Halocladius is a genus of halophilic, non-biting midges in the subfamily Orthocladiinae of the bloodworm family (Chironomidae). They inhabit seashores and saline inland waters of the Northern Hemisphere. Wing length is . Two subgenera have been described: Halocladius and Psammocladius.
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Halocladius is a genus of halophilic, non-biting midges in the subfamily Orthocladiinae of the bloodworm family (Chironomidae). They inhabit seashores and saline inland waters of the Northern Hemisphere. Wing length is . Two subgenera have been described: Halocladius and Psammocladius.
==Species== There are five or six species: Halocladius braunsi (Goetghebuer, 1942) Halocladius fucicola (Edwards, 1926) Halocladius mediterraneus Hirvenoja, 1973 Halocladius millenarius (Santos Abreu, 1918) Halocladius variabilis (Stæger, 1839) Halocladius varians (Stæger, 1839)
Discovered by embedding cosine similarity (sentence-transformers MiniLM, 384-dim).