Skusella, Freeman. There, 1961

Cranston, Peter S. & Tang, Hongqu, 2018, Skusella Freeman (Diptera: Chironomidae): new species, immature stages from Africa, Asia and Australia, and expanded distributions, Zootaxa 4450 (1), pp. 41-65 : 57

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.4450.1.3

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:565A59C6-7F81-420F-886C-248866F2517D

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5967645

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/6D0F87C5-0106-FFC6-FF3F-FB1BFE1FF90A

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Plazi

scientific name

Skusella
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Skusella View in CoL View at ENA sp. ‘Sanyatang’

( Figs 4E View FIGURE 4 , 6C View FIGURE 6 )

Material examined. 1 Pe (♀), CHINA, Guangdong Province, Guangzhou City , Conghua District , Sanyatang Hydropower Station , 23°44.468′N 113°48.216′E, 28.vii.2014 (H.Q. Tang)( ANIC) GoogleMaps . 1 Pe (♂), CHINA, Guangdong Province, Guangzhou City, Zengcheng , pool area of Lan stream, a dam at Shuimei Country , 23°21.318′N 113°58.070′E, 20.xii.2017 (H.Q. Tang) ( EJNU), GoogleMaps

Description. Pupa (n = 2). Body length 4.1–4.4 mm. Exuviae pale brown with brown abdominal apophyses.

Cephalothorax. Cephalic tubercle absent. Frontal setae 40 µm. Thorax granulate only in middle, with 8–10 rounded small beads. Prealar tubercle absent.

Abdomen ( Fig. 6C View FIGURE 6 ). Spinulation extensive on II–VII, extending onto most pleurae lateral to adhesion marks. Hook row of 18–24 hooks, 18–22% of width of segment II. Comb with 8–12 teeth. Sternite 1 ( Fig. 4E View FIGURE 4 ) with anteromedian and anterolateral weak spinule patches.

Comments. Skusella sp. ‘Sanyatang’ pupal exuviae generally resemble those of S. subvittata and S. silingae but differ in more extensive spinulation of tergites II to IV and with these pleurae being widely spinulose ( Fig. 6C View FIGURE 6 ). From S. sp. ‘Limuling’ this taxon is separated by more extensive pleural spinulation and the presence of fine spinules on sternite I.

ANIC

Australian National Insect Collection

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Diptera

Family

Chironomidae

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