Parachaetocladius

Parachaetocladius
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Clade:	Pancrustacea
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Diptera
Superfamily:	Chironomoidea
Family:	Chironomidae
Subfamily:	Orthocladiinae
Genus:	Parachaetocladius; Wülker, 1959

Parachaetocladius is a genus of non-biting midges in the subfamily Orthocladiinae of the bloodworm family (Chironomidae). It was first described in 1959 by Wolfgang Wülker. The genus description was revised in 2020.

Species

Species listed by GBIF As of 6 October 2025^[update]:

Parachaetocladius abnobaeus (Wülker, 1959)
Parachaetocladius akanoctavus Sasa & Kamimura, 1987
Parachaetocladius balticus Seredszus & Wichard, 2007
Parachaetocladius broankerothurrie Namayandeh & Beresford, 2020
Parachaetocladius hirtipectus Saether, 1969
Parachaetocladius hudsoni (Saether, 1977)
Parachaetocladius imberbus Saether & Sublette, 1983
Parachaetocladius pyrenaeus Moubayed, 2020
Parachaetocladius squamula Liu & Cao, 2020

References

1 2 3 "GBIF: Parachaetocladius". Retrieved 6 October 2025.
↑ Wülker W. (1959) Drei neue Chironomiden - Arten (Dipt.) und ihre Bedeutung fur das Konvergenzproblem bei Imagines und Puppen. Archiv für Hydrobiologie Supplement, 25(1): 44–49
↑ Armin Namayandeh; Joel Moubayed; Edris Ghaderi; David V. Beresford (2020). "A review of the genera Georthocladius Strenzke, 1941 and Parachaetocladius Wülker, 1959 (Chironomidae, Orthocladiinae): new species descriptions, and keys based on the morphological characters of adult male" (PDF). Polish Journal of Entomology. 1 (89): 59–80. doi:10.5604/01.3001.0014.1517. Wikidata Q110668167. {{Cite Q}}: Missing first/last names in Wikidata for Armin Namayandeh, Joel Moubayed, Edris Ghaderi, David V. Beresford (help)

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[gbif-1] 1 2 3 "GBIF: Parachaetocladius". Retrieved 6 October 2025.

[2] Wülker W. (1959) Drei neue Chironomiden - Arten (Dipt.) und ihre Bedeutung fur das Konvergenzproblem bei Imagines und Puppen. Archiv für Hydrobiologie Supplement, 25(1): 44–49

[revision-3] Armin Namayandeh; Joel Moubayed; Edris Ghaderi; David V. Beresford (2020). "A review of the genera Georthocladius Strenzke, 1941 and Parachaetocladius Wülker, 1959 (Chironomidae, Orthocladiinae): new species descriptions, and keys based on the morphological characters of adult male" (PDF). Polish Journal of Entomology. 1 (89): 59–80. doi:10.5604/01.3001.0014.1517. Wikidata Q110668167. {{Cite Q}}: Missing first/last names in Wikidata for Armin Namayandeh, Joel Moubayed, Edris Ghaderi, David V. Beresford (help)