Einfeldia

Einfeldia
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Clade:	Pancrustacea
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Diptera
Family:	Chironomidae
Subfamily:	Chironominae
Tribe:	Chironomini
Genus:	Einfeldia; Keiffer
Synonyms
	Benthalia Lipina, 1939 ; Enfeldia ;

Einfeldia is a genus of midges in the family Chironomidae. There are at least 20 described species in Einfeldia, found in North America, Europe, and Asia.

Species

These 20 species belong to the genus Einfeldia:

Einfeldia aberlencii Moubayed & Langton, 2025
Einfeldia atitlanensis Sublette & Sasa, 1994
Einfeldia austini Beck & Beck, 1970
Einfeldia australiensis (Freeman) Freeman
Einfeldia carbonaria (Meigen, 1804)
Einfeldia dissidens (Walker, 1856)
Einfeldia dissita Aleksandrov, 1984
Einfeldia longipes (Staeger, 1839)
Einfeldia loripes (Guha & Chaudhuri, 1981)
Einfeldia mendax (Storå, 1936)
Einfeldia natchitocheae (Sublette, 1964)
Einfeldia nojiriprima Sasa, 1991
Einfeldia ocellata Hashimoto, 1985
Einfeldia pagana (Meigen), 1838)
Einfeldia palaearctica Ashe, 1991
Einfeldia pectoralis Kieffer, 1924
Einfeldia pritiensis Signh & Rawal, 2016
Einfeldia sasai Yamamoto & Yamamoto, 2018
Einfeldia storai (Goetghebuer & Lenz, 1954)
Einfeldia wiedemanni (Goetghebuer, 1931)

References

1 2 3 "Catalogue of Life, Einfeldia Keiffer". Retrieved 2026-06-25.
↑ "BugGuide.net, Einfeldia genus Information". Retrieved 2026-06-25.
↑ Evenhuis, N.L.; Pape, T. (2026). "Systema Dipterorum". doi:10.48580/d3bz. Retrieved 2026-06-20.
↑ Cranston, Peter S.; Martin, Jon; Mulder, Monica; Spies, Martin (31 August 2016). "Clarification of Einfeldia Kieffer, 1922 (Diptera: Chironomidae) with E. australiensis (Freeman, 1961), comb. n. based on immature stages". Zootaxa. 4158 (4). doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4158.4.3. hdl:1885/217286.

External links

Citizen science observations for Einfeldia at iNaturalist

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[catlife-1] 1 2 3 "Catalogue of Life, Einfeldia Keiffer". Retrieved 2026-06-25.

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

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

[Cranston2016-4] Cranston, Peter S.; Martin, Jon; Mulder, Monica; Spies, Martin (31 August 2016). "Clarification of Einfeldia Kieffer, 1922 (Diptera: Chironomidae) with E. australiensis (Freeman, 1961), comb. n. based on immature stages". Zootaxa. 4158 (4). doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4158.4.3. hdl:1885/217286.