Species e.  C. melanescens Keyl, 1962

Adult:

               

Pupa typical of the genus, lightish brown in color.  Length about 8.2-8.3 mm, posterior margin of wing case 3.4-3.5 mm.  Cephalic tubercles about 46-68 µm in length, slightly longer than their basal diameter. Lacking frontal warts and secondary tubercles.
Basal ring of respiratory organ abt 56 x 48 µm; HR about 1.17-2.61; respiratory fibres very narrowed in the middle.
About 51-73 recurved hooks on posterior margin of segment II, hook row approximately half of width of the segment.  Light shagreen pattern particularly near the centerline towards the rear of the segments, small muscle marks on segments I-III; obvious pedes spurii B on segment III and large pedes spurii A on segment IV (about 164 x 101 µm and about 0.19 of segment length); smaller PSA of spines on segment V (abt 88x50 µm) and also on segment VI (abt 75x38 µm).
Posterolateral spurs of segment VIII with 1-2 spines.  Anal lobe fringe with about 75-77 filamentous taeniae on each side, initially in a single row, but increasing to a triple row near the posterior end.

Larva a medium sized (length, female abt 13.-16.5 mm, male 10.3 mm) bathophilus-type with ventral tubules of equal length (ant. 0.8-2.75 mm; post. 0.8-2.73 mm), anal tubules (Fig. g) long, about 6 times longer than wide.
Gular region pale to slightly dark, frontoclypeus pale to slightly darkened.
Mentum (Fig. c) with pointed teeth; 4th laterals hardly reduced (type I); c1 tooth long and narrow with c2 teeth well separated (type III).
Ventromentum (Fig. d) with about 37 - 43 not very obvious striae, VMR about 0.35-0.41.  Pecten epipharyngis (Fig. a) with about 13 - 16 sharp teeth, although those of the Clarence Creek sample were distorted and irregular.
Premandible (Fig. b) with teeth about equally long, unless outer more worn, inner tooth about 1.6-2.0 times the width of outer tooth.
Antenna (Fig. e) with relatively long, narrow basal segment, about 4 (3.9-4.3) times as long as wide; ring organ between a third and half way from base of A1; AR about 1.88-2.4; ratio of segments (in microns) about 183 ; 43 : 13 : 15 : 9.
Distance between antennal bases greater than that between the S4 setae.
Mandible (Fig. f) with 3rd inner tooth only slightly darkened and hardly separated (type II-IIIB), and with about 11-14 furrows on the outer surface at the base.
Ventral tubules of Wisconsin specimens were much longer than those from Omtario.

Cytology:  4 polytene chromosomes with pseudothummi arm combination AE, BF, CD, G.
Arm G generally paired unless heterozygous, with a subterminal nucleolus and 2 Balbiani rings which vary in position depending on the sequence.  No nucleoli in other arms.
Polymorphic at least in arms A, C, and G, as in Palearctic populations, but not necessarily the same inversions.  Arm B of North American specimens is inverted compared to the Palearctic sequence.

Molecular Data: Sequence for mitochondrial COI and CytB of Palearctic material are available in GenBank (accession numbers AF192204, AF192173) and COI of numerous NA specimens is available in GenBank and BOLD.  Barcode sequences of Palearctic specimens differ by 13 bases from those of the Nearctic specimens (below).  This suggests they should be considered to be at least subspecies:

Found: Alberta – Jasper National Park (53.192°N, 65.22°W) (BOLD)
            Ontario – Clarence Creek (45.50°N, 75.22°W), Russell Co.; Dunrobin (45.45°N, 76.00°W), Carleton Co.; Blair Rd Public School,
            Cambridge (43.3718°N, 80.327°W) (BOLD BIOUG13119-C10); rare Charitable Research Reserve (43.3705°N, 80.3641°W),
            Cambridge. (Telfer et al. 2015); Howick Central Public School, Gorrie (43.884°N, 81.053°W) (BOLD BIOUG13107-G1); Saunders
            Secondary School, London (42.947°N, 81.289°W) (BOLD BIOUG13007-E01); Notre Dame Catholic School, Orillia (44.61°N,
           79.461°W) (BOLD BIOUG13120-A02); Thousand Islands Natl. Park (44.453°N, 75.865°W) (BOLD BIOUG20486-E04); Toronto Zoo,
           Rouge National Urban Park (43.822°N, 79.19°W), Toronto (BOLD BIOUG20014-G11).
            Prince Edward Island - Cavendish Grove, Prince Edward Island Natl. Park (46.493°N, 63.394°W) (BOLD BIOUG20330-B12).
            Saskatchewan – Grasslands National Park (49.001°N, 106.557°W) (BOLD)
            Wisconsin – Arboretum, Madison (43.03°N, 89.42°W), Dane Co.; Trout Lake Limnol. Stn. 41.02°N, 89.67°W), Vilas Co.
            Germany: Clausthal (Zellerfeld)(locality of type ) and Duemmer Lake.
            Switzerland and Russia.

Adults and larvae partly described by Wülker et al. (1981), who also described the cytology, and Kiknadze et al. (1991) also redescribed the larva and cytology (with minor errors in arm E); Kiknadze & Broshkov (2009) redescribe the cytology of European and Asian specimens.  Martin (2015) describes morphology, karyotype and Barcode of North American specimens.

            Temporary pools, especially snow melt pools.