Genus Cryptotendipes Lenz, 1941

A genus of 23 described species, most of which occur in the Nearctic and Palaearctic regions. A single named species, C. daktylos (Walley in Curran, 1934) is recorded from Guyana in South America (Spies & Reiss 1996). The larvae inhabit sediments of sand and mud in lakes and rivers (Epler et al. 2013).