Acricotopus

Acricotopus is a genus of non-biting midges of the bloodworm family Chironomidae.

Acricotopus
Head of an Acricotopus longipalpus larva
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Diptera
Family:	Chironomidae
Genus:	Acricotopus Kieffer, 1921

Species

• A. lucens (Zetterstedt, 1850)
• A. simplex Zhang & Wang 2004^[1]
• A. zhalingensis Zhang ^[2]