Cricotopus

Chamutiová, Tímea, Hamerlík, Ladislav & Bitušík, Peter, 2020, Subfossil chironomids (Diptera, Chironomidae) of lakes in the Tatra Mountains an illustrated guide, Zootaxa 4819 (2), pp. 216-264 : 233

Cricotopus /Orthocladius I ( Fig. 40 )

This is a new morphotype, not listed in Brooks et al. (2007).

Head capsule light brown to yellow in colour. Mentum rather horizontal in shape, all teeth brown. Single median tooth, about 1.5 times width of first lateral tooth; first lateral teeth obviously rounded. Second lateral tooth reduced and partly fused to first lateral. Setae submenti situated below the bases of mentum.

Figures

FIGURES 37–42. Cricotopus (Paratrichocladius) skirwithensis-type: 37—head capsule (arrow indicates first inner tooth of the mandible). C. (P.) skirwithensis-type: 38—detail of premandible). Cricotopus (Cricotopus) tremulus-type: 39—head capsule. Cricotopus/Orthocladius I: 40—head capsule. Diplocladius cultriger: 41—head capsule. D. cultriger: 42—detail of the head capsule (arrow indicates long and dense beard).