Glyptotendipes Kieffer, 1913

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

Glyptotendipes Kieffer, 1913

We collected Glyptotendipes (s.s.) lobiferus (Say, 1823) adults around Swan Lake in Sitka in early June. This is the first record of Glyptotendipes in Alaska. We collected larvae of this species from Bob’s Lake near Klawock on Prince of Wales Island. Saether (2011) and Oliver et al. (1990) reported Glyptotendipes (s.s.) barbipes (Staeger, 1839) from Alaska; however, they did not provide the location of their records. Bowser et al. (2020) DNA barcoded a larval specimen of Glyptotendipes from the Slikok Creek watershed. Their specimen closely matched Finland’s BOLD System’s DNA barcode record for Glyptotendipes cf. cauliginellus (Kieffer, 1913) . The larvae of some Glyptotendipes species are semi-miners, living under the bark of submerged branches, colonies of bryozoans and sponges, and leaves of submerged plants or floating leaves ( Epler et al. 2013). These habitats are perhaps undersampled in Alaska and may account for the low diversity of Glyptotendipes species in this state.