Paracricotopus Brundin, 1956

Namayandeh, Armin & Ghaderi, Edris, 2025, A review of Paracricotopus (Brundin, 1947), with the description of two new species and redescription of the adult males of Paracricotopus niger (Kieffer, 1913) and Paracricotopus uliginosus (Brundin, 1947) sensu Saether (1980) (Chironomidae: Diptera), Zootaxa 5569 (1), pp. 138-158 : 140

publication ID

https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5569.1.5

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DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14705190

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scientific name

Paracricotopus Brundin, 1956
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Generic diagnosis. As diagnosed by Thienemann & Harnisch (1932) and Saether (1980b) with the following additions and corrections:

Imago. Adult with varying colored haltere, pale to dark; tergites with 2 or more lateral setae, tergite I with anterior basal setae, and posterior marginal setae in parallel diagonal rows, tergites II–VIII with anterior basal setae, and posterior marginal setae in two or more parallel or slightly diagonal rows; sternites III–VIII with two or more parallel or slightly diagonal rows of basal and marginal setae; adult male gonostylus with conspicuous to inconspicuous preapical crista dorsalis.

Larva. Premandible with mesal spiny projection.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Diptera

Family

Chironomidae

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