Cladotanytarsus conversus (Johannsen)

Puchalski, Mateusz & Giłka, Wojciech, 2017, Cladotanytarsus Kieffer (Diptera: Chironomidae): several distinctive species reviewed on the basis of records from Canada and USA, Zootaxa 4242 (2), pp. 344-358 : 352

Cladotanytarsus conversus (Johannsen)

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Tanytarsus conversus Johannsen, 1932 : Johannsen 1932: 543 (adult male and female, Sumatra). Cladotanytarsus conversus ( Johannsen, 1932) : Langton & Garcia 2000: 199 (adult male and female, pupa, larva; South Asia ; Europe: France, Greece).

Cladotanytarsus tobaquardecimus Kikuchi et Sasa, 1990 : Kikuchi & Sasa 1990: 314 (adult male, Sumatra), syn. nov.

Material examined. BULGARIA. Danube, Svishtov, 17 September 2007, 16 males, leg. Wolfram Graf (ex coll. B. Janecek, deposit in DIZP) . Holotype of Cladotanytarsus tobaquardecimus , adult male slide-mounted (No. 200:070): 5 photographs (slide + abdomen + hypopygium magnified) displayed on the NMNS website.

Remarks. This widely distributed species is known from Indonesia in the south-east through Thailand and India to Europe in the north-west ( Langton & Garcia 2000). With regard to the structural variations of the male hypopygium (cf. Fig. 5 A & B, Langton & Garcia 2000, figs 1 & 2, Kikuchi & Sasa 1990, fig. 20 and NMNS, photographs of the holotype), body colouration and the main metric/meristic characters ( Table 3 ), we found no significant differences between specimens described as Cladotanytarsus conversus and C. tobaquardecimus , both names originally coming from Sumatra. Consequently, we propose to treat them as synonyms.

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FIGURE 5. Cladotanytarsus conversus (Johannsen, 1932) (A, B) and C. nigrovittatus (Goetghebuer, 1922) (C, D), male. Hypopygium in dorsal (A, C) and ventral aspect (B, D).