Cryptochironomus jokaprimus Sasa & Ogata, 1999

Yan, Chuncai, Liu, Ting, Cao, Wei, Zhao, Guangjun & Liu, Wenbin, 2018, A review of the Japanese Cryptochironomus Kieffer, 1918 (Diptera, Chironomidae), ZooKeys 771, pp. 139-155 : 141

publication ID

https://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.771.24220

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:E0070C6D-62DE-4AE1-B87D-86AC63BEC27B

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/A26E6D16-1992-8C03-AB98-69239B2AF9F8

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scientific name

Cryptochironomus jokaprimus Sasa & Ogata, 1999
status

 

Cryptochironomus jokaprimus Sasa & Ogata, 1999 View in CoL

Cryptochironomus jokaprimus Sasa & Ogata, 1999: 86; Sasa and Suzuki 2001: 2.

Material examined.

Japan. Holotype, ♂ (No. 321: 37), at the side of a stream discharging water (the Kurobe Municipal Sewage Treatment Plant (Kurobe Joka Center)), in urban areas of Japan, 27.viii.1996, light trap.

Diagnostic characters.

Frontal tubercles prominent, roughly conical. Tergite IX rounded at the posterior margin. Anal point concave in its median portion, and parallel-sided to the apex, apically rounded. Superior volsella narrow at base and strongly expanded distally, bearing five strong setae, inferior volsella semicircular, gonostylus with small protrusion at apex.

Distribution.

Japan.