Tanytarsus rafaeli Reis, Lin et Ferreira-Keppler, 2022

Dantas, Galileu P. S., Hamada, Neusa & Giłka, Wojciech, 2023, Tanytarsus van der Wulp (Chironomidae, Diptera): new species from the western Amazon region in Peru and Brazil, new records from the Neotropics, and remarks on the taxonomy of the genus, Zootaxa 5271 (1), pp. 115-139 : 133

Tanytarsus rafaeli Reis, Lin et Ferreira-Keppler, 2022

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Tanytarsus rafaeli Reis, Lin et Ferreira-Keppler, 2022: 431 (adult male; Brazil, Amazonas, Manaus).

Material examined: BRAZIL. Amazonas: Manaus, Experimental Station ZF-2, Km 14, 02°35′21″S, 60°06′55′′W, Malaise trap, 15-28.ii.2017, legs. J.A. Rafael & F.F. Xavier, 2 ♁♁ ( INPA) . Tocantins: Palmas, Igarapé da Onça , 02-14.vi.2016, 48°15′31.10″W, 10°06′44.50″S, 596m a.s.l., Malaise trap, legs. S. R . M Couceiro, G. Amora, 2 ♁♁ ( INPA); Igarapé do Gilson , 02-14.vi.2016, 48°12′45.40″W, 10°10′24.80″S, 586m a.s.l., Malaise trap, legs. S. R . M Couceiro, G. Amora, 1 ♁ ( INPA) .

Remarks. In the illustrations ( Fig. 9 ), we present several variations of the anal point, as well as the superior volsella and the digitus of Tanytarsus rafaeli , in the dorsal and ventral aspects, with individual parts marked with colours to avoid overinterpretation of these diagnostic characters in the future. For justification of including T. rafaeli to the kiche group see remarks to T. marianae (above), both species considered here as morphologically close.

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FIGURE 9. Tanytarsus rafaeli Reis, Lin et Ferreira-Keppler, 2022, male, variations of diagnostic structures.A: anal point; B, C: superior volsella and digitus photographed (B) and drawn (C); superior volsella in the drawings (red) with anteroventral projection (yellow) and digitus (green), in dorsal (d) and ventral aspect (v).