Antillocladius zhengi Wang et Saether

Mendes, Humberto Fonseca & Andersen, Trond, 2008, A review of Antillocladius Saether and Litocladius Mendes, Andersen et Saether, with the description of two new Neotropical genera (Diptera, Chironomidae, Orthocladiinae), Zootaxa 1887 (1), pp. 1-75 : 41

Antillocladius zhengi Wang et Saether

Antillocladius zhengi Wang and Saether, 1993: 229 , Fig. 2 ; Mendes et al. (2004: 59) .

Material examined: Type material as in Wang and Saether (1993) ( ZMBN). THAILAND: Chiang Mai: Nankoi Waterfall near Samoeng , 1 male, 10.iv.1991, sweep net, T. Andersen ( ZMBN) .

Diagnostic characters: The male can be separated from all other members of the genus by having a few apical setae on the wing membrane; bare veins; setose squama; costa strongly extended; acrostichals starting in front, anterior one hair-like to lanceolate, posterior ones scalpellate; moderately long virga; anal point moderately long, triangular with pointed apex and strong lateral setae; and inferior volsella well developed, rectangular, with anterior part somewhat pointed and of about the same length as posterior rounded part.

Distribution: This species is known from China (Hainan) and Thailand.

Figures

FIGURES 1–2. Parsimony analysis of some Orthocladiinae genera and species with Brillia Kieffer, Diplocladius Kieffer and Propsilocerus Kieffer fixed as outgroup. Characters and character states as in text, matrix of characters as in Appendix 1. 1—strict consensus of shortest tree; 2—strict consensus of shortest tree after reweighting according to rescaled consistency index.