Synendotendipes woodi ( Freeman, 1957 ) Ekrem & Technology & Museum & History & Trondheim & Email, 2016

Ekrem, Torbjørn & Elisabeth Stur, 2016, NEW COMBINATIONS OF AFROTROPICAL CHIRONOMINI (DIPTERA: CHIRONOMIDAE) Abstract, CHIRONOMUS Journal of Chironomidae Research 29, pp. 4-10 : 8

Synendotendipes woodi ( Freeman, 1957) comb. n.

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Chironomus (Endochironomus) woodi Freeman, 1957: 355 .

Endochironomus woodi ( Freeman, 1957) , Freeman and Cranston (1980).

Material examined: Holotype male ( NHMUK), Malawi, Ruo, 6.iv.1916, R. C. Wood; 2 males & 1 female paratype as holotype; 1 paratype male ( NHMUK) Uganda, Natadgidza?, v.1937, G. L. R. Hancock; 1 paratype male ( NHMUK) Nigeria, Zungeru , xi.1910, J. W. Scott-Macfie; 2 males ( ZMBN) Ghana, Eastern Region, Bothi falls , at light, 14.x.1994, T. Andersen et al.; 1 male ( ZMBN) Ghana, Western Region, Ankasa Game Production Reserve , Malaise trap #10, 6-12. xii.1993, T. Andersen et al.

The examined material fits well with the definitions of Synendotendipes Grodhaus (as opposed to Endochironomus Kieffer ) in lacking a tarsal beard in the adult male, lacking mid- and hind tibial spurs, and by having a very slightly broadened base of the superior volsella ( Figs 4a, b ). The species also has a head without frontal tubercles ( Fig. 4c ) and thorax with widely divided, but well developed antepronotal lobes ( Fig. 4d ) as is typical for Synendotendipes ( Cranston et al. 1989) .

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Figure 4. Synendotendipes woodi. a) paratype male hypopygium (Uganda); b) male hypopygium (Ghana); c) male head (Ghana); d) male thorax (Ghana). Scale bars a-c = 100 µm; scale bar d = 500 µm.