Zavrelia Kieffer & Bause 1913
Authors/Creators
- 1. Department of Environmental and Life Sciences, Trent University, 1600 West Bank Drive, Peterborough, ON, Canada. arminnamayandeh @ trentu. ca; a. namayan @ taxanama. com; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0003 - 2136 - 0497
- 2. 5597 New Meadow Drive, Ypsilanti, MI 48197.
- 3. Department of Fisheries Sciences, Faculty of Natural Resources, University of Kurdistan, Sanandaj, Iran. & Department of Fisheries and Aquatic Ecology, Faculty of Fisheries and Environmental Sciences, Gorgan University of Agricultural Sciences and Natural Resources, Gorgan, Iran.
- 4. Department of Fisheries and Oceans, Arctic and Aquatic Research Division, 501 University Cr., Winnipeg, MB, Canada. Wendylee. Stott @ dfo-mpo. gc. ca; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0002 - 5252 - 4901
Description
Key to adult males of Zavrelia
1. Anal point densely covered with strong spinulae............................................................. 2
- Anal point bare, with microtrichia or short spinules only...................................................... 3
2. Anal point spinulae of varying size and shapes but never very long, ≤ 4 × as long as wide (Ekrem and Stur, 2009: Fig. 8E; Giłka 2008: Fig. 4)........................................................ Z. pentatoma Kieffer & Bause (Palearctic) *
- Anal point spinulae very long, ≥ 8 × as long as wide (Fig. 3D–E).................... Z. parapentatoma sp. n. (Nearctic) *
3. Setiger of superior volsella with conspicuous constriction in apical 1/3........................................... 4
- Setiger of superior volsella without conspicuous constriction in apical 1/3........................................ 6
4. Setiger of superior volsella with pointed apex (Ekrem and Stur, 2009: Fig. 5E)...... Z. clinovolsella Guo & Wang (Oriental)
- Setiger of superior volsella with somewhat rectangular apex................................................... 5
5. Anal point with only a few microtrichia in between crests; distinct microtrichia-free areas on anal tergite around the base of anal point (Ekrem and Stur, 2009: Fig. 10E)......................................... Z. sinica Ekrem & Stur (Palearctic)
- Anal point with numerous microtrichia in between crests; microtrichia present all around the base of anal point (Zorina 2008: Figs. 13–14).......................................................... Z. pseudopentatoma Zorina (Palearctic)
6. Anal point with small spinules in between crests............................................................. 7
- Anal point bare, or with microtrichia in between crests at most................................................. 9
7. AR close to 0.6................................................................ Zavrelia casasi Ekrem & Stur
- AR> 0.7............................................................................................ 8
8. AR 1.23; wing length about 1.50 mm; LR 1 about1.45; laterosternite with one seta; anal point with small spinules scattered between the entire length of anal crests (Ekrem & Stur 2009: Fig. 12E)..... Z. tusimatijea (Sasa & Suzuki, 1999) (Palearctic)
- AR 0.91–1.08; wing length 0.88–1.04 mm; LR1 about 2.09; laterosternite without seta; anal point with small spinules scattered between anal crests at anal point base only (Guo and Wang, 2007: Fig. 3; Lin & Wang 2017: Figs. 8–9)........................................................................................ Z. bragremia Guo & Wang (Oriental)
9. Anal point bare...................................................................................... 10
- Anal point with microtrichia in between crests............................................................. 11
10. AR 1.00–1.18; LR 1 1.36–1.46; superior volsella with pointed apex (Zorina, 2008: Figs. 1–2).... Z. elenae Zorina (Palearctic)
- AR 0.45; LR1 1.96; superior volsella with rounded apex (Kobayashi 2014: Fig. 7)......................................................................................... Z. simantoneoa (Sasa, Suzuki & Sakai, 1998) (Palearctic)
11. Wing length 1.40 mm; AR close to 0.75....................................... Z. hudsoni Ekrem & Stur (Nearctic)
- Wing length close to 1.00 mm; AR close to 0.90................................. Z. aristata Ekrem & Stur (Nearctic)
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Scientific name authorship
- Kieffer & Bause
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Order
- Diptera
- Family
- Chironomidae
- Genus
- Zavrelia
- Taxon rank
- genus
- Taxonomic concept label
- Zavrelia Kieffer, 1913 sec. Namayandeh, Hudson, Ghaderi & Stott, 2023
References
- Ekrem, T. & Stur, E. (2009) A review of the genus Zavrelia (Diptera: Chironomidae). European Journal of Entomology, 106, 119. https: // doi. org / 10.14411 / eje. 2009.016
- Gilka, W. (2008) An intraspecific morphological variability of Zavrelia pentatoma Kieffer (Diptera: Chironomidae). Dipteron, Bulletin of the Dipterological Section of the Polish Entomological Society, 24, 11 - 15.
- Zorina, O. V. (2008) Russian Zavrelia Kieffer (Diptera: Chironomidae), with the description of two new species. Zootaxa, 1845 (1), 60 - 68. https: // doi. org / 10.11646 / zootaxa. 1845.1.4
- Lin, X. L. & Wang, X. H. (2017) A redescription of Zavrelia bragremia Guo & Wang, 2007 (Diptera: Chironomidae). CHIRONOMUS Journal of Chironomidae Research, 30, 67 - 71. https: // doi. org / 10.5324 / cjcr. v 0 i 30.2345
- Kobayashi, T. (2014) A redescription of Zavrelia simantoneoa (Sasa, Suzuki and Sakai, 1998) comb. nov. CHIRONOMUS Journal of Chironomidae Research, 27, 41 - 44. h