taxonID	type	description	language	source
03FFED28FFDE84161EF8561BFE59B3D0.taxon	description	The genus Petalocladius was erected by Sublette and Wirth (1972: 1) based on the male and female of P. setosus Sublette & Wirth, 1972, and described in some detail. Below we give an emended diagnosis to the genus to include characters from the new species.	en	Andersen, Trond, Höcherl, Amelie, Sanz-laParra, Annui Malla, Bastardo, Ruth H., Baranov, Viktor (2024): A New Species Of Petalocladius Sublette & Wirth, 1972 (Diptera, Chironomidae, Orthocladiinae) From The Dominican Republic, With An Emended Generic Diagnosis. CHIRONOMUS Journal of Chironomidae Research 2024 (38): 4-13, DOI: 10.5324/cjcr.v0i38.5641, URL: https://doi.org/10.5324/cjcr.v0i38.5641
03FFED28FFDD84151EF851F7FB60B08E.taxon	materials_examined	Type material: Holotype ♂, slide mounted in Euparal. Dominican Republic, La Vega Province, Ebano Verde Scientific Reserve, 19 ° 0 ’ 31 ” N 70 ° 5 ’ 43 ” W, 1065 m asl., 08.12.2019, light trap, leg. Amelie Höcherl (ZMBN).	en	Andersen, Trond, Höcherl, Amelie, Sanz-laParra, Annui Malla, Bastardo, Ruth H., Baranov, Viktor (2024): A New Species Of Petalocladius Sublette & Wirth, 1972 (Diptera, Chironomidae, Orthocladiinae) From The Dominican Republic, With An Emended Generic Diagnosis. CHIRONOMUS Journal of Chironomidae Research 2024 (38): 4-13, DOI: 10.5324/cjcr.v0i38.5641, URL: https://doi.org/10.5324/cjcr.v0i38.5641
03FFED28FFDD84151EF851F7FB60B08E.taxon	etymology	Etymology: Named after the Dominican Republic, using the latin suffix - ensis denoting country of origin. Diagnostic characters The new species is slightly smaller than Petalocladius setosus, with about 115 dorsocentrals compared to 56 in P. setosus. The inferior volsella is broadly subtriangular, while lingulate in P. setosus, and the gonostylus has a small but distinct megaseta and a subapical brush of spinelike seta, which seems to lack in P. setosus.	en	Andersen, Trond, Höcherl, Amelie, Sanz-laParra, Annui Malla, Bastardo, Ruth H., Baranov, Viktor (2024): A New Species Of Petalocladius Sublette & Wirth, 1972 (Diptera, Chironomidae, Orthocladiinae) From The Dominican Republic, With An Emended Generic Diagnosis. CHIRONOMUS Journal of Chironomidae Research 2024 (38): 4-13, DOI: 10.5324/cjcr.v0i38.5641, URL: https://doi.org/10.5324/cjcr.v0i38.5641
03FFED28FFDD84151EF851F7FB60B08E.taxon	description	Description Male (n = 1). Total length 2.94 mm. Wing length 1.62 mm. Total length / wing length 1.81. Wing length / length of profemur 2.64. Coloration. Head, thorax and abdomen brown, legs light brown. Antenna. AR 0.69. Ultimate flagellomere 296 μm long. Head. Eye hairy. Temporal setae 6 including 2 inner verticals, 2 outer verticals and 2 postorbitals. Clypeus with 17 setae. Tentorium 139 μm long, 30 μm wide; stipes 109 μm long. Palp as in Fig. 1 A; palp segment lengths (in μm): 39, 47, 78, 103, 131. Third palpomere with 2 sensilla clavata subapically, longest 13 μm long. Wing (Fig. 2). VR 1.16. Costal extension about 174 μm long. Brachiolum with 1 seta, R with 6 setae, remaining veins and cells bare. Squama with 7 setae. Sc and R 2 + 3 could not be discerned, but wing apparently not fully hardened. Legs. Spur of fore tibia 42 μm long, spurs of mid tibia 28 μm and 21 μm long, spurs of hind tibia 57 μm and 22 μm long. Width at apex of fore tibia 44 μm, of mid tibia 36 μm, of hind tibia 43 μm. Comb apparently with 6 setae, longest 33 μm long, shortest 21 μm long. Lengths and proportions of legs as in Table 1. Hypopygium (Figs 1 C, D, Figs 3 A-C). Tergite IX with 16 setae. Laterosternite IX with 6 setae. Transverse sternapodeme arched with weak oral projections, 117 μm long. Phallapodeme not measurable. Gonocoxite 267 μm long; densely setose, with some strong, wavy setae apico-laterally, longest about 110 μm long. Inferior volsella subtriangular, 51 μm wide basally, 68 μm long, with row of 7 strong spinelike setae along inner margin and additional weaker dorsal and ventral setae. Gonostylus 86 μm long, 66 μm wide, with brush of spine-like seta subapically, the longest slightly lanceolate and curved; megaseta small, 12 μm long, with denticles; heel 166 μm long, 16 μm wide medially, with rounded apex and few setae subapically, longest about 17 μm long. HR = 3.10; HV = 3.42. Female and immatures. Unknown.	en	Andersen, Trond, Höcherl, Amelie, Sanz-laParra, Annui Malla, Bastardo, Ruth H., Baranov, Viktor (2024): A New Species Of Petalocladius Sublette & Wirth, 1972 (Diptera, Chironomidae, Orthocladiinae) From The Dominican Republic, With An Emended Generic Diagnosis. CHIRONOMUS Journal of Chironomidae Research 2024 (38): 4-13, DOI: 10.5324/cjcr.v0i38.5641, URL: https://doi.org/10.5324/cjcr.v0i38.5641
03FFED28FFDB84121EF857D9FE76B0F9.taxon	description	The male and female of P. setosus were described in detail by Sublette and Wirth (1972: 2). However, the species is rather sparsely figured by Sublette and Wirth (1972: figs 1 - 3). David Pecor has therefore kindly sent us photos of the head, thorax, wing and hypopygium of the male (Figs 5 A-F). Systematics Phylogenetic analysis using Bayesian inference led to Petalocladius being a sister group to the clade Thalassosmittia + Mesosmittia + Pseudosmittia + Eretmoptera, with a weak support of 0.16 (Fig. 6), common for morphology-only reconstructions, where some taxa are having many missing character states. In the RougePlot reconstruction, Petalocladius was recovered in> 30 % of trees next to Abiskomyia (Fig. 7).	en	Andersen, Trond, Höcherl, Amelie, Sanz-laParra, Annui Malla, Bastardo, Ruth H., Baranov, Viktor (2024): A New Species Of Petalocladius Sublette & Wirth, 1972 (Diptera, Chironomidae, Orthocladiinae) From The Dominican Republic, With An Emended Generic Diagnosis. CHIRONOMUS Journal of Chironomidae Research 2024 (38): 4-13, DOI: 10.5324/cjcr.v0i38.5641, URL: https://doi.org/10.5324/cjcr.v0i38.5641
