Parachironomus Lenz from China and Japan (Diptera,Chironomidae) |
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| Authors: | Chun-Cai Yan Jiao Yan Li Jiang Qin Guo Ting Liu Xin-yu Ge Xin-Hua Wang Bao-ping Pan |
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| Affiliation: | 1.Tianjin Key Laboratory of Animal and Plant Resistance,Tianjin Normal University, Tianjin, 300387, China ;2.College of Life Sciences, Nankai University, Tianjin 300071, China |
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| Abstract: | Members of the genus Parachironomus Lenz known from China and Japan are revised, and a key to their male adults is given. Parachironomuspoyangensissp. n. is described in this life stage. Parachironomusfrequens (Johannsen) and Parachironomusmonochromus (van der Wulp) are recorded from China for the first time, thus are redescribed from Chinese specimens. Parachironomuskamaabeus Sasa & Tanaka and Parachironomustoneabeus Sasa & Tanaka are new junior synonyms of Parachironomusfrequens. Three Chinese or Japanese species formerly placed in Parachironomus are transferred to other genera, resulting in the new combinations Cryptochironomusinafegeus (Sasa, Kitami & Suzuki), Demicryptochironomus (Irmakia) lobus (Yan, Sæther, Jin & Wang), and Microchironomuslacteipennis (Kieffer). Chironomussauteri Kieffer, Parachironomuskisobilobalis Sasa & Kondo and Parachironomuskuramaexpandus Sasa are removed from Parachironomus; the last of these three denotes a valid species of uncertain generic placement, the first two are nomina dubia. |
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| Keywords: | taxon-name" > family" >Chironomidae, taxon-name" > genus" >Parachironomus, new species, new combinations, new synonyms, key |
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