Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Phylum Arthropoda > Subphylum Hexapoda > Class Insecta > Subclass Pterygota > Order Diptera > Suborder Nematocera > Infraorder Culicomorpha > Superfamily Chironomoidea

Simuliidae

Rank: Family
Taxon Status: accepted

Children

Cnephia Enderlein, 1921
Greniera Doby & David, 1959
Metacnephia Crosskey, 1969
Prosimulium Roubaud, 1906
Simulium Latreille, 1802
Stegopterna Enderlein, 1930
Twinnia Stone & Jamnback, 1955

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English-United States: blackflies [Diptera] sources: Charles Hussey

Norwegian Bokmål: knott

Norwegian Nynorsk: knott

Swedish: knott

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Citation

Dr Roger W. Crosskey. Simuliidae. Accessed through: Fauna Europaea at http://www.faunaeur.org/full_results.php?id=11646

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2001-06-28 by & Pape, Dr Thomas Beuk, Dr Paul & by Dr Roger W. Crosskey

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