CHECKLIST OF THE CHIRONOMIDAE OF FLORIDA
(last updated 24 October 2024)
This checklist registers species known to occur in Florida, based on reliable literature citations and material examined by the author. It also includes taxa which may occur in Florida; many of these taxa occur on the U.S. Southeastern Coastal Plain but have not been positively identified from Florida. Note also that some literature records may be considered doubtful; some species recorded in earlier literature but misidentified are not listed. Only important synonyms pertaining to Florida Chironomidae are listed. Subfamilies are listed in presumed phylogenetic order; genera and species are listed in alphabetic order. Undescribed taxa or taxa known only as larvae are assigned letter or number designators. For more information on Florida taxa, see my 1995 larval Chironomidae identification manual; for more up to date taxonomic information in general, see my 2001 larval Chironomidae manual for North and South Carolina (which covers the entire SE US) and Andersen, Cranston & Epler (2013). For more information on Tanytarsini, see my 2014 Florida Tanytarsini guide (links to these on main page).
This list now follows the taxonomy as used in Andersen, Cranston & Epler (2013) and partly that of Silva & Ekrem (2015).
KEY: [ ] = synonym or previously applied name; * = may occur in Florida; § = recorded from Florida, but identification doubtful, not confirmed or incorrect.
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Telmatogetoninae
Tanypodinae
Diamesinae
Prodiamesinae
Orthocladiinae
Chironominae
TELMATOGETONINAE
Telmatogeton Schiner
japonicus Tokunaga
Thalassomya Schiner
bureni Wirth
TANYPODINAE
Ablabesmyia Johannsen
annulata (Say)
aspera (Roback)
cinctipes (Johannsen)
hauberi Beck & Beck
janta (Roback)
mallochi (Walley)
[= auriensis Roback]
[= ornata Beck & Beck]
[= tarella Roback]
parajanta Roback
peleensis (Walley)
philosphagnos Beck & Beck
rhamphe Sublette
sp. A Epler
Alotanypus Roback
aris Roback
Apsectrotanypus Fittkau
johnsoni (Coquillett)
Clinotanypus Kieffer
aureus Roback
pinguis (Loew)
[= thoracicus (Loew)]
planus Roback
wirthi Roback
Coelotanypus Kieffer
concinnus (Coquillett)
scapularis (Loew)
tricolor (Loew)
Conchapelopia Fittkau [includes Helopelopia Roback]
aleta Roback
cornuticaudata (Walley)
[= gigas (Beck & Beck)]
currani Walley
fasciata Beck & Beck
[= dusena Roback]
pallens (Coquillett)
pilicaudata (Walley)
rurika (Roback)
Denopelopia Roback & Rutter
atria Roback & Rutter
Djalmabatista Fittkau
pulchra (Johannsen)
[= maculatus Roback]
Fittkauimyia Karunakaran
serta (Roback)
Guttipelopia Fittkau
guttipennis (Wulp)
[= currani Beck & Beck]
Hudsonimyia Roback
cf. parrishi Caldwell & Soponis
Krenopelopia
hudsoni Roback
Labrundinia Fittkau
becki Roback
johannseni Beck & Beck
longipalpis (Goetghebuer)
[= maculata Roback]
neopilosella Beck & Beck
pilosella (Loew)
[= floridana Beck & Beck]
virescens Beck & Beck
sp. 3 nr. virescens Roback
[= sp. 4 Roback]
sp. 6 Roback
sp. A Epler
sp. B Epler
sp. C Epler
Larsia Fittkau
berneri Beck & Beck
decolorata (Malloch)
[= lurida Beck & Beck]
indistincta Beck & Beck
Macropelopia Thienemann [includes Bethbilbeckia Fittkau & Murray]
floridensis (Fittkau & Murray)
Meropelopia Roback
americana (Fittkau)
flavifrons (Johannsen)
[= fittkaui Beck & Beck]
Monopelopia Fittkau [includes Cantopelopia Roback]
boliekae Beck & Beck
caraguata Mendes, Marcondes & de Pinho
gesta (Roback)
tenuicalcar (Kieffer)
tillandsia Beck & Beck
Natarsia Fittkau
§ baltimorea (Macquart)
sp. A Roback
Nilotanypus Kieffer
americanus Beck & Beck
