Cladopelma edwardsi Kruseman
Creators: name: Yan, Chuncai
name: Jin, Zhaohui
name: Wang, Xinhua
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2008
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Diptera
Chironomidae
Cladopelma
Cladopelma edwardsi

description: Cladopelma edwardsi (Kruseman)
(Figs 4–8)
Chironomus (Chironomus) virescens Meigen, 1818 sensu Edwards (1929: 391).
Tendipes (Parachironomus) edwardsi Kruseman, 1933: 194 (new name for virescens Meigen).
Tendipes (Cryptochironomus) edwardsi (Kruseman); Goetghebuer (1937–54: 44), Sublette (1960: 224).
Parachironomus edwardsi Kruseman; Brundin (1947: 55).
Harnischia (Harnischia) edwardsi (Kruseman); Townes (1945: 167), Beck and Beck (1959: 95), Beck and Beck (1969: 301).
Chironomus (Cryptochironomus) edwardsi (Kruseman); Sublette (1964a: 134).
Cryptocladopelma edwardsi (Kruseman); Brundin (1949: 741), Reiss (1968a: 120), Albu (1980: 119), Pinder (1978: 118).
Cladopelma edwardsi (Kruseman); Wang et al. (1991: 13), Yamamoto (1997: 586), Wang (2000: 643), Wang and Ji (2003: 57).
Harnischia virescens (Meigen); Wang et al. (1977: 230).
Harnischia viridula auct. nec C. viridulum (Linnaeus); Wang et al. (1977: 230), Hashimoto et al. (1981: 21), Sasa and Hasegawa (1983: 324), Sasa (1985: 35), Sasa and Kikuchi (1986: 20), Chaudhuri and Chattopadhyay (1990: 159), Dutta et al. (1996: 274).
Harnischia (Cryptocladopelma) viridula auctorum nec C. viridulum (Linnaeus); Sasa (1985: 35).
Cladopelma viridula auct. nec C. viridulum (Linnaeus); Sasa (1991: 83), Kikuchi and Sasa (1990: 297), Sasa and Suzuki (1991: 96).
Cladopelma indicum Bhattacharyay, Duta et Chaudhuri, 1985: 179. Syn. nov.
Cryptotendipes fujiquartus Sasa, 1985: 109; Sasa and Kawai (1987: 17), Sasa (1988: 56), Sasa (1989: 65, 74, 76), Sasa and Okazawa (1991: 106).
Cladopelma fujiquarta Sasa, 1993: 71; Sasa and Tanaka (2001: 45).
Cryptotendipes sibaabeus Sasa, Sumita et Suzuki, 1999: 184; Yan et al. (2005b: 19), Kobayashi and Endo (2008: 59).
Cryptotendipes inawaabeus Sasa, Kitami et Suzuki, 1999: 8. Syn. n.
Harnischia daitoheia Sasa et Suzuki, 2001a: 70. Syn. n.
Harnischia ginzandeeus Sasa et Suzuki, 2001b: 12. Syn. n.
Harnischia inadeeus Sasa, Kitami et Suzuki, 2001: 5. Syn. n.
Harnischia sibacedea Sasa, Sumita et Suzuki, 1999: 185. Syn. n.
Harnischia simantocedea Sasa, Suzuki et Sakai, 1998: 50. Syn. n.
