Pseudosmittia licina, Ferrington Jr & Saether, 2011

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, Zootaxa 2849 (1), pp. 1-314 : 201-203

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.2849.1.1

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/EE7687BA-FF3F-FF3C-BDAA-BA5C17448DAE

treatment provided by

Felipe

scientific name

Pseudosmittia licina
status

sp. nov.

Pseudosmittia licina View in CoL sp. n.

( Fig. 76 View FIGURE 76 )

Type material: Holotype male, KIRIBATI: Kiritinati (Christmas Island), Settlement , 10.25 0 S 105.41 0 E, yellow trap, 11–30 iv 1989, J. C. Carsdale ( CSIRO).

Diagnostic characters: The upturned gonostylus combined with the absence of a postcubital fork and an AR of 0.30 will separate the species from other members of the group.

Etymology: From the Latin licinus, bent, deflexed upward, referring to the shape of the gonostylus.

Male imago (n = 1)

All measurements and ratios within the range of variation of P. forcipata with the following exceptions and additions: Wing ( Fig. 76 A View FIGURE 76 ) 0.78 µm long, total length/wing length 1.78, wing length/length of profemur 2.49. AR 0.28, terminal flagellomere 87 µm long. Outer verticals ( Fig. 76 B View FIGURE 76 ) 4, tentorium 14 µm wide. VR 1.86, costa not extended, Cu 1 curved. Tarsomere 3 of front leg 50 µm long, BV 1 4.38, BV 2 4.37, BR 2 2.8. Hypopygium ( Fig. 76 E View FIGURE 76 ) with 6 setae on anal point, 2 setae on laterosternite, phallapodeme 50 µm long, transverse sternapodeme 30 µm long; inferior volsella narrowly triangular, reaching to 0.77 gonocoxite length, gonostylus curved, HR 2.24.

Female, pupa and larva

Unknown.

Distribution

The species is only known from the type locality on Kiritinati.

CSIRO

Australian National Fish Collection

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Diptera

Family

Chironomidae

Genus

Pseudosmittia

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