Chironomids are generally a difficult group to ID. Feel free to tag me for help or information regarding Chironomids.

I generally avoid IDing uncropped observations containing different species in frame if its possible to crop them.

To increase the usefulness and to allow research use of your observations on INaturalist. One can set the observation license to either No Copyright, Attribution, or Attribution Non Commercial. This will allow your observations to be exported to the GBIF. Observations and images under other licenses can not really be used by researchers without explicit permission. More info here.

Some Resources for Chironomid Identification.

North America

The Nearctic Species of Tendipedini (Chironomini) 1945

Adults of the Subfamily Tanypodinae in North America 1971

North American species of the genus Chironomus 2024

Oceania

The Tanypodinae of Australia II 1982

New Zealand and Pacific Chironomus species 2024

Australian Chironomus species 2024

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