Endotribelos
Creators: name: Trivinho-Strixino, Susana
name: Pepinelli, Mateus
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2015
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Diptera
Chironomidae
Endotribelos

description: Key to larvae of Endotribelos
1. Mentum with odd number of teeth; median tooth shorter than 1st lateral........................................... 2
- Mentum with even number of teeth; median teeth shorter or sub-equal than 1st lateral................................ 5
2. Mentum with 11 or 13 teeth............................................................................. 3
- Mentum with 15 teeth.................................................................................. 4
3. Mentum with median tooth slightly sutured; 6th lateral tooth separated from the other lateral teeth...... E. semibruneus sp. n.
- Median tooth not sutured; 6th lateral tooth not separated.............................................. E. hesperium
4. Median tooth slightly sutured as long as 1st lateral............................................... E. sublettei sp. n.
- Median tooth not sutured and shorter than 1st lateral................................................ E. sp. duke 1
5. Mandible with 3 inner teeth partially covered by lateral extension of dorsal tooth............................ E. euterpe
- Inner teeth of mandible not covered by dorsal tooth...........................................................6
6. Mandible with 2 inner teeth............................................................................. 7
- Mandible with 3 or 4 inner teeth.......................................................................... 8
7. Mandible with a large concavity posterior to basal inner tooth; mentum with 14 teeth....................... E. talaumae
- Mandible without the concavity posterior to basal inner tooth; mentum with 10 teeth...................... E. sp. duke 2
8. Mandible with 3 inner teeth..................................................................... E. albatum
- Mandible with 4 inner teeth............................................................................. 9
9. Mentum with 12 or 14 teeth............................................................................ 10
- Mentum with 16 teeth.................................................................................13
10. 4th inner tooth of mandible separated from others inner teeth by a little gap............................. E. jiboia sp. n.
- 4th inner tooth of mandible not separated from others inner teeth................................................ 11
11. Labral sclerite 2 with a median horseshoe-shaped depression; mentum with 12 teeth....................... E. sp. kleine
- Labral sclerite 2 not as above; mentum with 14 teeth......................................................... 12
12. Median teeth of mentum shorter than 1st lateral; 2nd lateral teeth very short and partially fused with 1st laterals.... E. calophylli
- Median teeth slightly shorter than 1st lateral; 2nd lateral teeth not fused with 1st laterals...... E. grodhausi; E. jaragua sp. n.
13. Antenna with large Lauterborn organs partially covering the 3rd segment; mentum with short median teeth; 2nd lateral teeth smaller than the 1st and 3rd.................................................................... E. sp. anhumas
- Antena and mentum not as above........................................................................14
14. 2nd lateral teeth of the mentum shorter than the 3rd................................................ E. bicolor sp. n.
- 2nd lateral teeth of the mentum slightly or as long as the 3rd laterals.............................................. 15
15. AR <1; mentum short, <130 µm.................................................................... E. ficus
- AR> 1; mentum wider,> 200 µm........................................................... E. fulvidus sp. n.
description: Published as part of Trivinho-Strixino, Susana & Pepinelli, Mateus, 2015, A systematic study on Endotribelos Grodhaus (Diptera: Chironomidae) from Brazil including DNA barcoding to link males and females, pp. 1-41 in Zootaxa 3936 (1) on page 3, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3936.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/288149