''Cnephia'' is a

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of 9

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of black flies. They are distributed in scattered locations across the

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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

Simuliidae Chironomoidea genera Taxa named by Günther Enderlein {{Chironomoidea-stub