Allocladius salti (Freeman) 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 : 75-77

publication ID

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

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5294142

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/EE7687BA-FFBD-FFBA-BDAA-BBDF17AB8DB2

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scientific name

Allocladius salti (Freeman)
status

comb. nov.

Allocladius salti (Freeman) View in CoL comb. n.

( Fig. 19 G View FIGURE 19 )

Pseudosmittia salti Freeman, 1954: 442 View in CoL , pro parte.

Smittia nigra, Freeman, 1956: 349 , pro parte, not Kieffer 1913: 28, not Freeman, 1953: 206.

Allocladius niger (Freeman) View in CoL ; Freeman & Cranston 1980: 181, pro parte, not Kieffer 1913: 28.

Material examined: TANZANIA: Kilimanjaro, Shira Plateau , sweeping bog grass at 12,100 feet, holotype male, 27.xi.1948, G. Salt (495)( BMNH) .

Diagnostic characters: The male imago can be separated from other species with more than 3 acrostichals, supraalar setae, large superior volsella and with large lobe-like accessory lobe of the inferior volsella by having R 4+5 ending far proximal of the end of M 3+4 and an AR of about 0.84.

Male imago (n = 1)

All measurements and ratios are within the variation of A. aizaiensis with the following exceptions: Total length/wing length 1.54; wing length/length of profemur 3.11; AR 0.84; terminal flagellomere 333 µm long; tentorium 151 µm long; stipes 139 µm long; 5 prealars; VR 1.41; no costal extension; R 4+5 ends far proximal of end of M 3+4; BV 3.70; BR 1 4.2; gonostylus 64 µm long; HR 2.89; and HV 3.63.

Remarks

Freeman (1954: 442) described a mixed collection of A. salti and A. niger . There is a female, which we have not examined with the same data as the holotype in the BMNH. However, since we do not have an associated female of A. niger we would not be able to assign that female to a species.

Distribution

The species is known with certainty only from the type locality in Tanzania .

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Diptera

Family

Chironomidae

Genus

Allocladius

Loc

Allocladius salti (Freeman)

Ferrington Jr, Leonard C. & Saether, Ole A. 2011
2011
Loc

Allocladius niger (Freeman)

Freeman, P. & Cranston, P. S. 1980: 181
Kieffer, J. J. 1913: 28
1980
Loc

Smittia nigra, Freeman, 1956: 349

Freeman, P. 1956: 349
Freeman, P. 1953: 206
Kieffer, J. J. 1913: 28
1956
Loc

Pseudosmittia salti

Freeman, P. 1954: 442
1954
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