Metriocnemus

Metriocnemus
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Diptera
Suborder:	Nematocera
Infraorder:	Culicomorpha
Superfamily:	Chironomoidea
Family:	Chironomidae
Subfamily:	Orthocladiinae
Genus:	Metriocnemus van der Wulp, 1874

Metriocnemus is a genus of non-biting midges in the subfamily Orthocladiinae of the bloodworm family Chironomidae.

Species

M. acutus Sæther, 1995
M. aequalis Johannsen, 1934
M. albolineatus (Meigen, 1818)
M. atratulus (Zetterstedt, 1850)
M. atriclava Kieffer, 1921
M. beringiensis (Cranston & Oliver, 1988)
M. brusti Sæther, 1989
M. carmencitabertarum Langton & Cobo, 1997
M. caudigus Sæther, 1995
M. cavicola Kieffer, 1921
M. corticalis Strenzke, 1950
M. edwardsi Jones, 1916
M. eryngiotelmatus, Donato & Paggi, 2005^[1]
M. eurynotus (Holmgren, 1883)
M. exilacies Sæther, 1995
M. fuscipes (Meigen, 1818)
M. herbicolus Hardy, 1960
M. hirticollis (Stæger, 1839)
M. hornsbyensis Freeman, 1961
M. hygropetricus (Kieffer, 1911)
M. inopinatus Strenzke, 1950
M. intergerivus Sæther, 1995
M. knabi Coquillett, 1904^[2]
M. lacteolus Goetghebuer, 1921
M. longipennis (Holmgren, 1883)
M. obscuripes (Holmgren, 1869)
M. pankratovae Golubeva, 1980
M. perfuscus Malloch, 1934
M. picipes (Meigen, 1818)
M. polaris Kieffer, 1926
M. similis Kieffer, 1922
M. terrester Pagast, 1941
M. tristellus Edwards, 1929
M. ursinus (Holmgren, 1869)

References

^ Mariano Donato & Analía C. Paggi (2005). "A new Neotropical species of the genus Metriocnemus van der Wulp (Chironomidae: Orthocladiinae) from Eryngium L. (Apiaceae) phytotelmata" (Pdf). Zootaxa (New Zealand: Magnolia Press) 1050: 1–14. ISSN 1175-5334. http://www.mapress.com/zootaxa/2005f/z01050p014f.pdf. Retrieved 2009-04-01.
^ Heard, S. B. (1994). "Pitcher-plant midges and mosquitoes: a processing chain commensalism". Ecology 75 (6): 1647–1660. doi:10.2307/1939625. JSTOR 1939625.