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.[2][3][4][1]
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Clade: | Pancrustacea |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Diptera |
| Family: | Chironomidae |
| Subfamily: | Chironominae |
| Tribe: | Chironomini |
| Genus: | Cladopelma Kieffer, 1921 |
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Species
editThese 25 species belong to the genus Cladopelma:[1]
- Cladopelma acutum Yamamoto & Yamamoto, 2022
- Cladopelma amachaerum (Townes, 1945)
- Cladopelma armeniacum (Chernovsky, 1949)
- Cladopelma bicarinatum (Brundin, 1947)
- Cladopelma collator (Townes, 1945)
- Cladopelma costum Yan, Jin & Wang, 2008
- Cladopelma curtivalva (Kieffer, 1917)
- Cladopelma daktylos (Walley, 1934)
- Cladopelma edwardsi (Kruseman, 1933)
- Cladopelma forcipes (Rempel, 1939)
- Cladopelma forcipis (Rempel, 1939)
- Cladopelma fridmanae (Chernovsky, 1949)
- Cladopelma galeator (Townes, 1945)
- Cladopelma goetghebueri Spies & Saether, 2004
- Cladopelma inawabeceus (Sasa, Kitami & Suzuki, 2000)
- Cladopelma inflexum (Freeman, 1957)
- Cladopelma kamalanagari Maheshwari & Agarwal, 1993
- Cladopelma krusemani (Goetghebuer, 1935)
- Cladopelma laccophila (Kieffer, 1922)
- Cladopelma lacustre (Lenz, 1960)
- Cladopelma overmeirense (Goetghebuer, 1932)
- Cladopelma spectabile (Townes, 1945)
- Cladopelma subnigrum (Brundin, 1947)
- Cladopelma virescens (Meigen, 1818)
- Cladopelma viridulum (Linnaeus, 1767)
References
edit- 1 2 3 "Catalogue of Life, Cladopelma Kieffer, 1921". Retrieved 2026-06-25.
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ Evenhuis, N.L.; Pape, T. (2026). "Systema Dipterorum". doi:10.48580/d3bz. Retrieved 2026-06-20.
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