Genus Echinocladius Cranston, 2000
- Echinocladius Cranston, P.S. 2000. Three new species of Chironomidae (Diptera) from the Australian Wet Tropics. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 46(1): 107-127 [109].
Type species:
Echinocladius martini Cranston, 2000 by original designation.
Distribution
States
Australian Capital Territory, New South Wales, Queensland, Tasmania, Victoria
Extra Distribution Information
Australian Endemic.
IBRA
ACT, NSW, Qld, Tas, Vic: Australian Alps (AA), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Ben Lomond (BEL), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Desert Uplands (DEU), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Flinders (FLI), King (KIN), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mulga Lands (ML), Nandewar (NAN), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), New England Tablelands (NET), NSW North Coast (NNC), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Riverina (RIV), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Tasmanian Central Highlands (TCH), Tasmanian Northern Midlands (TNM), Tasmanian Northern Slopes (TNS), Tasmanian South East (TSE), Tasmanian Southern Ranges (TSR), Tasmanian West (TWE), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP), Wet Tropics (WT)
Diagnosis
Adult with kidney-shaped eye, thorax with well-developed antepronotum, lacking acrostichals, wing with R2+3 compressed between R1 and R4+5, tarsi with pulvilli, hypopygium with short bare anal point, with inferior volsella. Pupa lacks frontal setae, has mutiplied dorsocentral setae, carries dense fine spines on tergites and sternites, and the short anal lobe has macrosetae comprising 3 stout short spines. Larva purple in life, having large dilate Lauterborn organs, a 6-segmented antenna, simple, broadly lanceolate SI seta; pecten epipharyngis with 3 unfused rounded scales; mandible apical tooth shorter than combined width of 4 inner teeth; mentum with simple, broad median tooth with median nipple and 5 pairs of evenly decreasing lateral teeth.
History of changes
| Published | As part of group | Action Date | Action Type | Compiler(s) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 30-Jun-2015 | ORTHOCLADIINAE | 29-Sep-2015 | MODIFIED | |
| 26-Apr-2012 | 26-Apr-2012 | MODIFIED | ||
| 12-Feb-2010 | (import) |