Simuliini

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: Simuliini
Genera: Austrosimulium - Simulium

Name

Simuliini Newman, 1834: 387
References

Newman, E. 1834. Attempted division of British insects into natural orders. The Entomological Magazine 2: 379–431. BHL.

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

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