based on a single species, Q. lii Wang & Saether, 1998, from a mountainous area in the Henan Province in Palaearctic China. The male imagines of Qiniella are separable from other Orthocladiinae except Krenosmittia Thienemann & Kruger, 1939, by having bare eyes, wing and squama; extended costa; strongly developed virga; and by lacking scutal tubercle, hump or microtrichial tuft. They can be separated from Krenosmittia by having a trifid gonostylus. When visiting the Zoologische Staatssammlung Munchen, the first author found specimens, which proved to belong to Qiniella. Both samples are from the Oriental biogeographical region; one was taken in Sabah, Malaysia and the other in northern Thailand. The immature stages of the genus are unknown and nothing specific is known about the species’ ecology. However, the specimen from Sabah was collected in a special study of rainforest canopy fauna (M. Spies pers. comm.). Wang & Saether (1998) used two variant original spellings of the genus name: Qiniella and Quiniella. Wang (2000), in his checklist of Chinese chironomids, spelled the name Qiniella, and has thus selected the correct original spelling according to Article 24.2.4 of the Code of Zoological Nomenclature (International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature, 1999). METHODS AND MATERIAL