Thienemanniella
Creators: name: Wiedenbrug, Sofia
name: Lamas, Carlos E.
name: Trivinho-Strixino, Susana
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2013
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Diptera
Chironomidae
Thienemanniella

description: Key to known pupae of Thienemanniella of the neotropical region
T. spreta sensu Sublette & Sasa is not included
1 Fringe of anal lobe with fewer than 20 short setae; tergal conjunctives II/III–V/VI with strong hooklets; segments IV–VIII with 3 short lateral setae per side, the L2 taeniate and longer than the other two.................... T. medialis Sublette & Sasa
- Fringe of anal lobe with more than 20 setae; tergal conjunctives II/III–V/VI with hooklets small or absent; segments IV–VIII with 4 taeniate lateral setae.............................................................................. 2
2 Tergites II–VIII each with one posterior row of strong and wide spines..................... T. manihuales sp. n. (Chile)
- Tergites II–VIII not as above............................................................................. 3
3 Tergal conjunctives VII/VIII without hooklets........................... T. similis (Malloch) sensu Hestenes & Saether
- Tergal conjunctives VII/VIII with small hooklets or spinules.................................................. 4
4 Tergites IV and V with homogeneous fine shagreen; sternite II with short points; male genital sac posteriorly rounded............................................................................................... T. biobio sp. n.
- Tergites IV and V with shagreen points increasing in size posteriorly; sternite II with shagreen of elongate spinules; male gen- ital sac with posterior inner margin oblique................................................... T. spreta group... 5
5 Tergites VII and VIII with posterior shagreen spinules wider than long; sternites VI–VII with one or two posterior rows of points larger than those preceding them................................................. T. sanctivincenta Saether
- Tergites VII and VIII with posterior shagreen spinules usually longer than wide; sternites VI–VII with homogeneous shagreen.................................................................................................... 6
6 Sternite I bare............................................................................... T. liae Paggi
- Sternite I with very fine shagreen......................................................................... 7
7 Sternite VIII of male pupae with posterior spines distinctly wider than long; Dc1 distinctly displaced to ventral................................................................................................ T. sancticaroli sp. n.
- Sternite VIII of male with posterior spines as long as wide; Dc setae usually in two pairs or slightly displaced to ventral............................................................................................ T. ubatuba sp. n.
description: Published as part of Wiedenbrug, Sofia, Lamas, Carlos E. & Trivinho-Strixino, Susana, 2013, A review of Neotropical species in Thienemanniella Kieffer (Diptera, Chironomidae), pp. 215-237 in Zootaxa 3670 (2) on page 235, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3670.2.7, http://zenodo.org/record/215940