Mesosmittia Brundin, 1956

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 : 63

Mesosmittia Brundin, 1956

The first faunistic record of Mesosmittia in Alaska were specimens collected from tundra pond(s) near Utqiagvik in the mid 1970s by Butler et al. (1980). Lougheed et al. (2011) found pupal exuviae and emerging adults in the same habitats in 2009 and 2010, and reported the species as relatively rare. The larvae of Mesosmittia are typically considered to be terrestrial. However, adult males were collected from an emergence trap set in the middle of a fast mountain stream in Wales (Andersen et al. 2013).