Robackia Saether

• Main Authors: Yan, Chuncai, Wang, Xinhua
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: Zenodo 2006
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Arthropoda; Insecta; Diptera; Chironomidae; Robackia; Canada; Midland; Sakhalin
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5663868; https://zenodo.org/record/5663868

Key to the males of Robackia Saether 1. Anal point only with basal strong setae ....................... R. demeijerei (Kruseman, 1933) - Anal point with weak setae in addition to basal strong setae........................................ 2 2. Tergite IX with shoulders.............................................................................................. 3 - Tergite IX with posterior margin rounded..................................................................... 4 3. Superior volsella swollen distally, anal point nearly parallel-sided................................ ................................................................................................ R. pilicauda Saether, 1977 - Superior volsella not swollen distally, anal point widened in apical 1 / 3........................ ................................................................................................. R. aculeata Zorina, 2003 4. Anal point constricted basally, AR 2.00– 2.44 ...................... R. claviger (Townes, 1945) - Anal point nearly parallel-sided, AR 1.30 .......................................... R . parallela sp. n. : Published as part of Yan, Chuncai & Wang, Xinhua, 2006, Robackia Saether from China (Diptera: Chironomidae), pp. 53-59 in Zootaxa 1361 on page 58, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.174685 : {"references": ["Kruseman, G. (1933) Tendipedidae Neerlandicae. Pars I. Genus Tendipes cum generibus finitimis. Tijdschrift voor Entomologie, 76, 119 - 216.", "Saether, O. A. (1977) Taxonomic studies on Chironomidae: Nanocladius, Pseudochironomus, and the Harnischia complex. Bulletin of the Fisheries Research Board of Canada, 196, 1 - 143.", "Zorina, O. V. (2003) Four new species of non-biting midges of the Harnischia complex (Diptera, Chironomidae, Chironomidae) from Sakhalin Island (Russian Far East). Euroasian Entomological Journal, 2, 221 - 225.", "Townes, H. K. Jr. (1945) The Nearctic species of Tendipedini (Diptera, Tendipedidae) (= Chironomidae). American Midland Naturalist, 34, 1 - 206."]}