Endotribelos
Creators: name: Trivinho-Strixino, Susana
name: Pepinelli, Mateus
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2015
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Diptera
Chironomidae
Endotribelos

description: Key to male imagines of Endotribelos
1. Wings with several setae on M........................................................................... 2
- Wing without setae on M............................................................................... 3
2. Mid tibiae with 2 spurs; base of superior volsella setose..................................... E. redimiculum Qi et al.
- Mid tibiae with 1 spur; base of superior volsella bare....................................... E. hesperium (Sublette)
3. Dark brown bands present on abdominal segments III, IV, VI and VII............ E. callophylli Roque & Trivinho-Strixino
- Abdominal segments not as above........................................................................4
4. Base of superior volsella setose........................................................................... 5
- Base of superior volsella bare............................................................................ 6
5. Base of superior volsella large, with 6 basal setae............................. E. talaumae Roque & Trivinho-Strixino
- Base of superior volsella short, with 3 basal setae............................................... E. jaragua sp. n.
6. Thorax without dark brown stripe on scutum................................................................7
- Thorax scutum with some dark brown spot................................................................. 8
7. Anal point longer than inferior volsella......................................................... E. jiboia sp. n.
- Anal point shorter than inferior volsella............................................... E. albatum Sublette & Sasa
8. Thorax with brown mesonotal stripes..................................................................... 9
- Thorax not as above.................................................................................. 10
9. Prescutal area of thorax with short brown triangular spot; wing> 2.00 mm; mid tibiae with 2 spurs......... E. bicolor sp. n.
- Prescutal area not as above; wing <2.00 mm; mid tibiae with 1 spur................................ E. sublettei sp. n.
10. Anal point more or less parallel-sided..................................................................... 11
- Anal point apically swollen............................................................................. 12
11. Superior volsella with 3 basal setae; fore tibiae without spine at apex.................. E. ficus Roque & Trivinho-Strixino
- Superior volsella with 4 basal setae; fore tibiae with one short spine at apex.......................... E. fulvidus sp. n.
12. Mid tibiae with 2 spurs........................................................... E. grodhausi Sublette & Sasa
- Mid tibiae with 1 spur.................................................................................13
13. Fore tibia with one short spine at apex..................................................... E. semibruneus sp. n.
- Fore tibia without spine at apex............................................ E. euterpe Roque & Trivinho-Strixino
description: Published as part of Trivinho-Strixino, Susana & Pepinelli, Mateus, 2015, A systematic study on Endotribelos Grodhaus (Diptera: Chironomidae) from Brazil including DNA barcoding to link males and females, pp. 1-41 in Zootaxa 3936 (1) on pages 2-3, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3936.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/288149