Apedilum is a genus of non-biting midges of the bloodworm family Chironomidae. The genus was previously considered a junior synonym of Paralauterborniella, but was restored as a separate genus by J. H. Epler (1988) for the species A. elachistus and A. subcinctum.
Apedilum is a genus of non-biting midges of the bloodworm family Chironomidae. The genus was previously considered a junior synonym of Paralauterborniella, but was restored as a separate genus by J. H. Epler (1988) for the species A. elachistus and A. subcinctum.
==Species== A. elachistus Townes, 1945 A. griseistriatum (Edwards, 1931) A. subcinctum Townes, 1945
Discovered by embedding cosine similarity (sentence-transformers MiniLM, 384-dim).