Rheocricotopus Brundin
Creators: name: Fu, Yue
name: Huang, Jingli
name: Liu, Wenbin
name: Fang, Xiangliang
name: Wang, Xinhua
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2016
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Diptera
Chironomidae
Rheocricotopus

description: Key to of 13 males of Rheocricotopus Brundin from the Sino–Indian Region
1. Tergite IX reduced, the posterior margin of tergite IX almost coincide with the base of anal point...................... 2
- Tergite IX developed, the posterior margin of tergite IX exceed the apex of anal point............................... 6
2. Superior volsella triangular or rounded or absent, relatively small............................................... 3
– Superior volsella longitypical or tooth–like, relatively large.................................................... 5
3. Inferior volsella triangular and hooked........................................... R. (P.) isigadeeus Sasa & Suzuki
- Inferior volsella rounded................................................................................ 4
4. Anal point with 2 lateral setae on each side, inferior volsella double–layered.......................................................................................................................... R. (P.) kurocedeus Sasa
- Anal point with without lateral setae on each side, inferior volsella single–layered........................................................................................................ R. (P.) tobatervicesimus Kikuchi & Sasa
5. Superior volsella longitypical, inferior volsella pointed triangular........................... R. (R.) tamahumeralis Sasa
- Superior volsella tooth–like, inferior volsella rounded.................................... R. (R.) tedorisecundus Sasa
6. Gonostylus with apical pointed triangular crista dorsalis....................................................... 7
- Gonostylus with preapical or middle rounded triangular crista dorsalis or without................................... 8
7. Anal point with 2 lateral setae on each side, inferior volsella rounded, double–layered.... R. (P.) hidakadeeus Sasa & Suzuki
- Anal point with with 5 lateral setae on each side, inferior volsella slightly hooked, single–layered................................................................................................ R. (P.) tokarakeleus Sasa & Suzuki
8. Gonostylus without crista dorsalis.......................................... R. (R.) togapeniculus Sasa & Okazawa
- Gonostylus with crista dorsalis........................................................................... 9
9. Superior volsella with almost right–angle corner............................................................ 10
- Superior volsella with rounded corner or tooth–like or absent.................................................. 11
10. Transverse sternapodeme without oral projections, inferior vosella single–layered.. R. (R.) inaxeyeus Sasa, Kitami & Suzuki
- Transverse sternapodeme with oral projections, inferior vosella double–layered... R. (R.) inaquereus Sasa, Kitami & Suzuki
11. Superior volsella tooth–shaped......................................................... R. (R.) tatequintus Sasa
- Superior volsella rounded or absent...................................................................... 12
12. Inferior volsella foot–shaped, gonostylus with preapical crista dorsalis................... R. (R.) shoufukusecundus Sasa
- Inferior volsella rounded with a small lobe, gonostylus with middle crista dorsalis....... R. (R.) yakulemeus Sasa & Suzuki
description: Published as part of Fu, Yue, Huang, Jingli, Liu, Wenbin, Fang, Xiangliang & Wang, Xinhua, 2016, Redescription of 13 holotypes of Rheocricotopus Brundin, 1956 (Diptera: Chironomidae) from the Sino – Indian Region, pp. 261-276 in Zootaxa 4114 (3) on page 275, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4114.3.3, http://zenodo.org/record/255136