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 <small>(Townes, 1945)</small>
- Cladopelma bicarinatum <small>(Brundin, 1947)</small>
- Cladopelma collator <small>(Townes, 1945)</small>
- Cladopelma costum <small>Yan et al. 2008</small>
- Cladopelma curtivalve <small>(Kieffer, 1917)</small>
- Cladopelma edwardsi <small>(Kruseman, 1933)</small>
- Cladopelma forcipes <small>(Rempel, 1939)</small>
- Cladopelma galeator <small>(Townes, 1945)</small>
- Cladopelma goetghebueri <small>Spies et Sæther 2004</small>
- Cladopelma inflexum <small>(Freeman, 1957)</small>
- Cladopelma krusemani <small>(Goetghebuer, 1935)</small>
- Cladopelma laccophila<small>(Kieffer, 1922)</small>
- Cladopelma spectabilis <small>(Townes, 1945)</small>
- Cladopelma subnigrum <small>(Brundin, 1947)</small>
- Cladopelma virescens <small>(Meigen, 1818)</small> type species, by designation of Harnisch (1923)
- Cladopelma viridulum <small>(Linnaeus, 1767)</small>
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: 1âÂÂ532.
- Yan C., Z. Jin, and X. Wang. 2008. Cladopelma Kieffer from the Sino-Indian Region (Diptera: Chironomidae). Zootaxa 1916: 44âÂÂ56.