Prosimuliini is a

tribe The term tribe is used in many different contexts to refer to a category of human social group. The predominant worldwide usage of the term in English is in the discipline of anthropology. This definition is contested, in part due to confl ...

black flies A black fly or blackfly (sometimes called a buffalo gnat, turkey gnat, or white socks) is any member of the family Simuliidae of the Culicomorpha infraorder. It is related to the Ceratopogonidae, Chironomidae, and Thaumaleidae. Over 2,200 speci ...

. It contains over 140 living species, with more than a half of them in the genus ''

Prosimulium ''Prosimulium'' is a genus of black flies (insects in the family Simuliidae). There are at least 110 described species in ''Prosimulium''. See also * List of Prosimulium species This is a list of 111 species in the genus ''Prosimulium''. ...

''. There are 6 living

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, and 2 genera that are only known from

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fossils.

Living genera

*'' Gymnopais'' Stone, 1949 *'' Helodon'' Enderlein, 1921 **Subgenus'' Distosimulium'' Peterson, 1970 **Subgenus'' Helodon'' Enderlein, 1921 **Subgenus'' Parahelodon'' Peterson, 1970 *'' Levitinia'' Chubareva & Petrova, 1981 *''

'' Roubaud, 1906 *'' Twinnia'' Stone & Jamnback, 1955 *'' Urosimulium'' Contini, 1963

Fossil genera

*'' Kovalevimyia'' Kalugina, 1991 *'' Simulimima'' Kalugina, 1985

References

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