Boreoheptagyia iranica Makarchenko, 2020

Makarchenko, Eugenyi A., Semenchenko, Alexander A. & Palatov, Dmitry M., 2020, Taxonomy of some Boreoheptagyiini Brundin (Diptera: Chironomidae Diamesinae) from the mountains of Central Asia and the Middle East, with description and DNA barcoding of new taxa, Zootaxa 4790 (1), pp. 91-107 : 99

Boreoheptagyia iranica Makarchenko , sp. nov.

( Figs. 19–21 , 28–32 )

http://zoobank.org/NomenclaturalActs/ 45D3F40D-35E6-4BDA-B14C-E29C3D1A36CD

Type material. Holotype, adult male, IRAN: Lorestan Province, Zagros Mountains, Tenge-Kholeven River upper of Cham Chit Village , alt. 1338 m above sea level, N 33°22.737’, E 48°58.414’, 29.VI.2019, leg. D. Palatov. Paratypes: 3 males, the same data as holotype .

Derivatio nominis. The species is named as iranica after the type locality in mountains of Iran.

Figures

FIGURES 15–21. Boreoheptagyia joeli sp. nov. (15–18) and B. iranica sp. nov. (19–21), males. 15–16, 20–21, tergite IX; 17, transverse sternapodeme with group of spinules; 18, gonostylus; 19, hypopygium in dorsal view, without tergite IX. Scale bars 50 μm.

FIGURES 28–32. Boreoheptagyia iranica sp. nov., male. 28, 1–13 flagellomeres of antenna; 29–30, hypopygium in dorsal view; 31–32, middle part of hypopygium without tergite IX.