New Zealand Journal of Zoology abstracts

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Description of Naonella n. gen. (Diptera: Chironomidae: Orthocladiinae)

I. K. G. BOOTHROYD

Department of Biological Sciences
University of Waikato
Private Bag 3105
Hamilton, New Zealand*
*Present address: Hawke's Bay Regional Council, Private Bag 6006, Napier, New Zealand

Abstract  Naonella n. gen. is described for the first time from the North Island, New Zealand. Diagnoses of males, pupae, and larvae are presented. Naonella can be distinguished by the combination of bare eyes, straight Cu1, well-developed pulvilli, and the absence of acrostichals and anal point in the adult male; the absence of a thoracic horn, and the presence of caudal spines and weak anterior shagreen on tergites II-VII in the pupa; and by a bifid SI, bifid premandible, and the presence of ventromental plates with beard in the larva. Naonella is characterised by monotypy and designated by the type species: Naonella forsythi.

Keywords Diptera; Insecta; Chironomidae; taxonomy; biosystematics

New Zealand Journal of Zoology, 1994, Vol. 21: 309-315

0301-4223/2103-0309 $2.50/0   (c) The Royal Society of New Zealand 1994

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