J

a. ? JANGCHUNGENSIS
b. Not a typical CHIRONOMUS.
c. REE 2012: 242 - as CHIRONOMUS, on basis of adult male.
d. ASIA - Jang-chung-dong, KOREA.
e.

a. $ JANUARIUS
b. Nomen dubium - MARTIN 1966B: 21.
c. SKUSE 1889A: 239 - as CHIRONOMUS, on basis of adult male.
d. AUSTRALIA - Wheeny Creek, N.S.W.
e. KIEFFER 1906C: 19; 1917A: 206. FREEMAN 1961A: 685 - as syn. ALTERNANS CRANSTON & MARTIN 1989: 268 - as Nomen dubium. BUGLEDICH, CRANSTON & MARTIN 1999: 130 - as Incertae sedis; MARTIN (http://www.chironomidae.net/Martin/AustChironfiles/jantype.html) - redecription of type.

a. * JAPONICUS (JAPONICUM)
b. POLYPEDILUM - SASA & YAMAMOTO 1977A: 313.
c. TOKUNAGA 1938A: 333 - as CHIRONOMUS (POLYPEDILUM), on basis of adult male and female.
d. ASIA - Shimogamo, Kyoto, JAPAN.
e.

a. * JAVAE
b. CRYPTOCHIRONOMUS - LENZ 1937B: 10.
c. KIEFFER 1924C: 264 - as CRYPTOCHIRONOMUS.  Transferred to CHIRONOMUS (CRYPTOCHIRONOMUS) by JOHANNSEN 1932B: 529.
d. ASIA, PALAEARCTIC - JAVA; CAROLINE IS.; JAPAN.
e. TOKUNAGA 1964A: 575 - redescription, as CH. (CRYPTOCHIRONOMUS).  SUBLETTE & SUBLETTE 1973B: 403; SASA & HASEGAWA 1983: 323 - as CRYPTOCHIRONOMUS.

a. $ JAVANICUS
b. Invalid name
c. ANDERSEN 1949A: 46 - as mispelling of JAVANUS KIEFFER.
d.
e.

a. $ JAVANUS
b. CHIRONOMUS - SUBLETTE & SUBLETTE 1973B: 402.  Suggested subgenus AUSTROCHIRONOMUS - YAMAMOTO 2002: 144 (not validated).
c. KIEFFER 1924C: 263 - as CHIRONOMUS, on basis of adult male and female.
d. ASIA & ORIENTAL - Buitenzorg, JAVA; MALAYSIA; INDIA.
e. JOHANNSEN 1932B: 536;  LENZ 1937B: 4 - immatures.  CHAUDHURI, DAS & SUBLETTE 1992: 13 - redescription, including immatures.  Many other papers claiming to redescribe C. JAVANUS actually describe C. VITELLINUS Freeman 1961. e.g. TOKUNAGA 1964A: 566  ANDERSEN 1949A: 46 - misspelt as JAVANICUS.  HASHIMOTO, WONGSIRI, WONGSIRI, TIRAWAT, LEWVANICH & YASUMATSU 1981: 7.  SASA & HASEGAWA 1983: 317; HASHIMOTO 1984: 24; ; HASHIMOTO & HASHIMOTO 2018: 519.  ASHE & CRANSTON 1990: 261 - as CHIRONOMUS.  BUGLEDICH, CRANSTON & MARTIN 1999: 118 - as unplaced CHIRONOMUS.

a. * JOHNSONI
b. Nomen nudum of ENDOCHIRONOMUS NIGRICANS - TOWNES 1945A: 64.
c. KIEFFER 1906C: 19 - as new name for ALBIPENNIS JOHNSON 1900A, a Nomen nudum.
d. NEARTIC
e.

a. $ JONI
b. CHIRONOMUS - SPIES & RIESS 1996: 69
c. SPIES & RIESS 1996: 69 - as CHIRONOMUS, and new name for JONMARTINI SUBLETTE & SASA 1994: 32.
d. NEOTROPICAL - Atitlan, Amatitlan & Rincon, GUATEMALA (type in SASA collection, Japan).
e.

