Metriocnemus Wulp, 1874

Armitage, Brian J., Andersen, Trond, Giłka, Wojciech, Castillo Sánchez, Kayla N., Ríos González, Tomás A. & Aguirre, Yusseff P., 2025, The Diptera of Panama. II. A first benchmark for the family Chironomidae, Zootaxa 5613 (2), pp. 201-240 : 225

Genus Metriocnemus Wulp, 1874

A genus of ~75 named species that occur in all zoogeographical regions except Antarctica and Oceania. Three subgenera are recognized, namely Metriocnemus s. str.; Crymaleomyia Ashe et O’Connor, 2000 ; and Inermipupa Langton et Cobo, 1997 (see Ashe & O’Connor 2012). A review of the genus was given by Saether (1995). The larvae occur in mosses, phytotelmata, springs, ditches, streams, and lakes and a few species are hygropetric ( Andersen et al. 2013).