Tribe Chironomini Macquart 1838 (non biting midge)

Insecta - Diptera - Chironomidae

Synonym: Tendipedini

Parent taxon: Chironominae according to V. A. Baranov and J. T. Haug 2021

See also Clapham 2023 and Doitteau and Nel 2007

Sister taxa: Asiatendipini, Bythomyia, Cladopelma, Frutexitendipini, Fushunitendipini, Hamicaudini, Lacusitendipini, Longicopulini, Phaenopsectra, Pseudochironomini, Tanytarsini

Subtaxa: Axarus Chironomus Cryptochironomus Endochironomus Glyptotendipes Hintelmanniella Paratendipes Prolipiniella

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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 Germany (3), New Zealand (1)

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

• Eocene of France (1), the Russian Federation (2), the United Kingdom (3), United States (11: Colorado, Montana, Wyoming)

Total: 45 collections including 90 occurrences

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