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Issue: Vol. 4236 No. 2: 23 Feb. 2017
Type: Article
Published: 2017-02-22
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4236.2.7
Page range: 327–334
Abstract views: 86
PDF downloaded: 1

Notes on the genus Conchapelopia Fittkau (Diptera: Chironomidae: Tanypodinae) from southern China, with description of a new species

Department of Biology, Faculty of Education, Shizuoka University, 836 Ôya, Suruga-ku, Shizuoka, 422-8529 Japan.
Institute of Groundwater and Earth Science, Jinan University, Guangzhou 510632, P. R. China.
Diptera Chironomidae Tanypodinae Conchapelopia new species China

Abstract

Two interesting species, Conchapelopia togamaculosa Sasa & Okazawa and a new species, Conchapelopia brachiata sp. n., were collected from southern China. The male, pupa and larva of the new species are described, and new distributions of the former species are noted. Although the male of the new species is very distinct from that of the former in the hypopygial median volsella, the pupa and larva stunningly resemble those of the former.

 

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