Cryptotendipes

Cryptotendipes
Cryptotendipes pseudotener, Belgium
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Diptera
Family:	Chironomidae
Subfamily:	Chironominae
Tribe:	Chironomini
Genus:	Cryptotendipes Beck & Beck, 1969

Cryptotendipes is a genus of nonbiting midges in the family Chironomidae. There are more than 20 described species in Cryptotendipes, found in the holarctic. ^{[1] [2] [3]}

Species

These 26 species belong to the genus Cryptotendipes:

• Cryptotendipes acalcar Reiss, 1990
• Cryptotendipes aculeatus Pal & Hazra, 2018
• Cryptotendipes acutus (Goetghebuer, 1936)
• Cryptotendipes ariel (Sublette, 1960)
• Cryptotendipes bullum Song & Wang, 2020
• Cryptotendipes casuarius (Townes, 1945)
• Cryptotendipes daitogeheus Sasa & Suzuki, 2001
• Cryptotendipes darbyi (Sublette, 1960)
• Cryptotendipes emorsus (Townes, 1945)
• Cryptotendipes hibaraprima (Sasa, 1993)
• Cryptotendipes holsatus Lenz, 1959
• Cryptotendipes irioabeus Sasa & Suzuki, 2000
• Cryptotendipes lyalichi Zorina, 2006
• Cryptotendipes medialis Mukherjee, Mukherjee & Hazra, 2020
• Cryptotendipes mongolijeus Sasa & Suzuki, 1997
• Cryptotendipes nigronitens (Edwards, 1929)
• Cryptotendipes nodus Yan, Tang & Wang, 2005
• Cryptotendipes parallelus Yan, Tang & Wang, 2005
• Cryptotendipes pflugfelderi Reiss, 1964
• Cryptotendipes pilicuspis Saether, 1977
• Cryptotendipes pseudotener Goetghebuer, 1922
• Cryptotendipes rutteri Epler, 2018
• Cryptotendipes tobasecundus Kikuchi & Sasa, 1990
• Cryptotendipes tobatertius Kikuchi & Sasa, 1990
• Cryptotendipes tuberosus
• Cryptotendipes usmaensis (Pagast, 1931)

References

1. "ITIS report, Cryptotendipes" . Retrieved 2025-04-26.
2. "GBIF, Cryptotendipes" . Retrieved 2025-04-26.
3. "Catalogue of Life, Cryptotendipes Beck & Beck, 1969" . Retrieved 2025-04-26.

External links

• Citizen science observations for Cryptotendipes at iNaturalist