| Simuliini | |
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| Simulium spp. | |
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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| Genera | |
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| Synonyms | |
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
- 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
- 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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