Boreoheptagyia Brundin 1966
Creators: name: Makarchenko, Eugenyi A.
name: Endo, Kazuo
name: Wu, Jingyang
name: Wang, Xinhua
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2008
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Diptera
Chironomidae
Boreoheptagyia

description: Key to the males of Boreoheptagyia Brundin from East Asia and bordering territories   
1. Antenna with 13 flagellomeres....................................................................................................................2  
- Antenna with 5–8 flagellomeres..................................................................................................................8  
 2. Preepisternum and median anepisternum II with setae (Fig. 27). Legs brown or dark brown, without white spots. With field of small spinules distal of transverse sternapodeme. (Figs 28, 32)................................... ........................................................................................................... B. sasai Makarchenko et Endo, sp. n.   
- Preepisternum and median anepisternum II without setae. Femur and tibia with white spots or rings. Field of small spinules distal of transverse sternapodeme absent.........................................................................3  
 3. Alula with 3–4 setae (Fig. 3). Gonostylus short and inflated, with very short, narrow apical part (Figs 1– 2). .................................................................................... B. alulasetosa Makarchenko, Wu et Wang, sp. n.   
- Alula without setae. Shape of gonostylus different.................................................................................... 4  
4. Dorsocentrals in anterior part of scutum only.............................................................................................5  
- Dorsocentrals in anterior and posterior parts of scutum............................................................................. 6  
 5. Prealars 12. Aedeagal lobe with some distal teeth (Fig. 8). B. ambigua Makarchenko, Wu et Wang, sp. n.   
 - Prealars 1–4. Aedeagal lobe without teeth (Fig. 12).. B. xinglongiensis Makarchenko, Wu et Wang, sp. n.   
 6. AR 0.21–0.22. Dorsocentrals 11.............................................................................. B. rotunda Serra-Tosio   
- AR 0.11–0.16. Dorsocentrals 16–23............................................................................................................7  
 7. Prealars 17–28. .................................................................................................... B. brevitarsis (Tokunaga)   
 - Prealars 10. ................................................................................................. B. similis (Chaudhuri et Ghosh)   
 8. Antenna with 5 flagellomeres. Basal lobe of gonocoxite large and rounded (Fig. 21). AR 0.64............................................................................................................................... B. kurobebrevis (Sasa et Okazawa)   
- Antenna with 6 or 8 flagellomeres. Basal lobe of gonocoxite differently shape. AR 0.44–0.50...............9  
9. Antenna with 6 flagellomeres. Gonostylus with megaseta........................................................................10  
 - Antenna with 8 flagellomeres (Fig. 22). Gonostylus without megaseta (Fig. 25)......................................... .................................................................................................. B. nepalensis Makarchenko et Endo, sp. n.   
 10. Tergite IX with small distinct anal point. Basal lobe of gonocoxite small and covered with setae. Gonostylus attached to gonocoxite two-third from apex, with 2 megasetae (Fig. 39). ........ B. unica Makarchenko   
 - Tergite IX without anal point. Basal lobe of gonocoxite nose-like. Gonostylus attached near apex of gonocoxite, with 1 megaseta (Figs 35–36)..................................................... B. tibetica Makarchenko et Wang
description: Published as part of Makarchenko, Eugenyi A., Endo, Kazuo, Wu, Jingyang & Wang, Xinhua, 2008, A review of Boreoheptagyia Brundin, 1966 (Chironomidae: Diamesinae) from East Asia and bordering territories, with the description of five new species, pp. 1-17 in Zootaxa 1817 (1) on page 2, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.1817.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5125134