Cladopelma Explained

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.