Microchironomus
| Microchironomus | |
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Clade: | Pancrustacea |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Diptera |
| Family: | Chironomidae |
| Tribe: | Chironomini |
| Genus: | Microchironomus Kieffer, 1921 |
| Type species | |
| Chironomus (Microchironomus) lendli [1] Kieffer, 1918 [1] | |
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Microchironomus is a genus of non-biting midges in the family Chironomidae. There are about 17 described species in Microchironomus, found on every continent except Antarctica.[2][3][1][4]
Species
These 17 species belong to the genus Microchironomus:[2]
- Microchironomus brochus Yan, Saether, Jin & Wang, 2008
- Microchironomus cavus Yan & Wang, 2006
- Microchironomus conjungens Lenz, 1926
- Microchironomus deribae (Freeman, 1957)
- Microchironomus fuscitarsus (Guha & Chaudhuri, 1979)
- Microchironomus ishii Sasa, 1987
- Microchironomus lacteipennis (Kieffer, 1921)
- Microchironomus lendli (Kieffer, 1918)
- Microchironomus magnifrons Kieffer, 1926
- Microchironomus nigrovittatus (Malloch, 1915)
- Microchironomus oblanceolata Maheshwari & Agarwal, 1993
- Microchironomus stilifer (Freeman, 1954)
- Microchironomus superatus (Kieffer, 1922)
- Microchironomus tabarui Sasa, 1987
- Microchironomus tener (Kieffer, 1918)
- Microchironomus teruyai Sasa, 1991
- Microchironomus trisetifer Hashimoto, 1981
References
- 1 2 3 Mukherjee, Bindarika; Ray, Namrata; Naskar, Atanu; Banerjee, Dhriti (31 January 2025). "New Record of Microchironomus deribae (Freeman, 1957) (Diptera: Chironomidae) from India, with a World Key to the Males and Phylogenetic Relationship". Records of the Zoological Survey of India: 139–146. doi:10.26515/rzsi/v124/i1S/2024/172725.
- 1 2 3 "Catalogue of Life, Microchironomus Kieffer, 1921". Retrieved 2026-06-25.
- ↑ Evenhuis, N.L.; Pape, T. (2026). "Systema Dipterorum". doi:10.48580/d3bz. Retrieved 2026-06-20.
- ↑ Swanson, Daniel R.; Bilger, Erika E. (2 April 2022). "An Updated Checklist to the Non-biting Midges (Chironomidae) of Illinois". The Great Lakes Entomologist. 54 (2). doi:10.22543/0090-0222.2402.
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