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Allocladius jintuoctavus Ferrington Jr & Saether 2011, comb. n.

Description

Allocladius jintuoctavus (Sasa) comb. n.

(Fig. 11 A)

Mesosmittia jintuoctava Sasa, 1990: 46; Yamamoto, 2004: 51.

Pseudosmittia jintuoctava (Sasa); Saether, 2006: 32.

Material examined: JAPAN: Honshu, Toyama Pref., Jinshu River at Ousawano, holotype male, 30.v.1989, M. Sasa (NMST, No. A 207: 38, misspelled Mesosmittia jintunona).

Diagnostic characters: The complex male anal point will separate the species from similar species.

The male is redescribed by Saether (2006).

Notes

Published as part of Ferrington Jr, Leonard C. & Saether, Ole A., 2011, A revision of the genera Pseudosmittia Edwards, 1932, Allocladius Kieffer, 1913, and Hydrosmittia gen. n. (Diptera: Chironomidae, Orthocladiinae) 2849, pp. 1-314 in Zootaxa 2849 (1) on page 57, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.2849.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5288200

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Event date
1989-05-30
Verbatim event date
1989-05-30
Scientific name authorship
Ferrington Jr & Saether
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Order
Diptera
Family
Chironomidae
Genus
Allocladius
Species
jintuoctavus
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic status
comb. nov.
Type status
holotype

References

  • Sasa, M. (1990) Studies on the chironomid midges (Diptera, Chironomidae) of the Nansei Islands, Southern Japan. Japanese Journal of Experimental Medicine, 60, 111 - 165.
  • Yamamoto, M. (2004) A catalog of Japanese Orthocladiinae (Diptera: Chironomidae). Makunagi, Acta Dipterologica, 21, 1 - 121.
  • Saether, O. A. (2006) Japanese Pseudosmittia Edwards (Diptera: Chironomidae). Zootaxa, 1198: 21 - 51.