Dicrotendipes

Dicrotendipes
	Dicrotendipes septemmaculatus, South Africa
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Clade:	Pancrustacea
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Diptera
Family:	Chironomidae
Subfamily:	Chironominae
Tribe:	Chironomini
Genus:	Dicrotendipes; Kieffer, 1913
Synonyms
	Calochironomus Kieffer, 1921 ; Carteria Kieffer, 1921 ; Carteronica Strand, 1928 ; Cladotendipes Lenz, 1937 ; Kimius Ree, 1981 ; Limnotendipes Lenz, 1937 ; Sernowia Aristovskaya, 1935 ;

Dicrotendipes is a genus of midges in the family Chironomidae. There are more than 100 described species in Dicrotendipes.

Species

These 107 species belong to the genus Dicrotendipes:

Dicrotendipes adnilus Epler, 1987
Dicrotendipes aethiops (Townes, 1945)
Dicrotendipes alsinensis (Paggi, 1975)
Dicrotendipes amazonicus Epler, 1988
Dicrotendipes arcistylus Guha & Chaudhuri, 1985
Dicrotendipes balciunasi Epler, 1988
Dicrotendipes baru Epler, 1996
Dicrotendipes bilobatus Kieffer, 1917
Dicrotendipes botaurus (Townes, 1945)
Dicrotendipes bredoi (Goetghebuer, 1936)
Dicrotendipes californicus (Johannsen, 1905)
Dicrotendipes candidibasis (Edwards, 1924)
Dicrotendipes canitibialis Guha & Chaudhuri, 1985
Dicrotendipes chambiensis (Goetghebuer, 1936)
Dicrotendipes clavus Mukherjee, Pal & Hazra, 2019
Dicrotendipes collarti (Goetghebuer, 1936)
Dicrotendipes conjunctus (Walker, 1856)
Dicrotendipes cordatus Kieffer, 1922
Dicrotendipes crispi (Freeman, 1957)
Dicrotendipes crypticus Epler, 1987
Dicrotendipes cumberlandensis Epler, 1988
Dicrotendipes dasylabidus Epler, 1988
Dicrotendipes demissus Epler, 1988
Dicrotendipes dubia (Cândea-Cure, 1973)
Dicrotendipes ealae (Freeman, 1957)
Dicrotendipes embalsensis Paggi, 1978
Dicrotendipes fittkaui Epler, 1988
Dicrotendipes flexus (Johannsen, 1932)
Dicrotendipes formosanus Kieffer, 1916
Dicrotendipes freemani Epler, 1988
Dicrotendipes frontalis Kieffer, 1916
Dicrotendipes fumidus (Johannsen, 1905)
Dicrotendipes fusciforceps (Kieffer, 1921)
Dicrotendipes fusconotatus (Kieffer, 1922)
Dicrotendipes gilkai Andersen & Mendes, 2010
Dicrotendipes hulberti Epler, 2016
Dicrotendipes inferior (Johannsen, 1932)
Dicrotendipes inouei Hashimoto, 1984
Dicrotendipes jobetus Epler, 1988
Dicrotendipes jonmartini Epler, 1988
Dicrotendipes koreanus Orel, 2016
Dicrotendipes kribiicola (Kieffer, 1923)
Dicrotendipes leei (Freeman, 1961)
Dicrotendipes leucolabis Kieffer, 1922
Dicrotendipes leucoscelis (Townes, 1945)
Dicrotendipes lindae Epler, 1988
Dicrotendipes lobiger (Kieffer, 1921)
Dicrotendipes lobus Beck, 1962
Dicrotendipes lucifer (Johannsen, 1907)
Dicrotendipes milleri (Townes, 1945)
Dicrotendipes modestus (Say, 1823)
Dicrotendipes multispinosus Freeman, 1957
Dicrotendipes neomodestus (Malloch, 1915)
Dicrotendipes nervosus (Staeger, 1839)
Dicrotendipes nestori Paggi, 1978
Dicrotendipes nigrocephalicus Niitsuma, 1995
Dicrotendipes nigrolineatus (Freeman, 1957)
Dicrotendipes nilophilus (Kieffer, 1925)
Dicrotendipes nipporivus Niitsuma, 1995
Dicrotendipes nitididorsum (Kieffer, 1925)
Dicrotendipes niveicauda (Kieffer, 1921)
Dicrotendipes nocticola (Kieffer, 1911)
Dicrotendipes notatus (Meigen, 1818)
Dicrotendipes nudus Qi, Lin & Wang, 2012
Dicrotendipes obrienorum Epler, 1987
Dicrotendipes orientalis Zorina, 2006
Dicrotendipes ovaleformis Zorina, 2001
Dicrotendipes palearivillosus Epler, 1988
Dicrotendipes pallidicornis (Goetghebuer, 1934)
Dicrotendipes paradasylabidus Epler, 1988
Dicrotendipes paterjohni Epler, 1988
Dicrotendipes paxillus Guha, Chaudhuri & Nandi, 1982
Dicrotendipes pellegriniensis Paggi, 1987
Dicrotendipes pelochloris (Kieffer, 1912)
Dicrotendipes penicillatus (Freeman, 1957)
Dicrotendipes peringueyanus Kieffer, 1924
Dicrotendipes pictipennis Kieffer, 1913
Dicrotendipes pseudoconjunctus Epler, 1988
Dicrotendipes punctatipennis (Kieffer, 1910)
Dicrotendipes quaturodecimpunctatus (Goetghebuer, 1936)
Dicrotendipes radinovskyi Epler, 1988
Dicrotendipes rajasthani Singh & Kulshrestha, 1977
Dicrotendipes regalis (Goetghebuer, 1936)
Dicrotendipes reissi Epler, 1988
Dicrotendipes saetanumerosus Qi, Lin & Wang, 2012
Dicrotendipes sarinae Epler, 1988
Dicrotendipes schoutendeni (Goetghebuer, 1936)
Dicrotendipes semiviridis (Kieffer, 1911)
Dicrotendipes septemmaculatus (Becker, 1908)
Dicrotendipes simpsoni Epler, 1987
Dicrotendipes sinicus Lin & Qi, 2021
Dicrotendipes sinoposus Epler, 1987
Dicrotendipes soccus Epler, 1988
Dicrotendipes socionotus Guha, Chaudhuri & Nandi, 1982
Dicrotendipes sudanicus (Freeman, 1957)
Dicrotendipes tamaviridis Sasa, 1981
Dicrotendipes taylori (Freeman, 1961)
Dicrotendipes tenuiforceps (Kieffer, 1913)
Dicrotendipes thanatogratus Epler, 1987
Dicrotendipes tritomus (Thienemann & Kieffer, 1916)
Dicrotendipes truncatus (Kieffer, 1922)
Dicrotendipes unicus Zorina, 2001
Dicrotendipes venetus (Marcuzzi, 1949)
Dicrotendipes villarricensis Contreras-Lichtenberg, 1994
Dicrotendipes vitellina (Freeman, 1961)
Dicrotendipes weiqianensis Qi, Peng, Zhang & Wang, 2016
Dicrotendipes yaeyamanus Hasegawa & Sasa, 1987

