Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Arthropoda > Subphylum Crustacea > Superclass Allotriocarida > Subphylum Hexapoda > Class Insecta > Infraclass Pterygota > Order Diptera > Suborder Nematocera > Infraorder Culicomorpha > Superfamily Chironomoidea > Family Chironomidae > Subfamily Chironominae > Tribe Chironomini

Chironomus Meigen, 1803

Rank: Genus
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Camptochironomus*	Kieffer, 1918	generic synonym
*Chaetolabis*	Townes, 1945	generic synonym
*Holtedahlia*	Kieffer, 1922	generic synonym
*Lobochironomus*	Ryser, Wuelker & Scholl, 1985	generic synonym
*Tendipes*	Meigen, 1800	generic synonym

Children

Chironomus (Chaetolabis) Townes, 1945
Chironomus (Chironomus) Meigen, 1803
Chironomus (Lobochironomus) Ryser, Wuelker & Scholl, 1985
Chironomus halophilus Kieffer
Chironomus salinarius Kieffer, 1915

Literature

basis of record	Cheng, L. (Ed.). (1976). Marine insects. North-Holland Publishing Company: Amsterdam, The Netherlands. ISBN 0-444-11213-8. XII, 581 pp.
additional source	Brunel, P., L. Bosse & G. Lamarche. (1998). Catalogue of the marine invertebrates of the estuary and Gulf of St. Lawrence. Canadian Special Publication of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences, 126. 405 pp.
additional source	Grootaert, P.; De Bruyn, L.; De Meyer, M. (1991). Catalogue of the Diptera of Belgium. Studiedocumenten van het Koninklijk Belgisch Instituut voor Natuurwetenschappen. 70: 338pp.
additional source	Macfarlane, R.P.; Maddison, P.A.; Andrew, I.G.; Berry, J.A.; Johns, P.M.; Hoarre, R.J.B.; Larivière, M.; Greenslade, P.; Henderson, R.C.; Smithers, C.N.; Palma, R.L.; Ward, J.B.; Pilgrim, R.L.C.; Towns, D.R.; McLellan, I.; Teulon, D.A.J.; Hitchings, T.R.; Eastop, V.F.; Martin, N.A.; Fletcher, M.J.; Stufkens, A.W.; Dale, P.J.; Burckhardt, D.; Buckley, T.R. (2010). Phylum Arthropoda Subphylum Hexapoda: Protura, springtails, Diplura, insects. in: Gordon, D.P. (Ed.) (2010). New Zealand inventory of biodiversity: 2. Kingdom Animalia: Chaetognatha, Ecdysozoa, Ichnofossils. pp. 233-467.