Subfamily Chironominae Macquart 1838 (non biting midge)

Insecta - Diptera - Chironomidae

Parent taxon: Chironomidae according to W. Giłka et al. 2023

See also Baranov and Haug 2021, Doitteau and Nel 2007, Giłka 2010, Giłka and Zakrzewska 2013, Giłka et al. 2016, Giłka and Zakrzewska 2018, Giłka and Zakrzewska 2020, Giłka et al. 2021, Kieffer 1906, Seredszus and Wichard 2007, Zakrzewska and Giłka 2014, Zakrzewska and Jankowska 2021 and Zakrzewska et al. 2016

Sister taxa: Aenneinae, Aphroteniinae, Buchonomyiinae, Calopsectra, Chironomopsis, Coelochironoma, Corynocera, Cricotopiella, Diamesa, Diamesinae, Dicrotendipes, Eurycnemus, Huabeitendipes, Jentzschiella, Jurochlus, Langtonius, Liauningius, Libanochlites, Manlayamyia, Mogsonomus, Nomochirus, Orthocladiinae, Orusa, Pelopia, Podonominae, Polypedilum, Prodiamesinae, Sendelia, Sergentia, Sinoryctochlus, Stictochironomus, Tanypodinae, Tinactum, Ulaiinae, Ulaimailia, Ulaimailonia, Ulaimailoniella, Viduata, Protobibio, Pelopiina, Tendipopsis

Subtaxa: Asiatendipini Bythomyia Chironomini Cladopelma Frutexitendipini Fushunitendipini Hamicaudini Lacusitendipini Longicopulini Phaenopsectra Pseudochironomini Tanytarsini

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Type: Chironomus

Ecology:

Distribution:

• Quaternary of Brazil (1 collection), Canada (2: Ontario), France (1), Greenland (5), Madagascar (1), New Zealand (1), Tanzania (1), the United Kingdom (1), United States (1: Wisconsin)

• Blancan of United States (1: Texas)

• Pliocene of Australia (1), Japan (1)

• Miocene of Australia (1), China (1), Germany (3), New Zealand (1)

• Oligocene of France (4), Germany (3)

• Eocene of China (4), France (1), India (1), Poland (1), the Russian Federation (6), Ukraine (3), the United Kingdom (3), United States (11: Colorado, Montana, Wyoming)

• Cretaceous of Myanmar (1), the Russian Federation (1)

Total: 62 collections including 179 occurrences

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