Zavreliella marmorata ( Wulp, 1859 )

Mukherjee, Tuhar, Mukherjee, Bindarika & Hazra, Niladri, 2020, Revision of the Oriental species of Polypedilum Kieffer (Diptera: Chironomidae) with their phylogenetic relationship, Zootaxa 4820 (1), pp. 31-69 : 51-52

Zavreliella marmorata ( Wulp, 1859)

Chironomus marmorata Wulp, 1859: 166 .

Chironomus clavaticrus Kieffer, 1913: 17 .

Zavreliella marmorata ( Wulp, 1859) : Kieffer, 1920: 334.

Polypedilum insolitum Chaudhuri, Guha and Dasgupta, 1981: 127 ; Hazra, Niitsuma and Chaudhuri, 2016: 90 Syn. n.

Materials examined. 1 male labelled ‘ Polypedilum insolitum India, West Bengal, Alipurduar, Duars (26.49, 89.53), Coll. T. Dutta , 4.xi.1983 ’; 2 males, labelled ‘ Polypedilum insolit u m, India, West Bengal, Alipurduar, BSN/ Duars (26.49, 89.53), Coll. T. Dutta , 20.viii.1984 ’.

Remarks ( Figure 10 ). The club–shaped apical foreleg and longitudinal medial elevation of the abdomen of P. insolitum and characteristic wing pattern markings and hypopygium structure leads us to conclude that P. insolitum is a junior synonym of Z. marmorata .

Distribution. The species has wide distribution occurring in all the Old World zoogeographical realms except the Afrotropical region. The species is reported from Oriental China, Belgium, Czech Republic, France, Germany, Great Britain, Hungary, The Netherlands, and Sweden. The species Z. marmorata is for the first time reported from India in this study.

Figures

FIGURES 10A–C. Photographs of adult male of Zavreliella marmorata (Wulp, 1985). A, Wing; B, Hypopygium; C, Abdomen. All to scale: 1 mm.