Rheocricotopus (Psilocricotopus) villiculus Wang & Saether 2001
Authors/Creators
- 1. 84 - 3 Abeguchishinden, Aoi-ku, Shizuoka 421 - 2114 Japan.
- 2. Life Science and Technology College, Jinan University, Guangzhou 510632, China.
Description
Rheocricotopus (P.) villiculus Wang & Saether, 2001
Rheocricotopus (Psilocricotopus) villiculus Wang & Saether, 2001: 238.
Rheocricotopus (Psilocricotopus) villiculus – Ashe & O’Connor 2012: 568.
Type material
Holotype CHINA – Henan • ♂; Xinyang, Mt Jigong, Jigongshan NNR; 31°48′ N, 114°04′ E; 700 m a.s.l.; 11 Jul. 1997; Y.Z. Du leg.; NKU, NKU 012777.
Distribution
The species is known from Henan, Zhejiang and Jiangsu provinces in Oriental China (Lin et al. 2020: 284 fig. 2).
Remarks
Although in the original description of this species, the authors (Wang & Saether 2001: 238) wrote: “no humeral pit”, our re-examination of the holotype revealed that the male has large, oval humeral pits. The species is a typical member of the orientalis group, characterized by a pair of posterolateral setal tufts on the tergite IX, which is a unique feature as a discriminator from the other members. However, Wang & Saether (2001: 239) wrote: “The inferior volsella on one side is lost or reduced. It thus may seem unwarranted to describe a species based on a single specimen which, in addition, could be aberrant.”
The female, the pupa and the larva are unknown.
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Collection code
- NKU
- Material sample ID
- NKU 012777
- Event date
- 1997-07-11
- Verbatim event date
- 1997-07-11
- Scientific name authorship
- Wang & Saether
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Order
- Diptera
- Family
- Chironomidae
- Genus
- Rheocricotopus
- Species
- villiculus
- Taxon rank
- species
- Type status
- holotype
- Taxonomic concept label
- Rheocricotopus (Psilocricotopus) villiculus Wang, 2001 sec. Niitsuma & Tang, 2026
References
- Wang X. & Saether O. A. 2001. Two new species of the orientalis group of Rheocricotopus (Psilocricotopus) from China (Diptera: Chironomidae). Hydrobiologia 444: 237-240. https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1017548204492
- Ashe P. & O'Connor J. P. 2012. A World Catalogue of Chironomidae (Diptera). Part 2 A, B. Orthocladiinae. Irish Biogeographical Society & National Museum of Ireland, Dublin.
- Lin X., Yu H., Wang Q., Bu W. & Wang X. 2020. DNA barcodes and morphology confirm a new species of Rheocricotopus (Psilocricotopus) orientalis group (Diptera: Chironomidae). Zootaxa 4768 (2): 282-290. https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4768.2.9