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Published on: July 24, 2015
Tanytarsus deimos group (Chironomidae, Diptera) for two distinctive species from the Neotropics
Wojciech Giłka1, Galileu P S Dantas2, Trond Andersen3
1University of Gdańsk; Faculty of Biology; Department of Invertebrate Zoology and Parasitology; Laboratory of Systematic Zoology; Wita Stwosza 59; 80-308 Gdańsk; Poland; Aquatic Invertebrate Research Group (AIRG); Museo de Peces de Agua Dulce e Invertebrados (MUPADI); Universidad Autónoma de Chiriquí (UNACHI); David; Panama. Sistema Nacional de Investigación de Panamá (SNI); David; Panama. wojciech.gilka@ug.edu.pl.
Abstract:
Two species of the genus Tanytarsus van der Wulp, 1874 are described: T. deimos Giłka, Dantas et Andersen, sp. nov. (Mexico, Panama) and T. phobos Dantas, Giłka et Andersen, sp. nov. (Peru). Small adult males having wings with a high venarum ratio, unpaired tibial spurs on mid and hind legs, a hypopygial anal point lanceolate without spinulae or bars, a digitus with a well-developed basal tubercle bearing a long seta, a stout median volsella, and a gonostylus distinctly shorter than the gonocoxite, are a set of characters common to the two close species for which a new group is here proposed.
