Simulium ceylonicum
Creators: name: Jitklang, Sanae
name: Kuvangkadilok, Chaliow
name: Baimai, Visut
name: Takaoka, Hiroyuki
name: Adler, Peter H.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2008
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Diptera
Simuliidae
Simulium
Simulium ceylonicum

description: Key to chromosomes of 11 cytoforms in the S. ceylonicum group in Thailand
1 Ring of Balbiani closer than double bubble to centromere.........................................................................2
- Double bubble closer than ring of Balbiani to centromere..........................................................................6
2 Blister and its heavy band reversed by inversion IIIS-1 (Fig. 3) ............................................. inthanonense
- Blister and its heavy band standard (Fig. 3)................................................................................................3
3 Double bubble and ring of Balbiani near end of IIS (Fig. 4A)....................................................................4
- Double bubble and ring of Balbiani about halfway between middle and end of IIS............................ sp. C
4 Parabalbiani and jagged group reversed (Fig. 5A) .............................................................. trangense n. sp.
- Parabalbiani and jagged group standard......................................................................................................5
5 IIIL with m2 marker distant from end (Fig. 6E)...................................................................... nr. asakoae 4
- IIIL with m2 marker near end (Fig. 6G) ............................................................................................ sheilae
6 Blister and its heavy band reversed by inversion IIIS-2 (Fig. 3) ........................................... curtatum n. sp.
- Blister and its heavy band standard (Fig. 3)................................................................................................7
7 Ring of Balbiani adjacent to double bubble................................................................................................8
- Ring of Balbiani and double bubble separated by 1.5 x width of ring of Balbiani (Fig. 4A) ....................... ......................................................................................................................................... doisaketense n. sp.
8 IIIL with polarity of m1 marker reversed....................................................................................................9
- IIIL with polarity of m1 marker standard..................................................................................................10
9 Inversion IIL-9 present (Fig. 5B)............................................................................................. nr. asakoae 3
- Inversion IIL-9 absent................................................................................................................ nr. sheilae 3
10 Inversion IIL-9 present (Fig. 5B).............................................................................................nr. asakoae 2
- Inversion IIL-9 absent ...................................................................................................................... asakoae
description: Published as part of Jitklang, Sanae, Kuvangkadilok, Chaliow, Baimai, Visut, Takaoka, Hiroyuki & Adler, Peter H., 2008, Cytogenetics and morphotaxonomy of the Simulium (Gomphostilbia) ceylonicum species group (Diptera: Simuliidae) in Thailand, pp. 1-28 in Zootaxa 1917 on pages 24-25, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.184626