Sensu Chernovskij, 1961
Body
Small to medium sized larvae 7 mm long. Living larvae deep red. No lateral and ventral tubules (Chernovskij, 1961; Wiederholm, 1983).
Head
Antenna
The antenna consists of 6 segments. The blade is shorter than the flagellum. Lauterborn organs alternate on the second and third segment.
Mentum
The mentum has 4 median teeth and 6 pairs of lateral teeth. The central pair is much larger than the outer pair Paraten conn 3 mentum. The first pair of lateral teeth is small and the second pair is very large. The ventromental plates are very wide and much wider than the mentum.
Differential characteristics
Paratendipes, Omisus and Stictochironomus have 4 median mental teeth and alternating Lauterborn organs. The middle pairs of mental teeth in Omisus Omisus mentum and Stictochironomus Sticto mentum normal is smaller than the outer pairs. In Paratendipes the middle pairs is equal to or larger than the outer pairs Paratend albi mentum9.
Paratendipes connectens 3 Lipina can be separated from the other Paratendipes by the median pair of mental teeth much larger than the neighbouring teeth.