Acricotopus, Namayandeh & Hudson & Bogan & Hudson, 2024

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 : 53

Acricotopus Kieffer, 1921

We collected adults of Acricotopus lucens (Zetterstedt, 1850) near the Alaska Highway (Highway 2) at the Yukon Territory-Alaska border. This Boreal area contains small lakes, streams, and wetlands. Other records of the genus in Alaska come from Watson et al. (1966) reporting an unknown Acricotopus which at the time was indicated as a new species (i.e., Acricotopus n. sp.), from the Ogoturuk Valley in the Western bioregion. However, no consequent assessment of this species was reported. Larvae of Acricotopus were also collected on St. Matthew Island ( Sikes et al. 2016). We collected Acricotopus larvae from three small unnamed lakes west of Teshekpuk Lake on the Arctic Coastal Plain. Larvae of Acricotopus are known to inhabit small streams, vernal pools, bog pools, and the littoral zone of lakes (Andersen et al. 2013).