Denopelopia Roback & Rutter, 1988

Dantas, Galileu P. S., Hamada, Neusa & Mendes, Humberto F., 2016, Denopelopiaamicitia, a new Tanypodinae from Brazil (Diptera, Chironomidae), ZooKeys 553, pp. 107-117 : 108

Taxon classification Animalia ORDO FAMILIA

Denopelopia Roback & Rutter, 1988

Denopelopia Roback & Rutter, 1988: 117.

Type species.

Denopelopia atria Roback & Rutter, 1988.

Emended diagnosis.

Based on the additional characters found in Denopelopia amicitia sp. n., the generic diagnosis for the pupa and male of Denopelopia given by Roback and Rutter (1988) and Murray and Fittkau (1989) must be emended. Male: scutal tubercle absent; wing densely covered with macrotrichia, costa not produced beyond R4+5, ending clearly before M1+2; tibial spurs with elongate apical tooth, more than half the length of the entire spur; tergite IX straight or rounded, with a transverse row of setae; gonocoxite with or without internal lobe. Pupa: wholly brown; thoracic horn elongated, with an apical nipple, a small plastron plate and respiratory atrium with or without constrictions; thoracic comb present; TVII with 3 lateral filaments; anal lobe with spines on the outer margin only; genital sac not surpassing apex of anal lobe.