Cladopelma Kieffer, 1921

Namayandeh, Armin, Hudson, Patrick L., Bogan, Daniel L. & Hudson, John P., 2024, Chironomidae (Diptera: Insecta) of Alaska, USA, with descriptions of new species and a checklist, Zootaxa 5511 (1), pp. 1-95 : 76

Cladopelma Kieffer, 1921

Bowser et al. (2020) collected the larvae of Cladopelma bicarinatum (Brundin, 1947) from the Miller Creek watershed on the Kenai Peninsula and identified them using molecular DNA barcoding.We also collected Cladopelma edwardsi (Kruseman, 1933) males around Auke Lake in mid-August. We collected the adults of Cladopelma viridula (Linnaeus, 1767) near Peterson Creek off North Douglas Highway (Highway 7), west of Juneau, in early June and early August. The larvae of this species were collected from the Miller Creek watershed by Bowser et al. (2020). We collected Cladopelma lateralis group larvae from Twin Lakes on Kupreanof Island.. Additional Cladopelma collections include larvae collected from unnamed lakes on Prince of Wales Island, Tetlin National Wildlife Refuge, and along the Arctic Coastal Plain of Alaska ( Arctos 2023) and larvae collected using a paleoenvironmental core sampler from Lone Spruce Lake by Kaufman et al. (2012).

The larvae of Cladopelma inhabit a variety of freshwaters. Danks (1971) found 3.5% of second instars of C. edwardsi in overwintering cocoons in a Canadian pond. Moore (1979) found C. viridula emerging from a subarctic lake in June.