References

1 2 "Catalogue of Life, Dicrotendipes Kieffer, 1913". Retrieved 2026-06-25.
↑ "BugGuide.net, Dicrotendipes genus Information". Retrieved 2026-06-25.
↑ Evenhuis, N.L.; Pape, T. (2026). "Systema Dipterorum". doi:10.48580/d3bz. Retrieved 2026-06-20.

External links

Citizen science observations for Dicrotendipes at iNaturalist
Media related to Dicrotendipes at Wikimedia Commons

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[catlife-1] 1 2 "Catalogue of Life, Dicrotendipes Kieffer, 1913". Retrieved 2026-06-25.

[bugguide-2] "BugGuide.net, Dicrotendipes genus Information". Retrieved 2026-06-25.

[Evenhuis2026-3] Evenhuis, N.L.; Pape, T. (2026). "Systema Dipterorum". doi:10.48580/d3bz. Retrieved 2026-06-20.

Dicrotendipes

Dicrotendipes septemmaculatus, South Africa
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Clade:	Pancrustacea
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Diptera
Family:	Chironomidae
Subfamily:	Chironominae
Tribe:	Chironomini
Genus:	Dicrotendipes Kieffer, 1913
Synonyms
Calochironomus Kieffer, 1921 Carteria Kieffer, 1921 Carteronica Strand, 1928 Cladotendipes Lenz, 1937 Kimius Ree, 1981 Limnotendipes Lenz, 1937 Sernowia Aristovskaya, 1935