Ablabesmyia (Karelia) illinoensis Malloch ...

• Main Author: Saether, Ole A.
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: Zenodo 2011
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Arthropoda; Insecta; Diptera; Chironomidae; Ablabesmyia; Ablabesmyia illinoensis; Beaver Creek
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5679762; https://zenodo.org/doi/10.5281/zenodo.5679762

Ablabesmyia (Karelia) illinoensis (Malloch) (Figs 2 A; 3 A; 4 A, H; 5 C; 6) Material examined. CANADA: Manitoba, Lake Winnipeg: Pine Dock, 1 male, 10.vii. 1969; 3 km off Grand Rapids, 1 male, 13.vii. 1969; Gull Harbour, 1 male, 16.vii. 1969; Gimli Government Wharf, 1 male, 24.vii. 1969; Victoria Beach, 25.vii. 1969; Beaver Point, 2 males, 6. & 11.viii. 1971; 20 Mile Creek, 2 males, 6.viii. & 1.ix. 1971; Hecla Island, 10 males, 27.vii. 1971; Beaver Creek, emergence trap, 1 male, 14.vii. 1971, 1 male reared from larva, 8.vi. 1971. The blade of the aedeagus of the male in all the Lake Winnipeg specimens is broad to near apex and with a short pointed mesally directed apex (Fig. 6 D; Roback 1959 figs 38, 39) i. e. different from that drawn by Roback (1971 fig. 561) and closer to A. (K.) philosphagnos (Roback 1971 fig. 564). Roback (1971 fig. 588), however, seems to indicate a blade close to the one found in the Lake Winnipeg population. The larval maxillary palp has an indication of a partially ... : Published as part of Saether, Ole A., 2011, Notes on Canadian Ablabesmyia Johannsen, with keys to known Nearctic immatures of the genus (Diptera: Chironomidae), pp. 43-62 in Zootaxa 3069 on page 47, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.279010 ...