Taxonavigation

Familia: Simuliidae
Subfamiliae (2): Parasimuliinae - Simuliinae

Name

Simuliidae Newman, 1834: 387

References

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

• Adler, P.H. & Crosskey, R.W. 2015. Cytotaxonomy of the Simuliidae (Diptera): a systematic and bibliographic conspectus. Zootaxa 3975(1): 1–139. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3975.1.1 Preview (PDF). ISBN 978-1-77557-729-4 (paperback); ISBN 978-1-77557-730-0 (Online edition). Reference page. 
• Belqat, B.; Adler, P.H.; Crosskey, R.W. 2011: Faunistic and bibliographical inventory of the blackflies (Diptera: Simuliidae) of Morocco. Zootaxa, 2829: 46–58. Preview

• Cherairia, M.; Adler, P.H.; Samraoui, B. 2014: Biodiversity and bionomics of the black flies (Diptera: Simuliidae) of northeastern Algeria. Zootaxa 3796(1): 166–174. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3796.1.8 Reference page. 

• Craig, D.A.; Porch, N. 2013: Subfossils of extinct and extant species of Simuliidae (Diptera) from Austral and Cook Islands (Polynesia): anthropogenic extirpation of an aquatic insect? Zootaxa 3641(4): 448–462. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3641.4.10 Reference page. 

• Craig, D.A.M., Currie, D.C. & Moulton, J.K. 2018. Reassignment of Western Australia Paracnephia gladiator Moulton & Adler to a new genus, Bunyipellum (Diptera: Simuliidae). Zootaxa 4375(3): 341–357. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4375.3.3 Full article (PDF) Reference page. 
• Crosskey, R.W.; Howard, T.M. 2004: A revised taxonomic and geographical inventory of world blackflies (DipteraSimuliidae).
• Guo, X.-X. ; Y.-M. Zhang ; J.-Y. An ; G.-L. Zhang ; Z. Zheng ; Y.-D. Dong, & T.-Y. Zhao, 2008: Observations on the biting activity of black flies in Beiwan area, Zinjiang, China, with descriptions of two new species (Diptera: Simuliidae). Oriental insects 42: 341–348

• Hernández-Triana, L.M. 2015. DNA barcoding of Neotropical black flies (Diptera: Simuliidae): Species identification and discovery of cryptic diversity in Mesoamerica. Zootaxa 3936(1): 93–114. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3936.1.5 . Reference page. 

• Khazeni, A. et al. 2013: The black flies (Diptera: Simuliidae) of Iran. Zootaxa 3694(1): 67–74. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3694.1.5 Reference page. 

• Mantilla, J.S. et al. 2013: Two new species of black Flies (Diptera: Simuliidae) from the High Andes of Colombia. Zootaxa 3700(3): 423–434. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3700.3.6 Reference page. 

• Shelley, A.J.; Hernández, L.M.; Penn, M. 2002: A biosystematic revision of the blackflies (Diptera: Simuliidae) of Belize, Central America. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History), entomology 71(2): 135-271. DOI: 10.1017/S0968045402000056 BHL Reference page. 

• Şirin, U.D. & Adler, P.H. 2015. Chromosomal and morphological taxonomy of a new species of black fly in the genus Metacnephia (Diptera: Simuliidae) from Western Anatolia, Turkey. Zootaxa 4048(2): 269–280. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4048.2.7 . Preview (PDF) Reference page. 

• Şirin, U.D., Çalışkan, H. & Şahin, Y. 2015. Black flies (Diptera: Simuliidae) of Turkish Thrace, with a new record for Turkey. Biodiversity Data Journal 3: e4834. DOI: 10.3897/BDJ.3.e4834 Reference page. 

Vernacular names

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