Acricotopus

Acricotopus
Head of an Acricotopus longipalpus larva
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Diptera
Family:	Chironomidae
Genus:	Acricotopus Kieffer, 1921

Acricotopus is a genus of non-biting midges of the bloodworm family Chironomidae.

Species

• A. lucens (Zetterstedt, 1850)
• A. simplex Zhang & Wang 2004 ^[1]
• A. zhalingensis Zhang ^[2]

References

1. "Acricotopus simplex Zhang & Wang, 2004". www.gbif.org.
2. Laug, Andreas; HamerlíK, Ladislav; Anslan, Sten; Engels, Stefan; Turner, Falko; Wang, Junbo; Schwalb, Antje (14 August 2019). "Acricotopus indet. morphotype incurvatus: Description and genetics of a new Orthocladiinae (Diptera: Chironomidae) larval morphotype from the Tibetan Plateau". Zootaxa. 4656 (3). doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4656.3.10.