Cladopelma

Cladopelma
Cladopelma viridulum
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
Synonyms
  • 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.

Species

The following species are recognised in the genus Cladopelma:

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.