A review of Antillocladius Saether and Litocladius Mendes, Andersen et Saether, with the description of two new Neotropical genera (Diptera, Chironomidae, Orthocladiinae)
Author
Mendes, Humberto Fonseca
Author
Andersen, Trond
text
Zootaxa
2008
2008-09-29
1887
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https://biotaxa.org/Zootaxa/article/view/zootaxa.1887.1.1
journal article
10.11646/zootaxa.1887.1.1
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Antillocladius yakyijeus
(Sasa
et
Suzuki)
Metriocnemus yakyijeus
Sasa and Suzuki, 2000: 88
,
Fig. 47
.
Antillocladius yakyijeus
(Sasa
et
Suzuki)
;
Yamamoto (2004: 4)
.
Material examined:
Holotype
as in
Sasa and Suzuki (2000)
(
NSM
).
JAPAN
:
Mie Prefecture
:
Toba
city,
Futami-chyo
,
6 males
,
18.v.1985
,
T. Hirabayashi.
Diagnostic characters:
The male can be separated from all other members of the genus by having numerous apical setae on the wing membrane, cell m
3+4
bare; setose squama; acrostichals starting close to antepronotum, all scalpellate; long virga; anal point long, tapering, with moderately strong lateral setae; and inferior volsella prominent with anterior digitiform projection equally long as and partly covering rounded posterior lobe.
Remarks:
Antillocladius pluspilalus
,
A. yakyijeus
,
A. scalpellatus
and
A. subnubilus
are only separable on the size of the virga and the chaetotaxy of squama and cell m
3+4
. See
A. pluspilalus
for comments.
Distribution:
The species is known from
Japan
.