Prosimuliini

Life-forms

Superregnum: Eukaryota
Cladus: Unikonta
Cladus: Opisthokonta
Cladus: Holozoa
Regnum: Animalia
Subregnum: Eumetazoa
Cladus: Bilateria
Cladus: Nephrozoa
Cladus: Protostomia
Cladus: Ecdysozoa
Cladus: Panarthropoda
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Hexapoda
Classis: Insecta
Cladus: Dicondylia
Subclassis: Pterygota
Cladus: Metapterygota
Infraclassis: Neoptera
Cladus: Eumetabola
Cladus: Endopterygota
Superordo: Panorpida
Cladus: Antliophora
Ordo: Diptera
Subordo: Nematocera
Infraordo: Culicomorpha
Superfamilia: Chironomoidea

Familia:Simuliidae
Subfamilia: Simuliinae
Tribus: Prosimuliini
Genera: Araucnephia - Araucnephioides - Cnephia - Cnesia - Cnesiamima - Crozetia - Ectemnia - Gigantodax - Greniera - Gymnopais - Levitinia - Lutzsimulium - Mayacnephia - Metacnephia - Paracnephia - Paraustrosimulium - Pedrowygomyia - Prosimulium - Stegopterna - Sulcicnephia - Tlalocomyia - Twinnia
Name

Prosimuliini Enderlein, 1921
References

Enderlein, G. 1921. Beiträge zur Kenntnis außereuropäischer Ichneumoniden. V. Entomologische Zeitung Stettin 82: 3–45. full article (Zobodat). Reference page.
Craig, D.A., Moulton, J.K. & Currie, D.C. 2017. Taxonomic revision of Paraustrosimulium Wygodzinsky & Coscarón: reassignment of Austrosimulium colboi and description of P. obcidens n. sp. from Western Australia. Zootaxa 4337(4): 451–492. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4337.4.1. Full article (PDF) Reference page.

Prosimuliini is a tribe of black flies. It contains over 140 living species, with more than a half of them in the genus Prosimulium. There are 6 living genera, and 2 genera that are only known from Cretaceous fossils.[1]
Living genera

Gymnopais Stone, 1949
Helodon Enderlein, 1921
Subgenus Distosimulium Peterson, 1970
Subgenus Helodon Enderlein, 1921
Subgenus Parahelodon Peterson, 1970
Levitinia Chubareva & Petrova, 1981
Prosimulium Roubaud, 1906
Twinnia Stone & Jamnback, 1955
Urosimulium Contini, 1963

Fossil genera

Kovalevimyia Kalugina, 1991
Simulimima Kalugina, 1985

References

Peter H. Adler & Roger W. Crosskey (2009). "World Blackflies (Diptera: Simuliidae): A Comprehensive Revision of the Taxonomic and Geographical Inventory": 109.