Camptocladius, Van der Wulp, 1874

Namayandeh, Armin, Hudson, Patrick L., Bogan, Daniel L. & Hudson, John P., 2024, Chironomidae (Diptera: Insecta) of Alaska, USA, with descriptions of new species and a checklist, Zootaxa 5511 (1), pp. 1-95 : 54

Camptocladius v. d. Wulp, 1874

Camptocladius stercorarius (De Geer, 1776) is the sole species of the genus and is widely distributed in the Holarctic. The larvae are terrestrial, inhabiting cow dung and potted plant soils. The only record in Alaska comes from Watson et al. (1966), who reported C. stercorarius from Ogoturuk Valley in Western Alaska. Malloch (1915) mentions an Alaska record of the species without a location.