Cladopelma Kieffer (Fig. 76)

Head capsule light, greyish with brownish patch on submentum, occipital margin dark brown. Antenna with 5 segments, premandible bifid. Dorsal tooth on mandible absent, 1–2 flat inner teeth present. Mentum with usually double median tooth (or at least notched medially) and 7 pairs of lateral teeth. Outermost lateral teeth set forward in relation to slope of remaining lateral teeth, while 5 th and 7 th lateral are short and the 6 th lateral is taller and broader. Ventromental plates broad, with fine striation distinct at base, anterior margin often crenulated.

Remarks: Mentum with double median tooth and more or less separated group of outer lateral teeth is distinctive for Cladopelma . Cryptotendipes and Microchironomus have a similar pattern of the lateral teeth, however median tooth is distinctly trifid in Microchironomus while single in Cryptotendipes; if laterally notched it may appear trifid but the mentum is much steeper than in Cladopelma .

Subfossil remains were recorded from two dystrophic lakes situated in the forest zone of the Tatra Mts.

One morphotype was recognized (Brooks et al. 2007).