Cryptotendipes

Cryptotendipes is a genus of nonbiting midges in the family Chironomidae. There are more than 20 described species in Cryptotendipes, found in the holarctic.

==Species== These 26 species belong to the genus Cryptotendipes: Cryptotendipes acalcar Reiss, 1990 Cryptotendipes aculeatus Pal & Hazra, 2018 Cryptotendipes acutus (Goetghebuer, 1936) Cryptotendipes ariel (Sublette, 1960) Cryptotendipes bullum Song & Wang, 2020 Cryptotendipes casuarius (Townes, 1945) Cryptotendipes daitogeheus Sasa & Suzuki, 2001 Cryptotendipes darbyi (Sublette, 1960) Cryptotendipes emorsus (Townes, 1945) Cryptotendipes hibaraprima (Sasa, 1993) Cryptotendipes holsatus Lenz, 1959 Cryptotendipes irioabeus Sasa & Suzuki, 2000 Cryptotendipes lyalichi Zorina, 2006 Cryptotendipes medialis Mukherjee, Mukherjee & Hazra, 2020 Cryptotendipes mongolijeus Sasa & Suzuki, 1997 Cryptotendipes nigronitens (Edwards, 1929) Cryptotendipes nodus Yan, Tang & Wang, 2005 Cryptotendipes parallelus Yan, Tang & Wang, 2005 Cryptotendipes pflugfelderi Reiss, 1964 Cryptotendipes pilicuspis Saether, 1977 Cryptotendipes pseudotener Goetghebuer, 1922 Cryptotendipes rutteri Epler, 2018 Cryptotendipes tobasecundus Kikuchi & Sasa, 1990 Cryptotendipes tobatertius Kikuchi & Sasa, 1990 Cryptotendipes tuberosus Cryptotendipes usmaensis (Pagast, 1931)