fimbriatus (Walker)
Pentaneura Philippi
inconspicua (Malloch)
[= inculta Beck & Beck]
Procladius Skuse
bellus (Loew)
[= pusillus Loew]
curtus Roback
freemani Sublette
sublettei Roback
Psectrotanypus Kieffer
dyari (Coquillett)
Rheopelopia Fittkau
* paramaculipennis (Roback)
* perda (Roback)
sp. A Epler
Tanypus Meigen
carinatus Sublette
clavatus Beck
neopunctipennis Sublette
punctipennis Meigen
stellatus Coquillett
telus Roback
Thienemannimyia Fittkau [includes Hayesomyia Murray & Fittkau]
senata (Walley)
Zavrelimyia Fittkau [includes Paramerina Fittkau]
(Paramerina) anomala Beck & Beck
* (P.) fragilis (Walley)
(P.) testa Roback
(Z.) sinuosa (Coquillett) complex
[= carneosa Fittkau]
(Z.) thryptica (Sublette) complex
DIAMESINAE
* Diamesa Meigen
Potthastia Kieffer
longimana Kieffer
Genus P Doughman
PRODIAMESINAE
* Compteromesa Sæther
Odontomesa Pagast
fulva (Kieffer)
* Prodiamesa Kieffer
* olivacea (Meigen)
ORTHOCLADIINAE
Acamptocladius Brundin
Antillocladius Sæther
arcuatus Sæther
pluspilalus Sæther
Brillia Kieffer
flavifrons (Johannsen)
Bryophaenocladius Thienemann
digitatus Sæther
Camptocladius Wulp
stercorarius (De Geer)
Cardiocladius Kieffer
obscurus (Johannsen)
* Chaetocladius Kieffer
Clunio Haliday
marshalli Stone & Wirth
* Compterosmittia Sæther
Corynoneura Winnertz
capitanea Fu & Sæther
* fittkaui Schlee
floridaensis Fu & Sæther
[= C. sp. B Epler]
lobata Edwards
[= taris Roback]
§ scutellata Winnertz
sp. C Epler
sp. D Epler
sp. E Epler
sp. F Epler
sp. G Epler
sp. H Epler
Cricotopus Wulp
absurdus (Johannsen)
cf. albiforceps (Kieffer)
* belkini Sublette
bicinctus Meigen
* festivellus (Kieffer)
cf. fugax (Johannsen)
lebetis Sublette
* luciae LeSage & Harrison
§ nostocicola Wirth
politus (Coquillett)
* slossonae Malloch
sylvestris (Fabricius)
triannulatus (Macquart)
[= exilis Johannsen]
* tricinctus (Meigen)
trifascia Edwards
trifasciatus Meigen
[= remus Sublette]
varipes Coquillett
vierriensis Goetghebuer
sp. "Santa Fe" Epler
* Diplocladius Kieffer
* Diplosmittia Sæther
* Doithrix Sæther & Sublette
Epoicocladius Zavrel
flavens (Malloch)
Eukiefferiella Thienemann
claripennis (Lundbeck) group
devonica (Edwards) group
Georthocladius Strenzke
Gymnometriocnemus Goetghebuer
Heterotrissocladius Spärck
marcidus (Walker)
sp. C Sæther
Hydrobaenus Fries
pilipes (Malloch)
Krenosmittia Thienemann & Krüger
Limnophyes Eaton
fumosus (Johannsen)
minimus (Meigen)
natalensis (Kieffer)
Lipurometriocnemus Sæther
glabalus Sæther
Lopescladius Oliveira
Mesosmittia Brundin
* mina Sæther
patrihortae Sæther
* prolixa Sæther
Metriocnemus Wulp
knabi Coquillett
sp. A Epler
Nanocladius Kieffer
alternantherae Dendy & Sublette
balticus (Palmén)
* branchicolus Sæther
crassicornus Sæther
distinctus (Malloch)
* downesi (Steffan)
minimus Sæther
cf. rectinervis (Kieffer)
spiniplenus Sæther
sp. D Epler
sp. # 5 Jacobsen
Orthocladius Wulp
annectens Sæther
cf. dentifer Brundin
dubitatus Johannsen
lignicola (Kieffer)
* obumbratus Johannsen
oliveri Soponis
rubicundus (Meigen)
Parachaetocladius Wülker
abnobaeus (Wülker)
Paracricotopus Thienemann & Harnisch
Parakiefferiella Thienemann
coronata (Edwards)
[= sp. C Epler]
sp. A Epler
sp. B Epler
sp. D Epler
sp. F Epler
Parametriocnemus Goetghebuer
hamatus (Johannsen)
lundbeckii (Johannsen)
sp. F Epler
Paraphaenocladius Thienemann
exagitans (Johannsen)
* Paratrichocladius Santos Abreu
* Platysmittia Sæther
Phytotelmatocladius Epler
delarosai Epler
[= Orthocladiinae genus H Epler]
Psectrocladius Kieffer
elatus Roback
pilosus Roback
psilopterus group sp.1 Epler
simulans (Johannsen)
vernalis (Malloch)
(Monopsectrocladius) sp.
