Pseudosmittia Edwards 1932
Creators: name: Mukherjee, Tuhar
name: Som, Dipak Kumar
name: Hazra, Niladri
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Diptera
Chironomidae
Pseudosmittia

description: Key to the males of the Oriental species of Pseudosmittia Edwards, 1932   
 1. Gonostylus strongly curved; inferior volsella absent (Ferrington and Saether, 2011 —Fig. 54) (Oriental China, Japan, and Afrotropical)......................................................... Pseudosmittia guineesis (Kieffer, 1918)   
- Gonostylus not curved; inferior volsella present............................................................. 2  
 2. Gonostylus broad; crista dorsalis not well developed (Fig. 4) (India)................................. P. valida sp. n.   
- Gonostylus slender; crista dorsalis well developed........................................................... 3  
 3. Virga U-shaped; inferior volsella low, accessory lobe barely indicated; anal lobe reduced (Ferrington and Saether, 2011 —Fig. 90) (Oriental Japan)...................................................... P. tokaraneoa Sasa and Suzuki, 1995   
- Virga not U-shaped; inferior volsella well developed, accessory lobe well developed; anal lobe well developed.......... 4  
 4. Crista dorsalis rounded; Cu 1 straight (Ferrington and Saether, 2011 —Fig. 68) (Oriental China and Nearctic)................................................................................ P. cristagata Ferrington and Saether, 2011   
 - Crista dorsalis not rounded; Cu 1 not straight................................................................ 5   
5. Accessory lobe of inferior volsella present................................................................. 6  
- Accessory lobe of inferior volsella absent.................................................................. 9  
 6. Gonostylus bifurcate with inner lobe crenulate; AR less than 1 (Ferrington and Saether, 2011 —Fig. 80) (Oriental China, Japan, and the Holarctic)................................................................. P. mathildae Albu, 1968   
- Gonostylus simple; AR greater than 1..................................................................... 7  
 7. Anal point complex (Ferrington and Saether, 2011 —Fig. 62) (Indonesia)....... P. tobaduovicesima Kikuchi and Sasa, 1990   
- Anal point simple.................................................................................... 8  
 8. Inferior volsella bluntly triangular; dorsocentrals 4 (Ferrington and Saether, 2011 —Fig. 63) (Japan and Afrotropical)....................................................................................... P. topei Lehmann, 1979   
 - Inferior volsella sharply triangular; dorsocentrals 8–13 (Ferrington and Saether, 2011 —Fig. 64) (Thailand).................................................................................. P. malickyi Ferrington and Saether, 2011   
9. Antenna with apical seta; inferior volsella long............................................................ 10  
- Antenna without apical seta; inferior volsella short......................................................... 11  
 10. Inferior volsella short with a basal projection, without accessory lobe (Ferrington and Saether, 2011 —Fig. 106) (Oriental Japan; and Oceania)................................................................ P. bifurcata (Tokunaga, 1936)   
 - Inferior volsella long without a basal projection, with accessory lobe (Ferrington and Saether, 2011 —Fig. 79) (Oriental Japan)............................................................................ P. littoralis (Tokunaga, 1936)   
11. Gonostylus curved in apical one-half to one-third.......................................................... 12  
- Gonostylus straight.................................................................................. 15  
 12. Post cubitus forked; strong apical antennal seta present (Ferrington and Saether, 2011 —Fig. 72) (Oriental Japan, Thailand; and Palaearctic)...................................................... P. nishiharaensis Sasa and Hasegawa, 1988   
- Post cubitus simple; strong apical antennal seta absent...................................................... 13  
 13. AR greater than 1 (Fig. 2) (India).............................................................. P. luna sp. n.   
- AR less than 1...................................................................................... 14  
 14. Anal point with small apical projection on a broad triangular base; AR about 0.9 (Ferrington and Saether, 2011 —Fig. 75) (Thailand)......................................................... P. siamensis Ferrington and Saether, 2011   
 - Anal point broadly triangular without apical projection; AR about 0.6 (Ferrington and Saether, 2011 —Fig. 74) (Oriental China; also, Oceania and Afrotrpical)................................................... P. triangula (Tokunaga, 1964)   
 15. Inferior volsella with a posterior bulge; tergite IX without caudolateral corners (Ferrington and Saether, 2011 —Fig. 117) (China, Thailand; also, Holarctic and Neotropical)....................................... P. forcipata (Goetghebuer, 1921)   
 - Inferior volsella digitiform, apically rounded; tergite IX with caudolateral corners (Ferrington and Saether, 2011 —Fig. 103) (Thailand)......................................................... P. digitrienta Ferrington and Saether, 2011
description: Published as part of Mukherjee, Tuhar, Som, Dipak Kumar & Hazra, Niladri, 2022, Two new species of Pseudosmittia Edwards, 1932 from India with a key to Oriental species adult males (Diptera: Chironomidae: Orthocladiinae), pp. 51-62 in Zootaxa 5200 (1) on pages 59-60, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5200.1.4, http://zenodo.org/record/7251879