Prosimuliini
Tribe of flies
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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]
| Prosimuliini | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Diptera |
| Family: | Simuliidae |
| Subfamily: | Simuliinae |
| Tribe: | Prosimuliini Latreille, 1802 |
| Type genus | |
| Prosimulium Roubaud, 1906 | |
| Genera | |
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| Synonyms | |
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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
