Polypedilum

Saether, Ole A., Andersen, Trond, Pinho, Luiz C. & Mendes, Humberto F., 2010, The problems with Polypedilum Kieffer (Diptera: Chironomidae), with the description of Probolum subgen. n., Zootaxa 2497, pp. 1-36 : 10-11

publication ID	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.195747
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5030718
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03BC8790-0E17-FFCB-FF44-C3CFC91F7117
treatment provided by	Plazi (2016-04-09 20:12:52, last updated 2024-11-29 20:09:53)
scientific name	Polypedilum
status

Treatment

Polypedilum View in CoL View at ENA subgenus Tripedilum Kieffer

Tripedilum Kieffer, 1921a: 271 ; 1921c: 28, 47.

Polypedilum Kieffer, 1912 View in CoL ; not Kieffer, 1913, (see below).

Type species

Polypedilum (Tripedilum) fuscipenne (Kieffer) View in CoL Polypedilum fuscipenne Kieffer, 1921a: 98 View in CoL . Tripedilum armatifrons Kieffer, 1921b: 47 . Polypedilum longiforceps Kieffer, 1921a: 98 View in CoL . Microtendipes longiventris Kieffer, 1922: 15 View in CoL .

Other included species

Polypedilum (Tripedilum) nubifer (Skuse)

Chironomus nubifer Skuse, 1889: 249 View in CoL .

Chironomus (Prochironomus) triparticus Kieffer, 1910: 231 . Chironomus ceylanicus Kieffer, 1911: 136 .

Polypedilum pelostolum Kieffer, 1912: 41 .

Polypedilum pharao Kieffer, 1925: 274 .

Chironomus (Polypedilum) albiceps Johannsen, 1932: 515 View in CoL . Polypedilum pruinosum Goetghebuer, 1934: 37 . Chironomus (Polypedilum) octoguttatum Tokunaga, 1936: 83 .

Polypedilum aberrans Chernovskii, 1949: 79 .

Chironomus daitobeceus Sasa et Suzuki, 2001: 64 View in CoL . Polypedilum daitoneoum Sasa et Suzuki, 2001: 76 View in CoL .? Polypedilum flavipes Kieffer, 1920: 91 .

Polypedilum (Tripedilum) lobiferum (Freeman) View in CoL

Polypedilum lobiferum Freeman, 1954: 22 View in CoL .

Polypedilum (Polypedilum) lobiferum Freeman View in CoL ; Freeman 1958: 289.

Diagnostic characters. The male imagines of the subgenus differ from the males of other subgenera primarily by having distinct frontal tubercles and the projection of the superior volsella without any outer seta. The projection of the superior volsella is very long compared to the short base and the gonostylus is broad with a broad, blunt apex.

The pupa has unique well developed cone-shaped cephalic tubercles, numerous branches (> 20) in the thoracic horn, no pedes spurii A, a well developed comb on the caudolateral margin of segment VIII, and anal lobe with numerous taeniae (about 38–50) and no dorsal setae.

The larva has alternating Lauterborn organs, third antennal segment distinctly longer than fourth, antennal blade shorter than flagellum, mentum with first lateral teeth distinctly lower than second and median teeth and ventromental plates without posterior lobes and with median apices pointing towards each other.

References

Chernovskii, A. A. (1949) Opredelitel' lichinok komarov semeistva Tendipedidae [A key to larvae of the family Tendipedidae]. Opredeliteli po faune SSSR, izdavaemye Zoologicheskim Institutom AN SSSR, 31. Izdatel'stvo Akademii Nauk SSSR, Moscow, Leningrad, 187 pp. [In Russian].

Freeman, P. (1954) Chironomidae (Diptera) from western Cape Province - III. Proceedings of the Royal Entomological Society of London, Series B, 23, 17 - 25.

Freeman, P. (1958) A study of the Chironomidae (Diptera) of Africa South of the Sahara. Part IV. Bulletin of the British Museum of Natural History, Entomology, 6, 263 - 363.

Goetghebuer, M. (1934) Zur Erforshung des Persischen Golfes. (Beitrag No. 15). Ceratopogonidae et Chironomidae. Arbeiten uber morphologische und taxonomische Entomologie, Berlin-Dahlem, 2, 36 - 39.

Johannsen, O. A. (1932) Chironominae of the Malayan subregion of the Dutch East Indies. Archiv fur Hydrobiologie, Supplement, 11, 508 - 552.

Kieffer, J. J. (1910) Etude sur les chironomides des Indes Orientales, avec description de quelques nouvelles especes d'Egypte. Memoirs of the Indian Museum, 2, 181 - 242.

Kieffer, J. J. (1911) Descriptions de nouveaux Chironomides de l'Indian Museum de Calcutta. Records of the Indian Museum, 6, 113 - 177.

Kieffer, J. J. (1912) Tendipedidae (Chironomidae) (Dipt.). H. Sauter's Formosa-Ausbeute. Supplementa entomologica, 1, 27 - 43.

Kieffer, J. J. (1913) Nouveaux Chironomides (Tendipedides) d'Allemagne. Bulletin de la Societe d'Histoire naturelle de Metz, 28, 7 - 35.

Kieffer, J. J. (1920) Tableau synoptique des Chironomides palearctiques appartenant aux genres Polypedilum et Limnochironomus. Annales de la Societe scientifique de Bruxelles, 39, 159 - 167.

Kieffer, J. J. (1921 a) Synopse de la tribu des Chironomariae (Dipteres). Annales de la Societe scientifique Bruxelles, 40, 269 - 277.

Kieffer, J. J. (1921 b) Nouveaux representants du genre Polypedilum (Chironomides). Annales de la Societe scientifique Bruxelles, 41, 97 - 101.

Kieffer, J. J. (1922) Chironomides de l'Afrique equatoriale (2 e partie). Annales de la Societe entomologique de France, 91, 1 - 72.

Kieffer, J. J. (1925) Chironomides d'Egypte (Dipt.). Bulletin de la Societe Royale entomologique d'Egypte, 8, 244 - 313.

Sasa, M. & Suzuki, H. (2001) Studies on the species of family Chironomidae (Diptera) collected on Minamidaito Island, Okinawa, South Japan. Part 1. Tropical Medicine, 43 (3 / 4), 61 - 92.

Skuse, F. A. A. (1889) Diptera of Australia. Part VI. The Chironomidae. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales, Series 2 (4), 215 - 311.

Tokunaga, M. (1936) Chironomidae from Japan (Diptera). VII. New species and a new variety of the genus Chironomus Meigen. Philippine Journal of Science, 60, 71 - 85.