Pseudorthocladius Goetghebuer
destitutus Sæther & Sublette
macrostomus Soponis
* rectangilobus Caspers & Siebert
tricanthus Sæther & Sublette
uniserratus Sæther & Sublette
Pseudosmittia Goetghebuer
digitata Sæther
dolobrata Ferrington & Sæther
forcipata (Goetghebuer)
Psilometriocnemus Sæther
triannulatus Sæther
Rheocricotopus Thien. & Harnisch
robacki (Beck & Beck)
tuberculatus Caldwell
Rheosmittia Brundin
nr. arcuata Caldwell
Smittia Holmgren
aterrima (Meigen)
lasiops (Malloch)
sp. A Epler
sp. B Epler
Stilocladius Rossaro
clinopecten Sæther
* Symbiocladius Kieffer
Synorthocladius Thienemann
semivirens (Kieffer)
Thienemanniella Kieffer
lobapodema Hestenes & Sæther
[= spp. A, D Epler]
similis (Malloch)
xena (Roback)
sp. B Epler
sp. C Epler
Tvetenia Kieffer
bavarica (Goetghebuer) group
tshernovskii (Pankratova)
[= vitracies Sæther or "discoloripes group"]
Unniella Sæther
multivirga Sæther
Xylotopus Oliver
par (Coquillett)
Zalutschia Lipina
briani Soponis
sp. A Epler
Orthocladiinae sp. C Sæther
CHIRONOMINAE
Apedilum Townes
elachistus Townes
subcinctum Townes
Axarus Roback
dorneri (Malloch)
* festivus (Say)
rogersi (Beck & Beck)
taenionotus (Say)
Beardius Reiss & Sublette
breviculus Reiss & Sublette
reissi Jacobsen
truncatus Reiss & Sublette
* Beckidia Sæther
Benthalia Lipina
brunneipennis (Johannsen)
natchitocheae (Sublette)
Chernovskiia Sæther
Chironomus Meigen
* anonymus Williston
austini (Beck & Beck)
calligraphus Goeldi
columbiensis Wülker, Sublette, Morath & Martin
crassicaudatus Malloch
decorus Johannsen
longipes Staeger
* major Wülker & Butler
ochreatus (Townes)
plumosus (Linnaeus)
riparius Meigen
staegeri Lundbeck
stigmaterus Say
tuxis Curran
vitellinus Freeman
sp. "Florida" Epler
Cladopelma Kieffer
amachaerum (Townes)
forcipis (Rempel)
collator (Townes)
edwardsi (Kruseman)
galeator (Townes)
virudulum (Linnaeus)
Cladotanytarsus Kieffer
acornutus Jacobsen & Bilyj
aeiparthenus Bilyj
cf. daviesi Bilyj
latissimus Giłka
subletteorum Giłka
viridiventris (Malloch)
[= sp. B Epler]
sp. A Epler
sp. C Epler
sp. D Epler
sp. F Epler
sp. G Epler
sp. H Epler
sp. I Epler
Cryptochironomus Kieffer
blarina Townes
digitatus (Malloch)
eminentia Mason
fulvus (Johannsen)
parafulvus (Beck & Beck)
ponderosus (Sublette)
scimitarus Townes
sorex Townes
stylifera (Johannsen)
Cryptotendipes Beck & Beck
emorsus (Townes)
pseudotener (Goetghebuer)
rutteri Epler [= sp. 1 Epler]
Demeijerea Kruseman
atrimana (Coquillett)
* brachialis (Coquillett)
Demicryptochironomus Lenz
* cuneatus (Townes)
sp. B Epler
Dicrotendipes Kieffer
fumidus (Johannsen)
hulberti Epler [= sp. A Epler]
leucoscelis (Townes)
lobus (Beck)
lucifer (Johannsen)
modestus (Say)
neomodestus (Malloch)
nervosus (Staeger)
simpsoni Epler
thanatogratus Epler
tritomus (Kieffer)
sp. B Epler
