Beckidia

Beckidia
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Clade: Pancrustacea
Class: Insecta
Order: Diptera
Family: Chironomidae
Subfamily: Chironominae
Tribe: Chironomini
Genus: Beckidia
Kieffer, 1913
Type species
Harnischia (Cladopelma) tethys
Townes, 1945
Synonyms[1]
  • Beckiella Saether, 1977

Beckidia is a genus of non-biting midges in the family Chironomidae. There are about seven described species in Beckidia.[1][2]

Species

These seven species belong to the genus Beckidia:[1][3][4][5]

  • Beckidia binum (Yan, Jin & Wang, 2008)
  • Beckidia biraensis Zorina, 2006
  • Beckidia connexa Zorina, 2006
  • Beckidia hirsti (Freeman, 1957)
  • Beckidia inflata Mukherjee & Hazra, 2023
  • Beckidia tethys (Townes, 1945)
  • Beckidia zabolotzskyi (Goetghebuer, 1938)

References

  1. 1 2 3 "Catalogue of Life, Beckidia Saether, 1979". Retrieved 2026-06-25.
  2. ↑ Evenhuis, N.L.; Pape, T. (2026). "Systema Dipterorum". doi:10.48580/d3bz. Retrieved 2026-06-20.
  3. ↑ Townes, H. K. (1945). "The nearctic species of Tendipedini (Diptera, Tendipedidae (= Chironomidae))". American Midland Naturalist. 34 (1): 1–206. doi:10.2307/2421112. JSTOR 2421112.
  4. ↑ Zorina, Oksana V. (2006). "New species and records of Beckidia Sæther (Diptera: Chironomidae) from the Russian Far East" (PDF). Zootaxa. 1151. New Zealand: Magnolia Press: 47–53. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.1151.1.4. ISSN 1175-5334. Retrieved 2009-05-22.
  5. ↑ "The genus Beckidia in Namibia". Namibia: Namibian Biodiversity Database. Retrieved 2020-06-03.


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