a. $1 JONMARTINI
b. CHIRONOMUS - ASHE & CRANSTON 1990: 261.
c. LINDEBERG & WIEDERHOLM 1979A: 103 - as CHIRONOMUS, and new name for NEGLECTUS LINDEBERG.
d. PALEARCTIC - Rockpools at Tvarminne, FINLAND (Types in Zool. Museum, Helsinki Uni. as C. neglectus L.); CANADA, RUSSIA, SWEDEN.
e. KIKNADZE et al. 2016: 235 - cytology.

a. $2 JONMARTINI
b. NEW NAME: JONI - SPIES & REISS 1996: 69.
c. SUBLETTE & SASA 1994: 32 - as CHIRONOMUS, on basis of adult male and female.
d. NEOTROPICAL - Atitlan, Amatitlan & Rincon, GUATEMALA (type in SASA collection, Japan).
e.

a. * JUCUNDUS (JUCUNDUM)
b. TRIBELOS - BECK 1976: 51.
c. WALKER 1848A: 16 - as CHIRONOMUS.
d. NEARCTIC - Georgia, U.S.A.
e. TOWNES 1945A: 70; 1952A: 58; ROBACK 1953C: 129; 1957C: 122 - as TANYTARSUS (TRIBELOS).  BECK 1961A: 125; SUBLETTE & SUBLETTE 1965A: 170 - as CHIRONOMUS (TRIBELOS).  SIMPSON & BODE 1980: 85; ASHE 1983: 53 (generic position); GRODHAUS 1987: 212 - as TRIBELOS.

a. * JUNCI
b. MICROPSECTRA - SAEWEDAL 1976A: 131.
c. MEIGEN 1818A: 50 - as CHIRONOMUS.
d. PALAEARCTIC - Type locality not given; GREENLAND; ASIA.
e. KIEFFER 1906C: 30 - as TANYTARSUS.  ASHE & CRANSTON 1990: 325 - as MICROPSECTRA.

a. * JUNCICOLA
b. SYN: GLYPTOTENDIPES GRIPEKOVENI - CONTRERAS-LICHTENBERG 2000.
c. KIEFFER 1913A: 24 - as TENDIPES.
d. PALAEARCTIC - Westphalia, GERMANY.
e. GRIPEKOVEN 1913A: 60 - larva as TENDIPES.  LENZ 1921A: 161(larva); GOETGHEBUER 1928A: 43 - as GLYPTOTENDIPES.  CHERNOVSKII 1949B. THIENEMANN 1954A: 306 - as ENDOCHIRONOMUS.  GOETGHEBUER 1937-54(13c): 15 as syn. G. PALLENS (Note GRIPEKOVEN larva is not GLYPTOTENDIPES - p 17).  ASHE & CRANSTON 1990: 2874 - as ?syn. G. PALLENS.

a. * JUNICOLA
b. Invalid name.
c. KIEFFER. Misspelling of JUNCICOLA.
d. PALEARCTIC - GERMANY.
e.

a. # JUNIPERINUS (JUNIPERINA)
b.
c. LINNAEUS 17 : as TIPULA.  Transferred to CHIRONOMUS by FABRICIUS 1805A: 47.
d. PALEARCTIC
e. LATRIELLE - as OLIGOTROPHUS.  MEIGEN - as CECIDOMYIA JUNIPERINA.

K

a. $1 KABARDENSIS
b. CHIRONOMUS, but nomen nudem as no types designated.
c. POLUKONOVA & KARMOKOV 2012: 11 - on basis of larva?
d. PALEARCTIC - Savropol Territory, CAUCASUS.
e.

a. * KANAZAWAI
b. probably EINFELDIA based on the illustrations of male hypopygium.
c. YAMAMOTO 1996: 241 - as EINFELDIA KANAZAWAI from a single adult male specimen.
d. ASIA - Kampira, Iriomotejima Is., Ryukyus, JAPAN (Type in Osaka Museum of Natural Historiy).
e. YAMAMOTO, YAMAMOTO & KIMURA 2015: 110 - as CHIRONOMUS (CHIRONOMUS) "OCELLATA-GROUP".

a. *1 KARAFUTONIS
b. Nomen dubium in CHIRONOMINI - ASHE & CRANSTON 1990: 318.
c. MATSUMURA 1911A: 61 - as CHIRONOMUS.
d. JAPAN - Toyohara, SAKHALIN (RUSSIAN).
e.

