Genus Cryptochironomus Kieffer, 1918

A genus of 57 described species distributed in all zoogeographical regions, except Antarctica. Four species are described from South America (Silva et al. 2010). Keys to the Neotropical males, pupae and larvae were given by Silva et al. (2010). The larvae occur in various substrata in lakes, streams and rivers (Epler et al. 2013).