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Issue: Vol. 5566 No. 3: 9 Jan. 2025
Type: Article
Published: 2025-01-09
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5566.3.9
Page range: 594-600
Abstract views: 155
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First description of male from parthenogenesis in a chironomid species Paratanytarsus grimmii (Schneider, 1885) (Diptera: Chironomidae)

Tsuruga City; Fukui Prefecture; Japan
Laboratory of Aquatic Ecology; Graduate School of Integrated Science for Life; Hiroshima University; 1-4-4 Kagamiyama; Higashi- Hiroshima City; Hiroshima; Japan
Laboratory of Aquatic Ecology; Graduate School of Integrated Science for Life; Hiroshima University; 1-4-4 Kagamiyama; Higashi- Hiroshima City; Hiroshima; Japan
Diptera parthenogenesis non-biting midges pest morphology barcoding

Abstract

Paratanytarsus grimmii (Schneider, 1885) is a parthenogenetic species of the family Chironomidae and a pest of water supply systems. This is an apomictic, parthenogenetic species that lacks males. Adult males of P. grimmii have not been known in previous studies, however have been described for the first time based on specimens reared from eggs in the laboratory and confirmed by DNA sequencing. The male of P. grimmii is closely related to those of P. laetipes (Zetterstedt, 1850) and P. toyaprimus Sasa, 1988 owing to shared morphological features of the hypopygium.

 

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