The chironomid midge Micropsectra manistee Taber is described from the western Lower Peninsula of Michigan. Numerous adult males and females were collected in a Malaise trap in late April in a paper birch-red maple-black ash-black cherry woods. The new species belongs to a scarcely studied genus but appears to be most closely related to the flies of the Micropsectra recurvata Goetghebuer species group as indicated by male terminalia.