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Issue: Vol. 4226 No. 3: 27 Jan. 2017
Type: Article
Published: 2017-01-26
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4226.3.4
Page range: 390–404
Abstract views: 67
PDF downloaded: 1

A new species in the Simulium vernum group from the Alps of southern Germany: Simulium arminii (Diptera: Simuliidae)

District Government of Lower Bavaria, Regierungsplatz 540, 84028 Landshut Germany.
Department of Plant and Environmental Sciences, Clemson University, Clemson, SC 29634-0310 USA.
Diptera aquatic insects black flies new species polytene chromosomes streams

Abstract

Simulium arminii new species is described from the Alps of southern Germany. It is characterized by a broad trapezoidal ventral plate in the male, long slender arms of the genital fork in the female, a weakly developed or absent anterodorsal projection on the thinly woven cocoon, and a long median hypostomal tooth in the larva. The species is chromosomally similar to Simulium beltukovae (Rubtsov) but differs most conspicuously by the absence of a chromocenter. It is known from two small, springfed streams above the timber line, in association with Prosimulium latimucro (Enderlein) and Simulium bavaricum Seitz and Adler.

 

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