Saetheria

Saetheria
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Clade:	Pancrustacea
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Diptera
Family:	Chironomidae
Subfamily:	Chironominae
Tribe:	Chironomini
Genus:	Saetheria; Jackson, 1977

Saetheria is a genus of non-biting midges in the family Chironomidae. There are about 16 described species in Saetheria, found in the Americas, Europe, and Asia.

Species

These 16 species belong to the genus Saetheria:

Saetheria angusta (Freeman, 1961)
Saetheria aspidocephala (Linevich, 1959)
Saetheria circinata Mukherjee & Hazra, 2023
Saetheria digitata Yan, Saether & Wang, 2011
Saetheria fuscipennis (Linevich, 1959)
Saetheria glabra Yan, Saether & Wang, 2011
Saetheria gomphocephala (Linevich, 1959)
Saetheria hirta Saether, 1983
Saetheria intermedia (Linevich, 1958)
Saetheria magna (Linevich, 1959)
Saetheria reissi Jackson, 1977
Saetheria sacculifera (Chaudhuri & Chattopadhyay, 1990)
Saetheria separata Yan, Saether & Wang, 2011
Saetheria taishoabea (Sasa & Tanaka, 2001)
Saetheria tamanipparai (Sasa, 1983)
Saetheria tylus (Townes, 1945)

References

↑ "Catalogue of Life, Saetheria Jackson, 1977". 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 Saetheria at iNaturalist

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[catlife-1] "Catalogue of Life, Saetheria Jackson, 1977". Retrieved 2026-06-25.

[Evenhuis2026-2] Evenhuis, N.L.; Pape, T. (2026). "Systema Dipterorum". doi:10.48580/d3bz. Retrieved 2026-06-20.