Litocladius
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{{Taxobox
| name = ''Litocladius''
| regnum = [[Animal]]ia
| phylum = [[Arthropod]]a
| subphylum = [[Hexapoda]]
| classis = [[Insect]]a
| subclassis = [[Pterygota]]
| infraclassis = [[Neoptera]]
| superordo = [[Endopterygota]]|
| ordo = [[Fly|Diptera]]
| subordo = [[Nematocera]]
| infraordo = [[Culicomorpha]]
| superfamilia = [[Chironomoidea]]
| familia = [[Chironomidae]]
| genus = '''''Litocladius'''''
| genus_authority = [[Trond Andersen (entomologist)|Andersen]], [[Humberto Fonseca Mendes|Mendes]] & [[Ole Anton Sæther|Sæther]] [[2004]]
}}
'''''Litocladius''''' is a genus of [[Chironomidae|chironomid]] [[fly|flies]] that belongs to the subfamily [[Orthocladiinae]] and is composed of a single species, ''Litocladius mateusi'' Mendes, Andersen & Sæther (2004) described from [[Brazil]]. Male, female, and [[pupa]] are described. This species is so far known only from the [[Type locality (biology)|type locality]] and [[type material]].
The types of the only known species are housed in São Paulo, Brazil and Bergen, Norway.
The [[etymology]] of the genus is from the Greek "litos", meaning plain, simple, referring to the reduced pupa and the shape of the [[inferior volsella]]; "cladius" stands as a common ending among [[orthoclads]].
The only pupa recorded was found living among mosses on tree trunks, no data on the [[larvae]] are available so far.
==References==
*Mendes, H.F., Andersen, T. & Sæther, O.A. (2004) A review of ''Antillocladius'' Sæther, 1981; ''Compterosmittia'' Sæther, 1981 and ''Litocladius'' new genus (Chironomidae, Orthocladiinae). Zootaxa 594, 1–82.
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[[Category:Chironomidae]]
[[Category:Flies]]