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 confli ...
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
The Cretaceous ( ) is a geological period that lasted from about 145 to 66 million years ago (Mya). It is the third and final period of the Mesozoic Era, as well as the longest. At around 79 million years, it is the longest geological period of ...
fossils.
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Living genera
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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
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Urosimulium''
Contini, 1963
Fossil genera
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Kovalevimyia''
Kalugina, 1991
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Simulimima''
Kalugina, 1985
References
Simuliidae
Nematocera tribes
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