Simuliini
The Simuliini is a tribe of black flies that contains over 2,000 species, with more than 1,800 in the genus Simulium. There are 19 living genera, and three genera only known from Cretaceous fossils.
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Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Clade: | Pancrustacea |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Diptera |
| Family: | Simuliidae |
| Subfamily: | Simuliinae |
| Tribe: | Simuliini Latreille, 1802 |
| Type genus | |
| Simulium Latreille, 1802
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The Simuliini is a tribe of black flies that contains over 2,000 species, with more than 1,800 in the genus Simulium. There are 19 living genera, and three genera only known from Cretaceous fossils.[1]
Living genera
[edit]- Araucnephia Wygodzinsky & Coscarón, 1973
- Araucnephioides Wygodzinsky & Coscarón, 1973
- Austrosimulium Tonnoir, 1925
- Cnephia Enderlein, 1921
- Cnesia Enderlein, 1934
- Cnesiamima Wygodzinsky & Coscarón, 1973
- Crozetia Davies, 1965
- Ectemnia Enderlein, 1930
- Gigantodax Enderlein, 1925
- Greniera Doby & David, 1959
- Lutzsimulium D’Andretta & D’Andretta, 1947
- Metacnephia Crosskey, 1969
- Paracnephia Rubtsov, 1962
- Paraustrosimulium Wygodzinsky & Coscarón, 1962
- Pedrowygomyia Coscarón & Miranda-Esquivel, 1998
- Simulium Latreille, 1802
- Stegopterna Enderlein, 1930
- Sulcicnephia Rubtsov, 1971
- Tlalocomyia Wygodzinsky & Díaz Nájera, 1970
Fossil genera
[edit]- Archicnephia Currie & Grimaldi, 2000
- Baisomyia Kalugina, 1991
- Gydarina Kalugina, 1991
Literature cited
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Peter H. Adler & Roger W. Crosskey (2009). "World Blackflies (Diptera: Simuliidae): A Comprehensive Revision of the Taxonomic and Geographical Inventory": 109.
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