Einfeldia Kieffer
* pagana (Meigen)
sp. A Epler
Endochironomus Kieffer
nigricans (Johannsen)
subtendens (Townes)
sp. A Epler
Endotribelos Grodhaus
hesperium (Sublette)
Fissimentum Cranston & Nolte
sp. A Epler
* Gillotia Kieffer
Glyptotendipes Kieffer
* barbipes (Staeger)
chelonia (Townes) [was amplus Townes]
§ lobiferus (Say)
meridionalis Dendy & Sublette
paripes Edwards
seminole Townes
testaceus
sp. B Epler
sp. E Epler
sp. F Epler
sp. G Epler
Goeldichironomus Fittkau
amazonicus (Fittkau)
carus (Townes)
devineyae (Beck & Beck)
fluctuans Reiss
holoprasinus (Goeldi)
cf. natans Reiss
pictus Reiss
Harnischia Kieffer
curtilamellata (Malloch)
* incidata Townes
Hyporhygma Reiss
quadripunctatum (Malloch)
Kiefferulus Goetghebuer
dux (Johannsen)
pungens (Townes)
sp. A Epler
sp. B Epler
Kloosia Kruseman
cf. dorsenna (Sæther)
Kribiodorum Kieffer
perpulchrum (Mitchell)
Lauterborniella Thienemann & Bause
agrayloides (Kieffer)
Manoa Fittkau
pahayokeensis Jacobsen
Microchironomus Kieffer
nigrovittatus (Malloch)
Micropsectra Kieffer
cf. nigripila (Johannsen)
cf. polita (Malloch)
xantha (Roback)
sp. A Epler
sp. F Epler
Microtendipes Kieffer
caducus Townes
pedellus (De Geer)
Neostempellina Reiss
reissi Caldwell
[= Stempellina sp. C Epler]
Nilothauma Kieffer
babiyi (Rempel)
bicorne (Townes)
mirabile (Townes)
sp. A Epler
Olecryptotendipes Zorina
sp.
[=Harnischia complex genus C Epler]
Omisus Townes
browni Caldwell
pica Townes
Pagastiella Brundin
orophila (Edwards)?
Parachironomus Lenz
alatus (Beck)
carinatus (Townes)
chaetoalus (Sublette)
directus (Dendy & Sublette)
frequens (Johannsen)
hazelriggi Spies
hirtalatus (Beck & Beck)
longistilus Paggi
[= sp. A Epler; supparilis (Edwards)]
pectinatellae (Dendy & Sublette)
potamogeti (Townes)
[= sp. B Epler]
schneideri Beck & Beck
sublettei (Beck)
tenuicaudatus (Malloch)
sp. D Epler
Paracladopelma Harnisch
doris (Townes)
loganae Beck & Beck
nereis (Townes)
undine (Townes)
sp. 1 Jackson
Paralauterborniella Lenz
nigrohalteralis (Malloch)
Paratanytarsus Thienemann & Bause
dissimilis (Johannsen)
[= sp. A Epler]
dubius (Malloch)
longistilus Bolton, Ekrem, Sublette & Sublette
[= Micropsectra sp. D Epler; Tanytarsus sp. W Epler]
quadratus Sublette
[= sp. C Epler]
recens (Sublette)
sp. 2 Epler
sp. B Epler
Paratendipes Kieffer
albimanus (Meigen)
basidens Townes
subaequalis (Malloch)
Phaenopsectra Kieffer
§ dyari (Townes)
flavipes (Meigen)
obediens (Johannsen)
punctipes (Wiedemann)
* vittata (Townes)
Polypedilum Kieffer [includes Asheum Sublette & Sublette]
albicorne (Meigen)
acifer Townes
angulum Maschwitz
angustum Townes
aviceps Townes
beckae (Sublette)
braseniae (Leathers)
digitifer Townes
epleri Oyewo & Jacobsen
[= sp. A Epler]
falciforme Maschwitz
fallax (Johannsen)
flavum (Johannsen)
[= convictum auct.; obtusum Townes]
