Chaetocladius Kieffer, 1911

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 : 230

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https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.4819.2.2

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https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4437258

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Chaetocladius Kieffer
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Chaetocladius Kieffer View in CoL View at ENA ( Figs 29–31 View FIGURES 28–31 )

Head yellow to light brown with darkened occipital margin. Antenna 5 segmented, never strongly reduced ( Fig. 29A View FIGURES 28–31 ). Premandible bifid with 1–2 blunt inner teeth ( Fig. 29 View FIGURES 28–31 ). Labral lamellae of various shape usually well developed between labral setae SI, but can be vestigial or absent ( Fig. 30 View FIGURES 28–31 ). Apical mandibular tooth shorter than combined width of 3 inner teeth. Mentum with 1–2 median teeth and 5 pairs of lateral teeth, the outermost tooth may be reduced. Ventromental plates usually large, rounded and extending beyond outer lateral mental tooth.

Remarks: The shape of mentum is often the only character that can be used for the identification of subfossils. Parametriocnemus , Paraphaenocladius , Heterotrissocladius have mentum with double median tooth, and 5 pairs of laterals, combined with large ventromental plates extending beyond the outer lateral teeth without beard. Setae submenti of Chaetocladius are arising under the ventromental plates ( Fig. 31 View FIGURES 28–31 ) while there are located much higher in Parametriocnemus and Paraphaenocladius (see Fig. 58 View FIGURES 54–59 ). The outermost mental tooth is not reduced in Heterotrissocladius . Metriocnemus, Hydrobeanus and Thienemannia have similar menta, however without large ventromental plates and obviously narrower median teeth/ tooth.

The only Chaetocladius identified to species level from the Tatra Mts. is C. bitusiki Moubayed, 2019 (Moubayed & Bitusik 2019).

The morphotype recognized in our material corresponds to Brooks et al. (2007).

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Diptera

Family

Chironomidae

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