Protanypus Kieffer, 1906

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 : 51

Protanypus Kieffer, 1906

Larvae of Protanpus inhabit oligotrophic lakes ( Saether & Andersen 2013). Hershey (1985) reported Protanypus saetheri Wiederholm, 1975 from Toolik Lake, North Slope, where it had at least a three-year life cycle and emerged from June through early July. Saether & Willassen (1985) found Protanypus pseudomorio Makarchenko, 1982 in Feniak Lake, Noatak National Preserve. Larvae of Protanypus are quite common in the lakes of the Alaska Arctic Coastal Plain. In western Central Alaska we collected two larvae from a tributary to the Chilikadrotna River. In Southeast Alaska, we collected a Protanypus larva from Duck Creek in Juneau and a larva from Summit Lake on Prince of Wales Island.