Published July 23, 2020 | Version v1
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Cricotopus

  • 1. peter. bitusik @ umb. sk; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0002 - 8439 - 4582
  • 2. ladislav. hamerlik @ umb. sk; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0002 - 0803 - 8981
  • 3. timea. chamutiova @ umb. sk; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0003 - 4375 - 7727

Description

Cricotopus /Orthocladius I (Fig. 40)

This is a new morphotype, not listed in Brooks et al. (2007).

Head capsule light brown to yellow in colour. Mentum rather horizontal in shape, all teeth brown. Single median tooth, about 1.5 times width of first lateral tooth; first lateral teeth obviously rounded. Second lateral tooth reduced and partly fused to first lateral. Setae submenti situated below the bases of mentum.

Notes

Published as part of Chamutiová, Tímea, Hamerlík, Ladislav & Bitušík, Peter, 2020, Subfossil chironomids (Diptera, Chironomidae) of lakes in the Tatra Mountains an illustrated guide, pp. 216-264 in Zootaxa 4819 (2) on page 233, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4819.2.2, http://zenodo.org/record/4396828

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Family
Chironomidae
Genus
Cricotopus
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Diptera
Phylum
Arthropoda
Taxon rank
genus

References

  • Brooks, S. J., Langdon, P. G. & Heiri, O. (2007) The Identification and Use of Palaearctic Chironomidae Larvae in Palaeoecology. QRA Technical Guide No. 10. QRA, London, 276 pp.