Cladotanytarsus
Creators: name: Wang, Xinhua
name: Guo, Yuhong
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2004
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Diptera
Chironomidae
Cladotanytarsus

description: Key to males of Cladotanytarsus from China
1 Frontal tubercles present ............................................................................................... 2
– Frontal tubercles absent ............................................................................................... 7
2 Anal point short and tapering; spinules absent (Fig. 3; Langton & Garcia 2000: Figs. 1–6; Wang & Zheng 1993: Figs. 12, 13) ................................ C. conversus (Johannsen)
– Anal point spinules present ........................................................................................... 3
3 Spinules of anal point less than 5 (Fig. 8; Lindeberg 1964: Fig. 3; Wang & Zheng 1993: Figs. 10, 11) .......................................................... C. nigrovittatus (Goetghebuer)
– Spinules of anal point more than 15.............................................................................. 4
4 Abdomen banded; apex of digitus pointed (Fig. 13; Freeman 1958: Fig. 14 a; Cranston & Judd 1989: Fig. 54; Wang & Zheng 1993: Figs. 8, 9)................................................. ..................................................................................... C. pseudomancus (Goetghebuer)
– Abdomen not banded .................................................................................................... 5
5 Base of anal point between anal crests without setae (Figs. 1, 2) ......... C. bisetus sp. n.
– Base of anal point between anal crests with setae......................................................... 6
6 Digitus bent, with pointed apex (Fig. 7; Wang & Zheng 1993: Figs. 6, 7)..................... ............................................................................................. C. frontalis Wang & Zheng
– Digitus elongate, with blunt apex (Fig. 14; Albu 1980: Fig. 188; Brundin 1947: Fig. 120; Edwards 1929: Fig. 15 g, Plate XIX, Fig. 16; Wang & Zheng 1993: Figs. 14, 15). ............................................................................................... C. vanderwulpi (Edwards)
7 Anal point slender; superior volsella not elongate (Fig. 9; Wang & Zheng 1993: Fig. 5) ............................................................................................ C. palmatus Wang & Zheng
– Anal point broad; superior volsella elongate................................................................. 8
8 Apex of digitus dilated .................................................................................................. 9
– Apex of digitus narrower............................................................................................. 10
9 Anal point with 2 spinules (Fig. 4; Wang & Zheng 1993: Figs. 5, 6) ............................ .............................................................................................. C. digitalis Wang & Zheng
– Anal point with more than 20 spinules and with about 10 ventrolateral setae (Figs. 5, 6) ................................................................................................................ C. dilatus sp. n.
10 Anal point with 2 basally joined spinules (Fig. 15; Wang & Zheng 1990: Fig. 1) ........ ....................................................................................... C. yunnanensis Wang & Zheng
– Anal point with more than 5 small, scattered spinules................................................ 11
11 Superior volsella with bent apex and 2 basimedial setae (Fig. 12; Wang & Zheng 1993: Fig. 2) ..................................................................................... C. parvus Wang & Zheng
– Apex of superior volsella not bent and with 1 basimedial seta (Figs. 10, 11)................. .................................................................................................... C. paratridorsum sp. n.
description: Published as part of Wang, Xinhua & Guo, Yuhong, 2004, A review of the genus Cladotanytarsus Kieffer from China, with the description of three new species (Diptera: Chironomidae: Tanytarsini), pp. 1-19 in Zootaxa 750 on page 17, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.158140