Oriental Chironomus: C. mongolbeceus

Chironomus mongolbeceus Sasa & Suzuki 1997 as Camptochironomus.

Adult

Male: Known from a single specimen.
Wing length 4.46 mm., width 0.28; VR 1.06 (or 0.94). AR 4.28. LR 1.28; BR 1.4; mLR 0.50; hLR0.59. Pulvilli large and brush-like.

Frontal tubercles and male hypopygium of Chironomus mongolbeceus. (Sasa & Suzuki, 1997)

Posterior lobe of TIX is as long as the anal point, apparently no central patch of setae. Anal point flanked by a V-shaped lobe reaching just to the end of the anal point; Gonostylus and Inferior Volsella similar to those of Camptochironomus, but the Superior Volsella is quite different, constricted at the base then expanded to a broad trianular lobe bearing numerous long setae and microtrichia.

Female: Not known

Pupa, Larva and Cytology: Not known

Found: Mongolia - (Type locality) Bogd.

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