Neotropical Allocladius Kieffer, 1913 and Pseudosmittia Edwards, 1932 (Diptera: Chironomidae)

• DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.2472.1.1
• Publication Date: 2018-12-11T04:14:26Z
• Authors: TROND ANDERSEN; OLE A. SÆTHER; HUMBERTO F. MENDES
• Keywords: 0106 biological sciences; 01 natural sciences

The Neotropical species of the genera Pseudosmittia Edwards, 1932 and Allocladius Kieffer, 1913 are described or redescribed, short generic diagnoses given, keys to males presented. following new figured as male imagines: globosus, A. quadrus, scrotus, adunca, P. amorimi, cambuciensis, carioca, catarinense, gibbistyla, invirgata, lamasi, lamellata, magdae, nana, palpina, paulista, pinhoi, roquei, tropis, umbonata, uncata. bilobulatus (Edwards) comb. n., fortispinatus neobilobulatus (Paggi) joaquimvenancioi (Messias et4 · Zootaxa 2472 © 2010 Magnolia PressOliveira), windwardensis (Sæther) redescribed imagines. Diagnoses brachydicrana (Edwards), digitata Sæther, forcipata (Goetghebuer) given. female bilobulatus, pupa neobilobulatus, a from Chile possibly belonging group Brazil, an unplaced larva Falkland Islands also described.