Diamesinae, Kieffer, 1922

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 : 47

Subfamily Diamesinae

The species of this subfamily are prevalent in clean, cool arctic-alpine waters, but less abundant in the lowlands. We have documented 9 genera and 33 species of Diamesinae in Alaska compared to 7 species from the Southeastern United States ( Hudson et al. 1990). Fifteen of 32 Diamesinae species were collected from the Southcoastal region. The genus Diamesa , with 18 species, contains most of this subfamily’s taxa in Alaska.