a. *2 KARAFUTONIS
b. NEW NAME MICROTENDIPES MASAAKI - ASHE (in ASHE & CRANSTON) 1990: 289.
c. TOKUNAGA 1940B: 295 - as CHIRONOMUS (MICROTENDIPES).  JUNIOR HOMONYM C. KARAFUTONIS MATSUMURA 1911.
d. JAPAN - Toyohara, SAKHALIN (RUSSIAN).
e.

a. $ KARENSIS
b. Nomen nudum. SYN: ANONYMUS - WUELKER, SUBLETTE, MORATH & MARTIN 1989:130.
c. LAUFER, VAFOPOULOU-MANDALOS, KULIAWAT & GUNDLING 1982: 329 - Chromosome photo.
d. NEARCTIC - Houston, TEXAS, U.S.A.
e.

a. * KEMPI
b. Nomen dubium - SUBLETTE & SUBLETTE 1973B: 420.
c. KIEFFER 1913E: 147 - as POLYPEDILUM. Transferred to CHIRONOMUS (POLYPEDILUM) by EDWARDS 1932C: 183.
d. ASIA - Puri, Orissa, INDIA.
e.

a. KHASIANA
b. CHIRONOMUS - is this a nomen nudum?
c.
d. ASIA - INDIA; Meghalaya, INDIA.
e. RAGHUVARMAN 1997: 23 - puffing in polytene chromosomes (unillustrated).

a. * KIEFFERIANUS
b. CRYPTOCHIRONOMUS - FITTKAU, SCHLEE & REISS 1967A: 371.
c. GOETGHEBUER 1937-54(13c): 39 - as TENDIPES (CRYPTOCHIRONOMUS); new name for TRICOLOR KIEFFER 1929A.
d. PALEARCTIC - GERMANY.
e. ASHE & CRANSTON 1990: 272 - as Nomen Dubium in CRYPTOCHRONOMUS.

a. $1 KIIENSIS
b. SYN: STRIATIPENNIS - PRAMUAL, SIMWISAT & MARTIN 2015 (in press).
c. TOKUNAGA 1936C: 77 - as CHIRONOMUS, on basis of adult male.
d. ASIA - Seto, Wakayama Prefecture, JAPAN; KOREA; TAIWAN.
e. HASHIMOTO 1977A: 83; HASHIMOTO 1977B: 83; SASA & YAMAMOTO 1977A: 311.  SASA 1978A: 15 - redescription incl. immatures (C. STRIATIPENNIS?).  HECKMAN 1979: - as CALYPTERUS.  REE & KIM 1981A: 138; HASHIMOTO, WONGSIRI, TIRAWAT, LEWVANICH & YASUMATSU 1981: 6; SASA & HASEGAWA 1983: 318 (possibly mixture of $1 KIIENSIS and $2 KIIENSIS); ASHE & CRANSTON 1990: 262.  MAEDA & YANO 1988: 31 - biology.  SASA, KITAMI & SUZUKI 2001: - description of a pale form (C. PALLIDINUBECULOSUS?).  Many of these probably refer to the more broadly distributed C. STRIATIPENNIS, which is here considered to be $1 KIIENSIS unless some definitive evidence is obtained as to the identity of TOKUNAGA's type specimens.

a. $2 KIIENSIS
b. CHIRONOMUS.  True identity not known.
c. GenBank mitochondrial COI sequences (AB740240, AB838642, AB838644, JQ350720)
d. ASIA - JAPAN (Yogoiri headrace, Miho, Ibaraki) and KOREA
e. It is strongly recommended that the name C. kiiensis should not be applied to this taxon as it will only add further confusion to the existing literature where it is not known which species has been studied.  PRAMUAL, SIMWISAT & MARTIN 2015 (in press) as ÔC. kiiensisÕ.

a. $ KIKNADZEAE
b. SYN: MURATENSIS - KIKNADZE, ISTOMINA, GOLYGINA & GUNDERINA 2016: 281.
c. MICHAILOVA & BELYANINA 1984: 79 - AS CHIRONOMUS.
d. PALAEARCTIC - Inja R., nr. Novosibirsk & Ob Sea, U.S.S.R. (now RUSSIA).
e. NESTEROVA 1967A: 525 - cytology as C. PLUMOSUS karyotype 2.

