Cladotanytarsus sagittifer Giłka

Puchalski, Mateusz & Giłka, Wojciech, 2017, Cladotanytarsus Kieffer (Diptera: Chironomidae): several distinctive species reviewed on the basis of records from Canada and USA, Zootaxa 4242 (2), pp. 344-358 : 355

publication ID	https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4242.2.7
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DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5613481
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scientific name	Cladotanytarsus sagittifer Giłka
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Cladotanytarsus sagittifer Giłka View in CoL

Cladotanytarsus sagittifer Giłka, 2009 View in CoL : Giłka 2009a: 671 (adult male, UAE).

Material examined. Holotype and paratypes ( Giłka 2009a). UNITED ARAB EMIRATES. Al Wathba Wetland Reserve ( AWWR), October 2014, 1 male , June 2015, 1 male, Malaise traps, leg. A. Saji & A. van Harten. Deposit in DIZP.

Remarks. Adult males of this peculiar species have an extremely elongated, sagittate and darkly pigmented hypopygial anal point lacking crests and spinulae ( Giłka 2009a, figs 13, 14). Cladotanytarsus sagittifer has so far been known from three sites in the United Arab Emirates. The present record comes from the Al Wathba Wetland Reserve ( 40 km SE of Abu Dhabi) - one of the most important inland wetlands in the UAE, waterlogged during the winter months, presumably the result of sub-surface flow and hydrostatic back-up during spring high tides ( Soorae et al. 2014).

Kingdom	Animalia
Phylum	Arthropoda
Class	Insecta
Order	Diptera
Family	Chironomidae
SubTribe	Tanytarsina
Genus	Cladotanytarsus