Gynocladius

Gynocladius

Taxobox
name = "Gynocladius"
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Arthropoda
classis = Insecta
subclassis = Pterygota
infraclassis = Neoptera
superordo = Endopterygota
ordo = Diptera
subordo = Nematocera
infraordo = Culicomorpha
superfamilia = Chironomoidea
familia = Chironomidae
subfamilia = Orthocladiinae
genus = "Gynocladius"
genus_authority = Mendes, Sæther & Andrade-Morraye, 2005

"Gynocladius" is a parthenogenetic genus in the subfamily Orthocladiinae (Chironomidae). A single species is recorded from Southeast Brazil, "Gynocladius scalpellosus", described by Mendes, Sæther and Andrade-Morraye in 2005. The name stands for the presence of only females (gyneo, gyneco; woman, female in Greek).

All life stages are known, but the sole record of this species is the type material. The holotype is housed in the Museu de Zoologia da Universidade de São Paulo (MZUSP), São Paulo, Brazil, paratypes are housed in São Paulo and Bergen, Norway

References

*Mendes, H.F.; Sæther, O.A. & Andrade-Morraye, M. 2005. "Gynocladius scalpellosus" n. gen., n. sp. from Brazil (Diptera: Chironomidae: Orthocladiinae). Zootaxa 979: 1-12.


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