a. * KIKUYUI
b. CRYPTOCHIRONOMUS - FREEMAN & CRANSTON 1980A: 189.
c. KIEFFER 1913F: 18.
d. AFRICA - Kijabe, KENYA.
e. FREEMAN 1957A: 405 - as possible syn. LINDNERI.

a. $ KIRKLANDI
b. CHIRONOMUS
c. SUBLETTE 1969A: 119 - as CHIRONOMUS..
d. NEARCTIC - Rita Blanca Lake Beds, Channing, TEXAS (Fossil deposits).
e.

a. $ KOCHIANUS
b. SYN: RIPARIUS - EDWARDS 1922A: 198.
c. KIEFFER (In KIEFFER & THIENEMANN 1919A): 44 - as CHIRONOMUS.
d. PALAEARCTIC (POLAR) - Lofoten, Svolvaer, NORWAY (June).
e. GOETGHEBUER 1937-54(13c): 30 - as TENDIPES.  FITTKAU & REISS 1978A: 406 - as syn. THUMMI.

a. # KOENIGI
b. Nomen dubium in TANYTARSINI - ASHE & CRANSTON 1990: 352.
c. KIEFFER & LUNDBECK 1911A: 274 - as CHIRONOMUS (PROCHIRONOMUS).
d. PALAEARCTIC (POLAR) - Bear Island, SPITZBERGEN.
e. ZOOLOGICAL RECORD 1911: 354.

a. $ KOMENSIS
b. Nomen dubium in CHIRONOMUS - ASHE & CRANSTON 1990: 267.
c. ZVEREVA 1950A: 263 - as TENDIPES, from larva.
d. PALAEARCTIC - Pechora, at village of Bugaevo, U.S.S.R.
e. SHILOVA 1958C: (370) - as TENDIPES.

a. * KRIBIICOLA
b. DICROTENDIPES - FREEMAN & CRANSTON 1980A: 190.
c. KEIFFER 1923C: 152 - as PHYTOCHIRONOMUS.
d. AFRICA - Kribi, CAMEROUN (Type probably lost).
e. FREEMAN 1957A: 368 - as CHIRONOMUS (DICROTENDIPES).  EPLER 1987A: 27 (incl. immatures) - as DICROTENDIPES.

a. * KROGERUSI
b. SYN: CLADOPELMA VIRIDULA - ASHE & CRANSTON 1990: 269.
c. STORÅ 1939A: 27 - as CHIRONOMUS & var. of VIRIDULA.
d. PALEARCTIC - Ks. Kuusamo; Isosuo, Reisermoor, FINLAND.
e.

a. * KRUGLOVICOLA
b. ?SYN: EINFELDIA CARBONARIA - ASHE & CRANSTON 1990: 277.
c. LIPINA 1939A: 99 - AS BENTHALIA.
d. PALEARCTIC - Zaluchie Sapropel Station, Lake Kolomnc, U.S.S.R.
e.

a. * KRUSEMANI
b. CLADOPELMA - SÆTHER 1971A: 350 (as CRYPTOCLADOPELMA); 1977B: 84 (syn. with CLADOPELMA).
c. GOETGHEBUER 1935D: 416 - as CHIRONOMUS (HARNISCHIA).
d. PALEARCTIC - Overmeire, BELGIUM.
e. GOETGHEBUER 1937-54(13c): 48 - as T. (HARNISCHIA).  FITTKAU, SCHLEE & REISS 1967A: 372 - as HARNISCHIA.  ASHE & CRANSTON 1990: 269 - as CLADOPELMA.

a. * KYOTOENSIS (KYOTOENSE)
b. POLYPEDILUM - TOKUNAGA 1959; 1963: 645.
c. TOKUNAGA 1938A: 328 - as CHIRONOMUS (POLYPEDILUM) on basis of all life stages.
d. ASIA - Kitashirakawa, Kyoto, JAPAN.
e. SASA & YAMAMOTO 1977A: 313 - as POLYPEDILUM.