- Cnephia
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Cnephia Scientific classification Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Arthropoda Class: Insecta Order: Diptera Family: Simuliidae Subfamily: Simuliinae Tribe: Simuliini Genus: Cnephia
Enderlein, 1921Type species C. pecuarum
Riley, 1887Species See Text
Synonyms - Astega Enderlein, 1930
Cnephia is a genus of 9 species of black flies, They are distributed in scattered locations across the Northern Hemisphere, from Ukraine to Eastern Siberia, and some parts of North America.[1]
Species
- C. angarensis Rubtsov, 1956
- C. chaurensis Yankovsky, 2000
- C. dacotensis (Dyar & Shannon, 1927)
- C. eremites Shewell, 1952
- C. intermedia Rubtsov, 1956
- C. ornithophilia Davies, Peterson & Wood, 1962
- C. pallipes (Fries, 1824)
- C. pecuarum (Riley, 1887)
- C. toptchievi Yankovsky, 1996
Literature cited
- ^ Peter H. Adler & Roger W. Crosskey (2009) (in English). World Blackflies (Diptera: Simuliidae): A Comprehensive Revision of the Taxonomic and Geographical Inventory. pp. 109. http://www.nhm.ac.uk/research-curation/research/projects/blackflies/SimulidIntro.html.
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