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For Insects, Spiders & Their Kin
For the United States & Canada

Genus Alotanypus

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Classification
Kingdom Animalia (Animals)
Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)
Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)
Class Insecta (Insects)
Order Diptera (Flies)
No Taxon ("Nematocera" (Non-Brachycera))
Infraorder Culicomorpha (Mosquitoes and Midges)
Family Chironomidae (Non-biting Midges)
Subfamily Tanypodinae
Tribe Macropelopiini
Genus Alotanypus
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
Alotanypus Roback 1971(1)
Numbers
Two species in North America
Habitat
Larvae of the Eastern species, A. aris, "have been found in acid water (pH 3.9-4.0) in springs, seeps and bogs."(2)