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Issue: Vol. 217 No. 1: 18 Jun. 2003
Type: Article
Published: 2003-06-18
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.217.1.1
Page range: 1–20
Abstract views: 87
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Redescription of Rhinocladius Edwards (Diptera: Chironomidae: Orthocladiinae)

Museum of Zoology, Department of Zoology, University of Bergen, N-5020 Bergen, Norway
Museum of Zoology, Department of Zoology, University of Bergen, N-5020 Bergen, Norway
Diptera Rhinocladius Orthocladiinae Chironomidae Argentina Chile

Abstract

Diagnoses of male and female imagines of the genera Rhinocladius are given. R. culicinus known only as female imago is redescribed. R. longirostris is redescribed as male and female imagines. Parsimony analyses show that Rhinocladius, although keying to Apometriocnemus Sæther in Cranston et al. (1989), most likely belong in the Pseudorthocladius group of genera.

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