Cladopelma

Cladopelma
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Clade: Pancrustacea
Class: Insecta
Order: Diptera
Family: Chironomidae
Subfamily: Chironominae
Tribe: Chironomini
Genus: Cladopelma
Kieffer, 1921
Subgenera
  • Harnischia Kieffer, 1921
  • Microchironomus Kieffer, 1918
Synonyms[1]
  • Cryptocladopelma Lenz, 1941
  • Cryptocladopelma Townes, 1945

Cladopelma is a genus of non-biting midges in the subfamily Chironominae and tribe Chironomini of the bloodworm family Chironomidae. Species are distributed world-wide (Cranston et al. 1989, Yan et al. 2008), with species represented in the Palaearctic, Nearctic, Neotropical, Afrotropical, Sino-Indian, and Austroasian regions.[2][3][4][1]

Species

These 25 species belong to the genus Cladopelma:[1]

  • Cladopelma acutum Yamamoto & Yamamoto, 2022
  • Cladopelma amachaerum (Townes, 1945)
  • Cladopelma armeniacum (Chernovsky, 1949)
  • Cladopelma bicarinatum (Brundin, 1947)
  • Cladopelma collator (Townes, 1945)
  • Cladopelma costum Yan, Jin & Wang, 2008
  • Cladopelma curtivalva (Kieffer, 1917)
  • Cladopelma daktylos (Walley, 1934)
  • Cladopelma edwardsi (Kruseman, 1933)
  • Cladopelma forcipes (Rempel, 1939)
  • Cladopelma forcipis (Rempel, 1939)
  • Cladopelma fridmanae (Chernovsky, 1949)
  • Cladopelma galeator (Townes, 1945)
  • Cladopelma goetghebueri Spies & Saether, 2004
  • Cladopelma inawabeceus (Sasa, Kitami & Suzuki, 2000)
  • Cladopelma inflexum (Freeman, 1957)
  • Cladopelma kamalanagari Maheshwari & Agarwal, 1993
  • Cladopelma krusemani (Goetghebuer, 1935)
  • Cladopelma laccophila (Kieffer, 1922)
  • Cladopelma lacustre (Lenz, 1960)
  • Cladopelma overmeirense (Goetghebuer, 1932)
  • Cladopelma spectabile (Townes, 1945)
  • Cladopelma subnigrum (Brundin, 1947)
  • Cladopelma virescens (Meigen, 1818)
  • Cladopelma viridulum (Linnaeus, 1767)

References

  1. 1 2 3 "Catalogue of Life, Cladopelma Kieffer, 1921". Retrieved 2026-06-25.
  2. ↑ Cranston P.S., M.E. Dillon, L.C.V. Pinder and F. Reiss. 1989. The adult males of Chironominae (Diptera: Chironomidae) of the Holarctic region - keys and diagnoses, p. 353-502 in Wiederholm, T. (Ed.), Chironomidae of the Holarctic region. Keys and diagnoses. Part 3 Adult males. Entomologica Scandinavica (suppl.) 34: 1–532.
  3. ↑ Yan C., Z. Jin, and X. Wang. 2008. Cladopelma Kieffer from the Sino-Indian Region (Diptera: Chironomidae). Zootaxa 1916: 44–56.
  4. ↑ Evenhuis, N.L.; Pape, T. (2026). "Systema Dipterorum". doi:10.48580/d3bz. Retrieved 2026-06-20.