Genus of flies
Polypedilum
Polypedilum nubens
Scientific classification
Domain:
Eukaryota
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Arthropoda
Class:
Insecta
Order:
Diptera
Family:
Chironomidae
Subfamily:
Chironominae
Tribe:
Chironomini
Genus:
Polypedilum Kieffer , 1912
Subgenera
Synonyms
Asheum Sublette & Sublette, 1983 Cerobregma Sæther & Sundal, 1999 Kribiocharis Kieffer , 1921Kribionympha Kieffer , 1921Kribiophilus Kieffer , 1921Kribiotima Kieffer , 1921Pedionomus Sublette, 1964 Pentapedilum Kieffer , 1913Pentapelma Kieffer , 1921Propedilum Lenz, 1937 Rosenia Kieffer , 1921Tripedilum Kieffer , 1921Tripodura Townes, 1945 Uresipedilum Sasa & Kikuchi, 1995
Polypedilum Chironominae of the bloodworm family Chironomidae . This is probably the most species-rich of all chironomid genera. Larvae of Polypedilum may also be among the most abundant invertebrates in eutrophic ponds, reaching densities of up to 1200 larvae per square meter.[ 2]
Species
P. botiense Oyewo & Sæther, 2008 [ 3] P. scirpicola (Kieffer , 1921) P. botosaneanui Oyewo & Sæther, 2008 [ 3] P. camposense Oyewo & Sæther, 2008 [ 3] P. exsectum (Kieffer , 1916) P. intuber Oyewo & Sæther, 2008 [ 3] P. nubens (Edwards , 1929) P. reei Oyewo & Sæther, 2008 [ 3] P. sordens (van der Wulp, 1874) P. tissamaharense Oyewo & Sæther, 2008 [ 3] P. tritum (Walker , 1856) P. wittei (Freeman, 1955) P. acutum Kieffer , 1915P. albicorne (Meigen , 1838) P. albosignatum Kieffer , 1925P. amoenum Goetghebuer, 1930 P. arundineti (Goetghebuer, 1921) P. barboyoni Serra-Tosio, 1981 P. dudichi Berczik, 1957 P. fallax (Johannsen, 1905) P. intermedium Albu & Botnariuc, 1966 P. laetum (Meigen , 1818) P. lene (Becker , 1908) P. nubeculosum (Meigen , 1804) P. nubifer (Skuse, 1889) P. octopunctatum (Thunberg, 1784) P. pedestre (Meigen , 1830) P. vanderplanki Hinton, 1951 P. marcondesi Pinho & Mendes, 2010 [ 1] P. excelsius Townes sensu Grodhaus & Rotramel, 1980 P. simantokeleum Sasa, Suzuki & Sakai, 1998 P. bullum Zhang & Wang, 2004 possibly Polypedilum longinervis (Kieffer, 1922)
possibly Polypedilum (Uresipedilum) excelsius Townes, 1945 P. acifer Townes, 1945 P. aegyptium Kieffer , 1925P. akani Bjørlo, 2001 [ 4] P. amplificatus Bjørlo, 2001 [ 4] P. amputatum Bjørlo, 2001 [ 4] P. apfelbecki (Strobl , 1900) P. bicrenatum Kieffer , 1921P. chelum Vårdal, 2001 [ 4] P. dagombae Bjørlo, 2001 [ 4] P. elongatum Albu, 1980 P. ewei Bjørlo, 2001 [ 4] P. malickianum Cranston, 1989 P. ogoouense Bjørlo, 2001 [ 4] P. patulum Bjørlo, 2001 [ 4] P. pulchrum Albu, 1980 P. pullum (Zetterstedt , 1838) P. quadriguttatum Kieffer , 1921P. scalaenum (Schrank , 1803) P. spinalveum Vårdal, 2001 [ 4] P. tetracrenatum Hirvenoja, 1962
See also
References
^ a b c Sæther, Ole A.; Andersen, Trond; Pinho, Luiz C.; Mendes, Humberto F. (2010). "The problems with Polypedilum Kieffer (Diptera: Chironomidae), with the description of Probolum subgen. n." (PDF) . Zootaxa 2497 : 1– 36. doi :10.11646/zootaxa.2497.1.1 . ^ Int Panis, L; Bervoets L; Verheyen RF (1995). "The spatial distribution of Caenis horaria (L., 1758) (Caenidae, Ephemeroptera) in a pond in Niel (Belgium)" . Bull. Ann. Soc. R. Ent. Belg . 131 : 47– 51. ^ a b c d e f Emmanuel Adeoye Oyewo & Ole A. Sæther (2008). Revision of Polypedilum (Pentapedilum) Kieffer and Ainuyusurika Sasa et Shirasaki (Diptera: Chironomidae) . Vol. 1953. New Zealand: Magnolia Press. pp. 145 pp. ISBN 978-1-86977-300-7 ^ a b c d e f g h i Vårdal, H., Bjørlo, A. & Sæther, O. A. (2002). "Afrotropical Polypedilum subgenus Tripodura , with a review of the subgenus (Diptera: Chironomidae)". Zoologica Scripta . 31 (4). Wiley InterScience: 331– 402. doi :10.1046/j.1463-6409.2002.00096.x . S2CID 84856055 . {{cite journal }}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link )^ Lin, Xiaolong; Qi, Xin; Zhang, Ruilei; Wang, Xinhua (2013). "A new species of Polypedilum (Uresipedilum) Oyewo & Sæther, 1998 from Zhejiang Province of Oriental China (Diptera, Chironomidae)" . ZooKeys 43– 49. doi :10.3897/zookeys.320.5147 PMC 3744150 PMID 23950682 .
