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Buchonomyia burmanica sp.n. and Buchonomyiinae, a New Subfamily among the Chironomidae (Diptera)
Author(s) -
BRUNDIN LARS,
SÆTHER OLE A.
Publication year - 1978
Publication title -
zoologica scripta
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.204
H-Index - 64
eISSN - 1463-6409
pISSN - 0300-3256
DOI - 10.1111/j.1463-6409.1978.tb00610.x
Subject(s) - imago , subfamily , biology , chironomidae , synapomorphy , zoology , monophyly , larva , ecology , clade , phylogenetics , genetics , gene
Male and female imagines of Buchonomyia burmanica sp.n. are described. While the male imago nearly exclusively shows plesiomorphous features, the female imago possesses three important underlying synapomorphies as unique inside‐parallelisms: the capacities for divisions of gonapophysis VIII and of tergite IX and for the development of an apodeme lobe. These and supporting evidence lead to the conclusion that Buchonomyia Fittkau deserves a new subfamily, the Buchonomyiinae, which forms the sister‐group of the monophyletic unit Chironominae‐t‐Orthocladiinae+Prodiamesinae+Diamesinae.