China (Guangdong) and the Russian Far East ( Wang & Saether 1993; Tiunova et al. 2000).

Figures

FIGURES 1–2. Parsimony analysis of some Orthocladiinae genera and species with Brillia Kieffer, Diplocladius Kieffer and Propsilocerus Kieffer fixed as outgroup. Characters and character states as in text, matrix of characters as in Appendix 1. 1—strict consensus of shortest tree; 2—strict consensus of shortest tree after reweighting according to rescaled consistency index.