Chionea
Creators: name: Zhang, Xiao
name: Wang, Junchao
name: Yang, Ding
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2012
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Diptera
Limoniidae
Chionea

description: Key to species (males) of Chionea from Eastpalaearctic
1 Antenna with 11 segments; sclerotized lobe of gonostylus truncated apically (Vanin 2008, 2010)............................................................................................ C. (C.) kanenoi Sasakawa, 1986 (Japan)
- Antenna with less than 11 segments; sclerotized lobe of gonostylus bidentate...................................... 2
2 Tibiae enlarged and bulgy rounded at tarsal articulations...................................................... 3
- Tibiae not bulgy rounded at tarsal articulation............................................................... 4
3 Posterior margin of tergite 9 concave medially (Fig. 27); paramere apically acute and curved downward (Figs. 26, 30)............................................................................... C. (C.) sphaerae sp. nov. (China)
- Posterior margin of tergite 9 linear; paramere apically rounded and internally folded (Vanin 2008)....................................................................................... C. (C.) mirabilis Vanin, 2008 (South Korea)
4 Aedeagus large, projecting beyond paramere............................................................... 5
- Aedeagus small, not projecting beyond paramere............................................................ 8
5 Antenna with 9–10 segments (Alexander 1932)...................... C. (C.) nipponica Alexander, 1932 (Russia; Japan)
- Antenna with 5–7 segments............................................................. C. (C.) crassipes ... 6
6 Claspette of aedeagal complex with one long hair and few fine, short hairs (Narchuk 1998)................................................................................... C. (C.) crassipes magadanensis Narchuk, 1998 (Russia)
- Claspette of aedeagal complex only with few fine, short hairs,without long hair.................................. 7
7 Inner tooth of sclerotized lobe of gonostylus shorter than outer tooth (Fig. 9); paramere with tip wide and blunt (Fig. 7, 11).......................... C. (C.) crassipes gracilistyla Alexander, 1936 (Russia; North Korea; South Korea; Japan; China)
- Inner tooth of sclerotized lobe of gonostylus as long as outer tooth; paramere with tip strongly narrowed (Narchuk 1998)......................................... C. (C.) crassipes crassipes Boheman, 1846 (Finland; Norway; Sweden; Russia)
8 Inner tooth of sclerotized lobe of gonostylus shorter than outer tooth (Fig. 17); paramere and claspette with tips rounded; aedeagus with two goblet-shaped lobes at base (Figs. 15, 19)................. C. (C.) pusilla Savchenko (Russia; China)
- Inner tooth of sclerotized lobe of gonostylus as long as outer tooth (Fig. 36); paramere and claspette with tips relatively acute; aedeagus with a rounded lobe covering it (Figs. 34, 38)......................... C. (C.) tianhuashana sp. nov. (China)
description: Published as part of Zhang, Xiao, Wang, Junchao & Yang, Ding, 2012, Chionea Dalman newly recorded from China with descriptions of two new species (Diptera, Limoniidae), pp. 1-14 in Zootaxa 3316 on page 3, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.214207