- Gynocladius
Taxobox
name = "Gynocladius"
regnum =Animal ia
phylum =Arthropod a
classis =Insect a
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 subfamilyOrthocladiinae (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 theMuseu de Zoologia da Universidade de São Paulo (MZUSP), São Paulo, Brazil, paratypes are housed in São Paulo and Bergen, NorwayReferences
*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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