PSEUDOCHIRONOMINI, SAETHER, 1977

Giłka, Wojciech, Zakrzewska, Marta, Lukashevich, Elena D., Vorontsov, Dmitry D., Soszyńska-Maj, Agnieszka, Skibińska, Kornelia & Cranston, Peter S., 2022, Wanted, tracked down and identified: Mesozoic non-biting midges of the subfamily Chironominae (Chironomidae, Diptera), Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 194, pp. 874-892 : 881

PSEUDOCHIRONOMINI ? INCERTAE SEDIS

( FIG. 3A–H )

Material examined: PIN No. 3130/223: adult male (severely damaged, head and both forelegs missing) preserved in a 2.9 × 2.4 × 0.9-mm piece of the Taimyr amber (Yantardakh, Taimyr Peninsula, Russia; Kheta Formation, Santonian, Late Cretaceous; Fig. 3A ).

Description [adult male (N = 1)]

Total length: Only thorax (~610 µm long) and abdomen preserved (~ 1095 mm long); wing length: ~1000 µm (arculus not visible).

Figures

Figure 3. Pseudochironomini? incertae sedis, adult male, PIN 3130/223; Late Cretaceous, Santonian; Yantardakh, Taimyr Peninsula, Russia. A, inclusion in amber embedded in epoxy resin. B, habitus. C, D, wing, with RM vein area magnified (D). E, F, tibial armature of mid (E) and hindleg (F). G, H, hypopygium in dorsolateral (G) and ventrolateral aspect (H).