Polypedilum (Pentapedilum) epleri Oyewo et Jacobsen

Oyewo, Emmanuel Adeoye & Saether, Ole A., 2008, Revision of Polypedilum (Pentapedilum) Kieffer and Ainuyusurika Sasa et Shirasaki (Diptera: Chironomidae), Zootaxa 1953, pp. 1-145 : 55

publication ID

1175­5334

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5241813

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/57405B27-FF83-FFDA-FF13-FE6488BEFAF7

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Felipe

scientific name

Polypedilum (Pentapedilum) epleri Oyewo et Jacobsen
status

 

Polypedilum (Pentapedilum) epleri Oyewo et Jacobsen View in CoL

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Polypedilum (Pentapedilum) epleri Oyewo et Jacobsen, 2007: 225 View in CoL .

Material examined. USA: Florida, Everglades National Park , holotype male, reared from larva, 14.i.1999, D. A. Levitis ( NMNH) ; Florida, Everglades National Park , female allotype reared from larva, 14.i.1999, D. A. Levitis ; Florida, Everglades National Park , 5 males, 4 females, 10 pupae, 11 larvae paratypes, 28.x.1998, 14.i.1999, C. L. de la Rosa & R . E. Jacobsen; Florida, Highland County, Kissimmee River, Riverwoods Biological Field station , 7 males, 6 females, 4 pupae, 12 larvae paratypes, 24.vii.1998, 30.vii.1998, C. L. de la Rosa ; Ohio, Camden Lake , 5 males, 3 females, 4 pupae, 10 larvae paratypes, 4.x.1986, 21.vi.1987, 27.viii.1988, 6.viii.1989, 9.ii.1989, 20.ix.1990, M. Bolton ( ZXMBN)

Diagnostic characters. The species differs from other species with numerous macrotrichia on the wing, uniformly colored abdomen, and spur on the foretibia except P. (Pe.) tritum by having a microtrichiose base of the superior volsella. It differs from P. (Pe.) tritum by having a lower base of the superior volsella and slightly lower antennal ratio (0.9–1.2 as opposed to about 1.6). The pupa is distinguished from Nearctic and western Palaearctic Polypedilum species including P. (Pe.) tritum by having 7 branches in the thoracic horn, shagreen on tergite IV – VI separated into 4 fields, with median field entirely separated from anterior band and with paired posterolateral fields as well having spines on conjunctives III / IV and IV / V. Larvae can be distinguished from other known Polypedilum larvae by a 16 toothed mentum with the second laterals slightly longer and wider than the median and first laterals.

Distribution. This species is known from Florida and Ohio, USA.

NMNH

Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of Natural History

R

Departamento de Geologia, Universidad de Chile

VI

Mykotektet, National Veterinary Institute

V

Royal British Columbia Museum - Herbarium

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Diptera

Family

Chironomidae

Genus

Polypedilum

Loc

Polypedilum (Pentapedilum) epleri Oyewo et Jacobsen

Oyewo, Emmanuel Adeoye & Saether, Ole A. 2008
2008
Loc

Polypedilum (Pentapedilum) epleri Oyewo et Jacobsen, 2007: 225

Oyewo, E. A. & Jacobsen, R. E. 2007: 225
2007
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