floridense Townes
gomphus Townes
griseopunctatum (Malloch)
halterale (Coquillett)
illinoense (Malloch)
laetum (Meigen)
[= sp. C Epler]
nubifer (Skuse)
nymphaeorum Maschwitz
ontario (Walley)
* ophioides Townes
parascalaenum Beck
parvum Townes
pterospilus Townes
scalaenum (Schrank)
simulans Townes
trigonus Townes
tritum (Walker)
vibex Townes
sp. B Epler
sp. FL Epler
[may be P. bergi]
Pontomyia Edwards
natans Edwards
Pseudochironomus Malloch
articaudus Sæther
* banksi Townes
fulviventris (Johannsen)
* julia (Curran)
middlekaufi Townes
* rex (Hauber)
richardsoni Malloch
Rheotanytarsus Thienemann & Bause
exiguus (Johannsen)
pellucidus (Walker)
[= distinctissimus Brundin]
Robackia Sæther
claviger (Townes)
demeijerei (Kruseman)
Saetheria Jackson
hirta Sæther
tylus (Townes)
sp. 1 Jackson
Stempellina Thienemann & Bause
johansenni (Thienemann & Bause)
subglabripennis (Brundin)
[= sp. D Epler]
sp. A Epler
Stempellinella Brundin
leptocelloides (Webb)
fimbriata Ekrem
[= sp. A Epler]
Stenochironomus Kieffer
aestivalis Townes
browni Townes
cinctus Townes
hilaris (Walker)
macateei (Malloch)
poecilopterus (Mitchell)
unictus Townes
Stictochironomus Kieffer
caffrarius group sp.
[= Chironomini genus B Pinder & Reiss]
devinctus (Say)
palliatus (Coquillett)
* varius (Townes)
Sublettea Roback
probably coffmani (Roback)
Tanytarsus Wulp
acifer Ekrem, Sublette & Sublette
allicis Sublette
[= sp. C Epler, in part]
becki Ekrem, Sublette & Sublette
cf. bromelicola Cranston
buckleyi Sublette
[= sp. C Epler, in part]
confusus Malloch
dendyi Sublette
epleri Ekrem, Sublette & Sublette
gibbus Ekrem, Sublette & Sublette
[ = sp. S Epler]
guerlus (Roback)
hastatus Sublette & Sasa
[= sp. E Epler, sp. Q Epler]
limneticus Sublette
[= Nimbocera pinderi Steiner & Hulbert]
* martini Ekrem, Sublette & Sublette
mendax Kieffer
[= xanthus Sublette]
messersmithi Ekrem, Sublette & Sublette
[ = sp. Y Epler]
neoflavellus Malloch
pathudsoni Ekrem, Sublette & Sublette
* pelsuei Spies
sepp Ekrem, Sublette & Sublette
[= T. sp. A Epler]
wirthi Ekrem, Sublette & Sublette
sp. B Epler
sp. D Epler
sp. F Epler
sp. G Epler
sp. H Epler
sp. I Epler
sp. J Epler
sp. K Epler
sp. L Epler
sp. M Epler
sp. N Epler
sp. O Epler
sp. P Epler
sp. R Epler
sp. T Epler
sp. U Epler
sp. V Epler
sp. X Epler
sp. Z Epler
sp. alpha Epler
sp. beta Epler
sp. delta Epler
sp. gamma Epler
sp. epsilon Epler
Tribelos Townes
atrum (Townes)
fuscicorne (Malloch)
jucundum (Walker)
Xenochironomus Kieffer
xenolabis (Kieffer)
Xestochironomus Sublette & Wirth
subletti Borkent
Zavrelia Kieffer, Thienemann & Bause
aristata Ekrem & Stur
Zavreliella Kieffer
marmorata (Wulp)
[= varipennis Coquillett]
Chironomini genus III Epler
Chironomini genus IV Epler
Harnischia complex genus A Epler
Harnischia complex genus B Epler