Microchironomus

Microchironomus
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Clade:	Pancrustacea
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Diptera
Family:	Chironomidae
Tribe:	Chironomini
Genus:	Microchironomus; Kieffer, 1921
Type species
	Chironomus (Microchironomus) lendli ; Kieffer, 1918
Subgenera
	Cryptochironomus ; Microchironomus ;
Synonyms
	Leptochironomus Pagast, 1931 ;

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.

Species

These 17 species belong to the genus Microchironomus:

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.

External links

Citizen science observations for Microchironomus at iNaturalist

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[India-1] 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.

[catlife-2] 1 2 3 "Catalogue of Life, Microchironomus Kieffer, 1921". Retrieved 2026-06-25.

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

[Illinois-4] 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.