Cricotopus elegans

Cricotopus elegans
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Diptera
Family:	Chironomidae
Genus:	Cricotopus
Species:	C. elegans
Binomial name
	Cricotopus elegans; Johannsen, 1943
Synonyms
	Cricotopus (Cricotopus) elegans

Cricotopus elegans is a species of non-biting midges in the subfamily Orthocladiinae of the bloodworm family Chironomidae. It is found in Europe.

It mines in the aquatic Potamogeton.^[1]^[2]

References[]

^ Mutualism between the midge Cricotopus and the alga Nostoc. EM Brock - Ecology, 1960 - Wiley Online Library
^ Biology of certain Chironomidae reared from Potamogeton. CO Berg - Ecological Monographs, 1950

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