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Cnephia

Cnephia is a genus of 9 species of black flies. They are distributed in scattered locations across the Northern Hemisphere, from Ukraine to Eastern Siberia, and some parts of North America.

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Cnephia
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Clade: Pancrustacea
Class: Insecta
Order: Diptera
Family: Simuliidae
Tribe: Simuliini
Genus: Cnephia
Enderlein, 1921
Type species
C. pecuarum
Riley, 1887
Species

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Synonyms

Cnephia is a genus of 9 species of black flies. They are distributed in scattered locations across the Northern Hemisphere, from Ukraine to Eastern Siberia, and some parts of North America.1

Species

  • C. angarensis Rubtsov, 1956
  • C. chaurensis Yankovsky, 2000
  • C. dacotensis (Dyar & Shannon, 1927)
  • C. eremites Shewell, 1952
  • C. intermedia Rubtsov, 1956
  • C. ornithophilia Davies, Peterson & Wood, 1962
  • C. pallipes (Fries, 1824)
  • C. pecuarum (Riley, 1887)
  • C. toptchievi Yankovsky, 1996

Literature cited

  1. Peter H. Adler & Roger W. Crosskey (2009). "World Blackflies (Diptera: Simuliidae): A Comprehensive Revision of the Taxonomic and Geographical Inventory": 109. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)