Cricotopus van der Wulp
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Cricotopus van der Wulp View in CoL ( Figs 35–40 View FIGURES 32–36 View FIGURES 37–42 )
Head capsule yellow to blackish brown, occipital margin pale to black. Antenna usually 5-segmented. Premandible with one, rarely two apical teeth. Mandible with short apical tooth (shorter than combined width of inner teeth) and 3 inner teeth. Outer margin is usually crenulated, sometimes smooth. Mentum with one median, and usually 6 (rarely 5 or 7) lateral teeth. Ventromental plates narrow.
Remarks: Cricotopus larvae are extremely similar to Orthocladius and Paratrichocladius (recently placed within Cricotopus as subgenus, Cranston & Krosch, 2015).
Tuft of setae on the body segments of most species can distinguish Cricotopus from Orthocladius , however this feature is inapplicable in subfossil material, and the same goes for characters on antennae ( Andersen et al. 2013b). In general, the following characters seem to be more typical for Cricotopus than Orthocladius (though can be present in some Orthocladius as well): outer margin of mandible strongly crenulated, second lateral tooth smaller than first one and/or reduced and fused to first lateral tooth, and outer four lateral teeth forming a distinct group. Brooks et al. (2007) state that lateral teeth of Cricotopus are usually more rounded and pointed apically and the median tooth is relatively narrow, while in general, Orthocladius have lateral teeth more rectangular and median tooth can be broad (>3 times broader than first lateral). Paratrichocladius is usually distinguished by having the first lateral tooth of the mentum constricted at base so that broader in the middle than at the base. This tooth of Cricotopus and Orthocladius is widest at the base.
Cuppen & Tempelman (2018) have proposed a key to recognize Cricotopus subgenera that may be applied to sub-fossil remains. Subgenus Isocladius : Median mental tooth usually rounded, triangular in shape, always <2.5 times as wide as first lateral tooth; second lateral mental tooth strongly reduced and for the largest part fused with the first lateral tooth. Subgenus Cricotopus : Median mental tooth of varying size, either small or up to 3 or 4 times as wide as first lateral tooth, second lateral not reduced (e.g. Fig. 39 View FIGURES 37–42 ).
Up to date, Cricotopus (Cricotopus) pilosellus Brundin 1956 , Cricotopus (Isocladius) perniger (Zettrestedt, 1850) and C. (I.) cf. tricinctus (Meigen, 1818) were identified from pupal exuviae material ( Bitušík 2004; Bitušík et al. 2006a).
Cricotopus was relatively frequently recorded from the lakes situated at lower altitudes.
Five morphotypes were recognized, three of them are not listed in Brooks et al. (2007).
Key to morphotypes:
1 Second lateral tooth of mentum reduced and partly fused with first lateral tooth.................................... 2
- Second lateral tooth of mentum subequal or only slightly smaller than first lateral tooth and not fused with it............. 3
2 Median tooth of mentum prominent, more than twice height of first lateral tooth............... Cricotopus View in CoL sylvestris- type
- Median tooth of mentum subequal to slightly longer than first laterals....................... Cricotopus View in CoL intersectus- type
3 Mentum rather horizontal in appearance............................................... Cricotopus View in CoL / Orthocladius View in CoL I
- Mentum triangular in shape............................................................................. 4
4 Head capsule light brown; median mental tooth up to 2 times width of first lateral tooth; first lateral tooth rounded, wider in middle than at base; first inner tooth of mandible robust, larger than apical tooth............ Cricotopus View in CoL skirwithensis- type
- Head capsule dark brown; median mental tooth narrow, equal to or slightly wider than first lateral tooth; inner teeth on meandibe subequal in size............................................................... Cricotopus View in CoL tremulus- type
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