Material examined: CHINA: Hebei Province, Zunhua County, Dongling Town, Longmenkou Reservoir, 3 males, 7.vii.2001, sweep net, Y. Guo; Zhejiang Province, Qingyuan County, Baishanzu, 3 males, 19.vii.1994, light trap, H. Wu; Anhui Province, Tongling City, Tianjinghu Park, 1 male, 31 vii.1994, sweep net, X. Wang; Fujian Province, Fuzhou City, Wulongjiang River, 1 male, 22.iv.1993, sweep net, X. Wang; Fujian Province, Fuzhou Agriculture College, 2 males, 22.iv.1993, light trap, X. Wang; Fujian Province, Shanghang County, Buyun, Shiyankeng, 1 male, 7.v.1993, light trap, X. Wang; Fujian Province, Jianning County, 1 male, 26.ix.2002, light trap, Z. Liu; Jiangxi Province, Yichun City, Yifeng County, Guanshan Nature Conservation Area, 280 m a.s.l., 3 males, 9.vi.2004, light trap, C. Yan; Jiangxi Province, Wuyishan National Natural Conservation Area, 900 m a.s.l., 1 male, 13.vi.2004, light trap, C. Yan; Shandong Province, Muping County, Kunyu Mountain, Dianhou, 2 males, 24–25.viii.1987, light trap, H. Li; Hubei Province, Wuhan University, 3 males, 29–30.x.2003, sweep net, B. Ji; Hubei Province, Shennongjia, Hongping, 1800 m a.s.l., 2 males, 18.vii.1997, light trap, Y. Du; Hubei Province, Yichang City, Gezhouba, 1 male, 3.xi.2003, sweep net, B. Ji; Guangxi Autonomous Region, Nanning City, 1 male, 29.v.1986, sweep net, X. Wang; Hainan Province, Diaoluo Town, 1 male, 20.v.1988, light trap, X. Wang; Yunnan Province, Eryuan County, Niujie Town, Futian Village, Meicihe River, 2262–2332 m a.s.l., 12 males, 23.v.1996, sweep net & light trap, B. Wang, L. Yang and C. Zhou; Yunnan Province, Lijiang City, Shigu Town, Chongjianghe River, 1850 m, 9 males, 25.v.1996, light trap & sweep net, B. Wang and C. Morse; Taiwan Province, 1 male, 2003, light trap, K. Ma. JAPAN: Holotype male of Cryptotendipes inawaabeus Sasa, Kitami et Suzuki (NSM no. 389: 14), Fukishima Prefecture, on the shore of Lake Inawashiro, 4.viii.1999, light trap, H. Suzuki. Holotype male of Cryptotendipes sibaabeus Sasa, Sumita et Suzuki (NSM no. 316: 100), Hokuriku District of Honshu, Ishikawa Prefecture, Kaga-shi, Shibayamagata Lake, 10.ix.1998, light trap, M. Sumita. Holotype male of Harnischia daitoheia Sasa et Suzuki (NSM no. 412: 02), Okinawa, Minamidaito Island, Hyotanike, 27.iii.2001, light trap, H. Suzuki. Holotype male of Harnischia ginzandeeus Sasa et Suzuki (NSM no. 403: 16), Hokkaido, Ginzan, 2.ix.2000, light trap, H. Suzuki. Holotype male of Harnischia inadeeus Sasa, Kitami et Suzuki (NSM no. 398: 66), on the shore of Lake Inawashiro, 6.vii.2000, light trap, H. Suzuki. Holotype male of Harnischia sibacedea Sasa, Sumita et Suzuki (NSM no. 317: 150), Ishikawa Prefecture, at the side of Shibayamagata Lake, 15.viii.1998, light trap, M. Sumita. Holotype male of Harnischia simantocedea Sasa, Suzuki et Sakai (NSM no. 358: 28), Tombo Koen, on the shore of Shimonto River, 25.iv.1998, sweep net, H. Suzuki. INDIA: Holotype male of Cladopelma indicum Bhattacharyay, Dutta et Chaudhuri (EB no. 138), Burdwan: Damodar River, 8.vii.1984, D.K. Guha.
Diagnostic characters: The species can be distinguished by the following combination of characters: The tergite IX produced posteriorly with lateral shoulders covered long setae; anal point with a mid ridge bearing short setae laterally and covered by microtrichia; and the superior volsella finger-like, covered by microtrichia and bearing 1–2 terminal setae.
Distribution: The species is widespread in Holarctic and Sino-Indian regions. It was collected by sweep net and light trap in China.
Remarks: We re-examined the holotype of Cladopelma indicum Bhattacharyay, Dutta et Chaudhuri and found some omissions and errors in original description (Bhattacharyay et al. 1985). Some characters should thus be added or corrected as: Wing length 1.18 mm; brachiolum with 2 setae; R4+5 with 2 setae apically; CR 1.21; mid leg with 12 sensilla chaetica; LR 1.88; anal point 85 Μm long; base of anal point shoulder-like without projection. Based on the shape of the hypopygium (figs 7–8) with the base of the anal point shoulder-like and without projection, the setae and microtrichia on the anal point, and the elongate, curved and pointed gonostylus, we consider the species to be a synonym of C. edwardsi.
Re-examination of the holotypes of Cryptotendipes inawaabeus Sasa, Kitami et Suzuki, Harnischia daitoheia Sasa et Suzuki, H. ginzandeeus Sasa et Suzuki, H. inadeeus Sasa, Kitami et Suzuki, H. sibacedea Sasa, Sumita et Suzuki, H. simantocedea Sasa, Suzuki et Sakai, showed that all are junior synonyms of C. edwardsi.
description: Published as part of Yan, Chuncai, Jin, Zhaohui & Wang, Xinhua, 2008, Cladopelma Kieffer from the Sino-Indian Region (Diptera: Chironomidae), pp. 44-56 in Zootaxa 1916 on pages 48-50, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.184615