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Simuliini

Simuliini
Onchocerca volvulus emerging from a black fly.jpg
S. yahense
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Diptera
Suborder:
Superfamily: Chironomoidea
Family: Simuliidae
Subfamily: Simuliinae
Tribe: Simuliini
Latreille, 1802
Type genus
Simulium
Latreille, 1802
Genera

See text.

Synonyms
  • Nevermanniini Enderlein, 1921
  • Wilhelmiini Baranov, 1926
  • Ectemniinae Enderlein, 1930
  • Stegopterninae Enderlein, 1930
  • Cnesiinae Enderlein, 1934
  • Friesiini Enderlein, 1936
  • Odagmiini Enderlein, 1936
  • Austrosimuliini Smart, 1945
  • Cnephiini Grenier & Rageau, 1960
  • Eusimuliini Rubtsov, 1974

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The Simuliini are a tribe of black flies, and contains huge species numbers, mostly in the genus Simulium. There are 19 living genera, and three genera only known from Cretaceous fossils.


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