Litocladius 5464459 225708655 2008-07-15T00:40:53Z Mark-mitchell-aldershot 3401544 {{Taxobox | name = ''Litocladius'' | regnum = [[Animal]]ia | phylum = [[Arthropod]]a | subphylum = [[Hexapoda]] | classis = [[Insect]]a | subclassis = [[Pterygota]] | infraclassis = [[Neoptera]] | superordo = [[Endopterygota]]| | ordo = [[Fly|Diptera]] | subordo = [[Nematocera]] | infraordo = [[Culicomorpha]] | superfamilia = [[Chironomoidea]] | familia = [[Chironomidae]] | genus = '''''Litocladius''''' | genus_authority = [[Trond Andersen (entomologist)|Andersen]], [[Humberto Fonseca Mendes|Mendes]] & [[Ole Anton Sæther|Sæther]] [[2004]] }} '''''Litocladius''''' is a genus of [[Chironomidae|chironomid]] [[fly|flies]] that belongs to the subfamily [[Orthocladiinae]] and is composed of a single species, ''Litocladius mateusi'' Mendes, Andersen & Sæther (2004) described from [[Brazil]]. Male, female, and [[pupa]] are described. This species is so far known only from the [[Type locality (biology)|type locality]] and [[type material]]. The types of the only known species are housed in São Paulo, Brazil and Bergen, Norway. The [[etymology]] of the genus is from the Greek "litos", meaning plain, simple, referring to the reduced pupa and the shape of the [[inferior volsella]]; "cladius" stands as a common ending among [[orthoclads]]. The only pupa recorded was found living among mosses on tree trunks, no data on the [[larvae]] are available so far. ==References== *Mendes, H.F., Andersen, T. & Sæther, O.A. (2004) A review of ''Antillocladius'' Sæther, 1981; ''Compterosmittia'' Sæther, 1981 and ''Litocladius'' new genus (Chironomidae, Orthocladiinae). Zootaxa 594, 1–82. {{fly-stub}} [[Category:Chironomidae]] [[Category:Flies]]