Antillocladius biota Mendes, Andersen 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 : 26

Antillocladius biota Mendes, Andersen et Saether

Antillocladius biota Mendes, Andersen and Saether, 2004: 30 , Fig. 3 .

Material examined: Type material as in Mendes et al. (2004).

Diagnostic characters: The male can be separated from all other members of the genus by having bare wing membrane, squama with few setae, long costal extension, scalpellate acrostichals starting near antepronotum, long virga, nearly parallel-sided anal point with blunt apex and weak lateral setae, and inferior volsella short and pointed triangular.

Biology and distribution: The species has only been taken in the Parque Estadual Intervales in southern São Paulo State, Brazil, at the border with Paraná, where the larvae were collected among mosses growing on tree trunks. The type locality is a primary forest with some springs and rivulets, as well as swampy areas .

Figures

FIGURES 3–4. 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. 3—preferred tree based on strict consensus (Fig. 2) which is one step shorter than the tree after reweighting according to rescaled consistency index; 4—area cladogram based on the preferred tree.