Biology:Cladopelma
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Short description: Genus of flies
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| Genus: | Cladopelma Kieffer, 1921
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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.
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)
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.
Wikidata ☰ Q5124947 entry
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