Macropelopia Thienemann, 1916

Dantas, Galileu P. S., Siri, Augusto & Hamada, Neusa, 2023, A new species of Macropelopia Thienemann, 1916 (Diptera: Chironomidae) from Southern Brazil, Zootaxa 5306 (5), pp. 551-562 : 552

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.5306.5.3

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:9AF475B4-18FE-480E-BC15-8F7C6BA5386B

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.8076209

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03BAA22F-866D-FFE7-FF0E-33E1EAAAF9B0

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Plazi

scientific name

Macropelopia Thienemann, 1916
status

 

Genus: Macropelopia Thienemann, 1916 View in CoL View at ENA

Type-species: Isoplastus bimaculatus Kieffer, 1909 [= Tanypus nebulosus Meigen, 1804 ], by its original designation

Emended diagnosis. The following additions to the generic diagnose provided by Fittkau & Murray (1986), Murray & Fittkau (1989) and Cranston & Epler (2013) are presented:

Adult: at least one species with several anterior dark-brown spots on the tibiae. Pupa: at least one species with: Dc 2 sclerotized and granular in apical ½ (similar to Dc 1), plastron plate flattened and expanded laterally, and an elongated scar on the abdominal tergite I. Larva: at least one species with: S10 multi-branched, basal segment of palp with ring organ distalmost, accessory blade of antenna not reaching the apex of segment 2, mandible with ventrolateral setae 2 and 3 bifurcated, dorsomentum with 4 large teeth and 1 very small tooth on each side and ligula with an anterior row of teeth slightly concave.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Diptera

Family

Chironomidae

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