Cryptochironomus Kieffer, 1918

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 : 209

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).