Antillocladius tokarameneus (Sasa et Suzuki)

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 : 37

Antillocladius tokarameneus (Sasa et Suzuki)

Paratrissocladius tokarameneus Sasa and Suzuki, 1995: 277 , Fig. 17 .

Antillocladius tokarameneus (Sasa et Suzuki) ; Yamamoto (2004: 4, Fig. 2 ).

Material examined: Holotype as in Sasa and Suzuki (1995) ( NSM).

Diagnostic characters: This species can be separated from all other members of the genus by the presence of setae on squama, simple inferior volsella, inclined in relation to the gonostyle, short virga consisting of two small spines, and costa not extended.

Distribution: The species is known from Japan.

Figures

FIGURES 13–17. Antillocladius axitiosus sp. n., male. 13—tentorium, stipes, and cibarial pump; 14—thorax; 15— wing; 16—anal point and tergite IX and dorsal aspect of left gonocoxite and gonostylus; 17—hypopygium with anal point and tergite IX removed, dorsal aspect to the left and ventral aspect to the right.

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.