Species Stictocladius uniserialis (Freeman, 1961)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Diplocladius (Stictocladius) uniserialis Freeman, P. 1961. The Chironomidae (Diptera) of Australia. Australian Journal of Zoology 9: 611-737 [643].

  Type data:

   Holotype ANIC ♂ adult, Mount Wellington, TAS.
  Paratype(s) ANIC 3♂ 2♀ adults; NMV ♂ adult; USNM 3♂ adults.

Generic Combinations

• Stictocladius uniserialis (Freeman, 1961). —
  Brundin, L. 1966. Transantarctic relationships and their significance, as evidenced by chironomid midges, with a monograph of the subfamilies Podonominae and Aphroteniinae and the austral Heptagyiae. Kongliga Svenska Vetenskaps-Academiens Nya Handlingar, Stockholm 4 11(1): 1-416

Distribution

States

Australian Capital Territory, New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

ACT, NSW, Qld, SA, Tas, Vic: Australian Alps (AA), Ben Lomond (BEL), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Flinders (FLI), Kanmantoo (KAN), NSW North Coast (NNC), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Wet Tropics (WT)

Distribution References

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: volant.

Diagnosis

The imagines are separable from an undescribed species by having the wings marked by brown, front leg ratio 0.63-0.69 in male, 0.69-0.70 in female, midleg ratio of female 0.50-0.54, and costal extension in female 13-25 μm long (male extension 25-45 μm long). The neck of the seminal capsule one-fourth to nearly one-third as long as the capsule.

The pupa differs from others by the conjunctives lacking any spinulation; with row of posterior spines on sternite IV absent, or if present, medially interrupted, and the spinulation is mostly coarse on T IX.

The larva is characterised having weak claws on posterior parapods; mentum at least slightly darker than head capsule, with single, more or less triangular median tooth, with indistinct ventral tooth posterior to first lateral tooth, and no indication of a ventral tooth laterally of median tooth; antennal ratio about 0.55; and postmentum 113-120 μm long.

Diagnosis References

Cranston, P.S. & Saether, O.A. 2010. Australasian Stictocladius Edwards (Diptera: Chironomidae) diagnosed and described. Australian Journal of Entomology 49(2): 126-144 [142]

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