Constempellina Brundin

Zorina, Oksana V., 2013, A systematic review of the genus Constempellina Kieffer (Diptera: Chironomidae) from the Russian Far East, with description of a new species, Zootaxa 3694 (3), pp. 201-212 : 202

Constempellina Brundin

Constempellina Brundin, 1947: 82 .

Type species: Tanytarsus (Phaenopelma) brevicosta Edwards, 1937: 146 .

Other included valid species: Constempellina tokunagai new species.

Emended diagnosis. Male: as in Cranston et al. (1989: 369) with the following emendations: wing length 1.5– 2.7 mm, AR 0.57–1.26, acrostichals 0–4, apical part of anal point conical or parallel-side, base of superior volsella with or without microtrichia.

Pupa: as in Pinder and Reiss (1986: 313) with the following emendations: thoracic horn onion- or fusiform, antepronotals 2–3, pedes spurii B weakly developed or absent, sternite IV, rarely V, with two longitudinal rows of pale spines, anal lobe with 8–19 taeniate setae.

Fourth instar larva: as in Pinder and Reiss (1983: 206) with the following emendations: pedestal of antenna with 1–7 apical projections.