chironomid

noun

1. Any of the non-biting midges or Chironomidae, a family of true flies within the order Diptera.

   “Fossil chironomids have proven useful as indicators of climatic change.”

   “Devils Lake is where I began my career as a limnologist in 1964, studying the lake’s neotenic salamanders and chironomids, or midge flies. […] The Devils Lake Basin is an endorheic, or closed, basin covering about 9,800 square kilometers in northeastern North Dakota.”