Parachironomus aquiloni ...

• Main Author: Orel, Oksana V.
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: Zenodo 2017
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Arthropoda; Insecta; Diptera; Chironomidae; Parachironomus; Parachironomus aquiloni; Amderma; Arkhangelsk; nenets
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6041550; https://zenodo.org/doi/10.5281/zenodo.6041550

Parachironomus aquiloni s sp. n. (Figs 1–4, 11–16) Parachironomus ? hazelriggi Spies, 2000 sensu Krasheninnikov et al. (2015: 416) —misidentification. Type material. Holotype: male, Arkhangelsk region, Avtonomniy Nenets district, Ugra Peninsula, Pay-Khoy ridge, beach lagoon Amderma, N 69°45’05,6”, E 61°34’00,2”, 0 m above sea level, 25.vii.2013, leg. A. Krasheninnikov. Etymology. The species is named for the northern region of Russia in which the material was collected. The epithet is the genitive singular form of the Latin noun aquilo, a North wind, i.e. a noun in apposition for the purposes of nomenclature. Diagnostic characters. The adult male of P. aquiloni s sp. n. is distinguished by the following combination of features: frontal tubercles absent; wing length 2.30 mm; AR 2.63; LR P1 1.31; wing without cell setae; tergite IX without longitudinal anal tergite band, anal point without dorsal setae on base, longer than superior volsella, in lateral view wide with base much higher proximally than distally ... : Published as part of Orel, Oksana V., 2017, Two new species and new records of the genus Parachironomus Lenz, 1921 (Diptera, Chironomidae) from northern Russia, pp. 531-546 in Zootaxa 4312 (3) on pages 532-534, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4312.3.7, http://zenodo.org/record/856013 ...