Procladius Skuse, 1889

Genus Procladius Skuse, 1889 View in CoL

The second most speciose genus of Tanypodinae , with ~70 named species that occur in all zoogeographical regions except Antarctica. Four subgenera are recognized, namely Procladius s. str., Holotanypus Roback, 1982 , Laurotanypus Oliveira, Messias et Silva-Vasconcellos, 1992 , and Psilotanypus Kieffer, 1906 (see Ashe & O’Connor 2009; Dantas & Hamada 2018). The larvae prefer muddy substrate of standing or slow-flowing water bodies, especially ponds and small lakes, but a few also inhabit the profundal zone of large, deep lakes ( Cranston & Epler 2013).