Cladopelma

Cladopelma is a genus of non-biting midges in the subfamily Chironominae and tribe Chironomini of the bloodworm family Chironomidae. Species are distributed world-wide (Cranston et al. 1989, Yan et al. 2008), with species represented in the Palaearctic, Nearctic, Neotropical, Afrotropical, Sino-Indian, and Austroasian regions.

Cladopelma
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Arthropoda
Class:
Insecta
Order:
Diptera
Suborder:
Nematocera
Infraorder:
Culicomorpha
Superfamily:
Chironomoidea
Family:
Chironomidae
Subfamily:
Chironominae
Tribe:
Chironomini
Genus:
Cladopelma

Kieffer, 1921

Species
  • Cladopelma amachaerus (Townes, 1945)
  • Cladopelma bicarinatum (Brundin, 1947)
  • Cladopelma collator (Townes, 1945)
  • Cladopelma costum Yan et al. 2008
  • Cladopelma curtivalve (Kieffer, 1917)
  • Cladopelma edwardsi (Kruseman, 1933)
  • Cladopelma forcipes (Rempel, 1939)
  • Cladopelma galeator (Townes, 1945)
  • Cladopelma goetghebueri Spies et Sæther 2004
  • Cladopelma inflexum (Freeman, 1957)
  • Cladopelma krusemani (Goetghebuer, 1935)
  • Cladopelma laccophila(Kieffer, 1922)
  • Cladopelma spectabilis (Townes, 1945)
  • Cladopelma subnigrum (Brundin, 1947)
  • Cladopelma virescens (Meigen, 1818) type species, by designation of Harnisch (1923)
  • Cladopelma viridulum (Linnaeus, 1767)
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References
  • Cranston P.S., M.E. Dillon, L.C.V. Pinder and F. Reiss. 1989. The adult males of Chironominae (Diptera: Chironomidae) of the Holarctic region - keys and diagnoses, p. 353-502 in Wiederholm, T. (Ed.), Chironomidae of the Holarctic region. Keys and diagnoses. Part 3 Adult males. Entomologica Scandinavica (suppl.) 34: 1-532.
  • Yan C., Z. Jin, and X. Wang. 2008. Cladopelma Kieffer from the Sino-Indian Region (Diptera: Chironomidae). Zootaxa 1916: 44–56.


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