Paracladopelma nigritulum Goetghebuer

• Main Author: Zorina, Oksana V.
• Format: Other/Unknown Material
• Language: unknown
• Published: 2006
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Arthropoda; Insecta; Diptera; Chironomidae; Paracladopelma; Paracladopelma nigritulum; Combs; Orlovka; Sakhalin
• Online Access: https://zenodo.org/record/6258983; https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6258983

Paracladopelma nigritulum (Goetghebuer) (Figs. 20–21) Chironomus (Cryptochironomus) nigritulus Goetghebuer, 1942: 3 Paracladopelma nigritula (Goetghebuer); Lenz (1959: 440) Chironomus (Chironomus) claripennis Edwards, 1929: 387 Tendipes (Cryptochironomus) claripennis (Edwards); Goetghebuer (1937: 35) Paracladopelma obscura Brundin, 1949: 763; Reiss (1968: 203) Material. 1 male, Russia, Primorye Territory, Ussuri River at about 4–5 km from Kamenka Village, 3.VII. 1993, leg. T. Tiunova; 2 males, Sakhalin Island, Ossoy River, 19.VIII. 2001, leg. T. Tiunova; 1 male, Evay River, 7–8.IX. 2001, leg. T. Tiunova; 1 male, Tym River 12 km from Nogliki Village, 30–31.VII. 2002, leg. E. Makarchenko; 3 males, Starodinskaya River near 45–50 km from Krasnoyarsk Village, 22.VII. 2002, leg. E. Makarchenko; 1 male, Orlovka River near 5 km from Pilvo Village, 25.VII. 2003, leg. E. Makarchenko; 1 male, Tym River 2 km from railway bridge through Parkata River, 2–3.VIII. 2003, leg. E. Makarchenko. Male imago (n = 7) Total length 3.5 mm. Wing length 2.5–2.8 mm. Total length/wing length 1.49. Coloration. Scape and flagellomeres dark brown; ground color of thorax brown, mesonotal stripes and postnotum dark brown; legs and abdomen brown. Head. Frontal tubercles 13.5–18 m long and 9 m wide. Verticals 13–19. Clypeus with 12–15 setae. Antenna 1273–1482 m long. AR 2.19–2.55. Maxillary palp 581–630 m long, lengths of last 4 palpomeres (in m): 54–68; 145–167; 158–180; 216–234. Palp length/head width 0.95–0.99; antenna length/palp length 2.08–2.35. Thorax. Antepronotals 6–13, acrostichals 0, dorsocentrals 8–12, prealars 3–6, supraalars 1. Scutellum with 10–12 setae. Wing. Length 2.5–2.8 mm, width 0.70–0.76. VR 1.02–1.06. R with 11–19, R 1 with 11–16, R 4 + 5 with 12–21 setae. Squama with 9–18, brachiolum with 2 setae. Legs. Terminal combs with 2 spurs (length 18 m). LR 1 1.25–1.53, LR 2 0.48–0.52, LR 3 0.59–0.63; SV 1 1.45–1.72, SV 2 4.0– 4.15, SV 3 3.07–3.32; BV 1 1.78–1.92, BV 2 2.84–3.10, BV 3 2.61–2.80; BR 1 2.5 –3.0, BR 2 3.38–3.83, BR 3 ...