Glyptotendipes

Glyptotendipes
Glyptotendipes paripes, Florida
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Clade: Pancrustacea
Class: Insecta
Order: Diptera
Family: Chironomidae
Subfamily: Chironominae
Tribe: Chironomini
Genus: Glyptotendipes
Kieffer, 1913
Subgenera
  • Glyptotendipes Kieffer, 1913
  • Phytotendipes Goetghebuer, 1937
Synonyms[1]
  • Caulochironomus Heyn, 1993
  • Heynotendipes Spies & Sæther, 2004
  • Phytotendipes Goetghebuer, 1937
  • Trichotendipes Heyn, 1993

Glyptotendipes is a genus of non-biting midges in the family Chironomidae. There are more than 60 described species in Glyptotendipes.[1][2]

Glyptotendipes testaceus
Glyptotendipes barbipes, Texas
Glyptotendipes pallens, North Wales
Glyptotendipes meridionalis, Oklahoma

Species

These 64 species belong to the genus Glyptotendipes:[1][3][4][5]

  • Glyptotendipes aequalis (Kieffer, 1922)
  • Glyptotendipes amplus Townes, 1945
  • Glyptotendipes annulaimanus (Goetghebuer, 1921)
  • Glyptotendipes anomalus (Kieffer, 1924)
  • Glyptotendipes barbipes (Staeger, 1839)
  • Glyptotendipes bicoloratus Goetghebuer, 1939
  • Glyptotendipes biwasecundus Sasa & Kawai, 1987
  • Glyptotendipes brevilobus (Kieffer, 1916)
  • Glyptotendipes candidus (Kieffer, 1913)
  • Glyptotendipes caulicola (Kieffer, 1913)
  • Glyptotendipes corticicola (Kieffer, 1913)
  • Glyptotendipes dendrophila Zvereva, 1950
  • Glyptotendipes discolor Kieffer, 1926
  • Glyptotendipes dreisbachi Townes, 1945
  • Glyptotendipes flavimanus (Meigen, 1830)
  • Glyptotendipes fodiens (Kieffer, 1924)
  • Glyptotendipes foliicola Kieffer, 1918
  • Glyptotendipes formosae Kieffer, 1922
  • Glyptotendipes fujisecundus (Sasa, 1985)
  • Glyptotendipes fulvofasciatus Kieffer, 1921
  • Glyptotendipes fumilatus Majumdar & Mazumdar, 2011
  • Glyptotendipes glaucus (Meigen, 1818)
  • Glyptotendipes gripekoveni (Kieffer, 1913)
  • Glyptotendipes harpagatus Pal & Hazra, 2018
  • Glyptotendipes hebetare Konar & Majumdar, 2020
  • Glyptotendipes imbecilis (Walker, 1856)
  • Glyptotendipes imicola (Kieffer, 1926)
  • Glyptotendipes inflatum Konar & Majumdar, 2020
  • Glyptotendipes ingenius Majumdar & Mazumdar, 2011
  • Glyptotendipes latifrons (Kieffer, 1924)
  • Glyptotendipes leucoceras (Kieffer, 1913)
  • Glyptotendipes lipinae Olivari, 1955
  • Glyptotendipes lobiferus (Say, 1823)
  • Glyptotendipes mancunianus (Edwards, 1929)
  • Glyptotendipes melanosema (Kieffer, 1911)
  • Glyptotendipes melanostolus (Kieffer, 1911)
  • Glyptotendipes meridionalis Dendy & Sublette, 1959
  • Glyptotendipes nishidai Yamamoto, 1995
  • Glyptotendipes ospeli Contreras-Lichtenberg & Kiknadze, 2000
  • Glyptotendipes pallen Meigen, 1804
  • Glyptotendipes pallens (Meigen, 1804)
  • Glyptotendipes paratestaceus Saether, 2011
  • Glyptotendipes paripes (Edwards, 1929)
  • Glyptotendipes paulisensus Saether, 2011
  • Glyptotendipes philippinarum (Kieffer, 1921)
  • Glyptotendipes pilosus Dutta & Chaudhuri, 1995
  • Glyptotendipes polytomus
  • Glyptotendipes salinus Mikhailova, 1987
  • Glyptotendipes scirpi (Edwards, 1929)
  • Glyptotendipes seminole Townes, 1945
  • Glyptotendipes senilis (Johannsen, 1937)
  • Glyptotendipes sensilis Saether, 2011
  • Glyptotendipes severini (Goetghebuer, 1923)
  • Glyptotendipes sigillatus Kieffer, 1913
  • Glyptotendipes signatus (Kieffer, 1909)
  • Glyptotendipes sparganii (Kieffer, 1908)
  • Glyptotendipes testaceus Townes, 1945
  • Glyptotendipes tokunagai Sasa, 1979
  • Glyptotendipes unacus Townes, 1945
  • Glyptotendipes uralicus Martynova, 1969
  • Glyptotendipes validens Majumdar & Mazumdar, 2011
  • Glyptotendipes varipes (Goetghebuer, 1927)
  • Glyptotendipes verrucosus (Kieffer, 1911)
  • Glyptotendipes viridis (Macquart, 1834)
  • Glyptotendipes zavrelianus (Kieffer, 1922)

References

  1. 1 2 3 "Catalogue of Life, Glyptotendipes Kieffer, 1913". Retrieved 2026-06-25.
  2. ↑ Evenhuis, N.L.; Pape, T. (2026). "Systema Dipterorum". doi:10.48580/d3bz. Retrieved 2026-06-20.
  3. ↑ Majumdar, U.; Mazumdar, A. (2011). "Chironomid flies of the genus GlyptotendipesKieffer (Diptera: Chironomidae) from India with a short account of their biology". Aquatic Insects. 33 (3). Informa UK Limited: 253–272. doi:10.1080/01650424.2011.597409. ISSN 0165-0424.
  4. ↑ Konar, Sanghamitra; Majumdar, Uttaran (3 July 2021). "Two new species of the genus Glyptotendipes Kieffer (Diptera: Chironomidae: Chironominae) from West Bengal India". Oriental Insects. 55 (3): 386–399. doi:10.1080/00305316.2020.1831640.
  5. ↑ Song, Hokyung; Kim, Won-Seok; Park, Jae-Won; Kwak, Ihn-Sil (2022-10-25). "Identification of Bacterial Communities in Laboratory-Adapted Glyptotendipes tokunagai and Wild-Stream-Inhabiting Chironomus flaviplumus". Microorganisms. 10 (11). MDPI AG: 2107. doi:10.3390/microorganisms10112107. ISSN 2076-2607. PMC 9697596.
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