Endochironomus Kieffer, 1918

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 : 79

Endochironomus Kieffer, 1918

We collected Endochironomus nigricans (Johannsen, 1905) adult males around Peterson Creek in late August and larvae from a Koksetnra River tributary in the southwestern Central bioregion, which had been recently impounded by beavers. In early August, we collected Endochironomus subtendens ( Townes, 1945) adults along the Yukon- Alaska border off the Alaska Highway (Highway 2) and larvae from Ketchikan’s Ward Lake in the Southeastern bioregion. Both species are new faunistic records for Alaska. We also collected unknown larvae in Auke Bay. Grodhaus (1987) describes the larval habitat as shallow vegetated areas of lakes where the larvae are facultative leaf miners.