Simuliidae
Creators: name: Adler, Peter H.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Diptera
Simuliidae

description: SIMULIIDAE
New genera and subgenera
Afrosimulium gen. n. (Southern Africa)
1969, Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) (Entomology) Supplement 14: 30. [Reclassified as subgenus of Simulium by Crosskey, 1988, in Kim & Merritt (eds.), Black Flies... ‘1987’: 444].
Dexomyia subgen. n. of Simulium. (Saint Helena Island)
1969, Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) (Entomology) Supplement 14: 49. [Reclassified as synonym of subgenus Nevermannia by Crosskey in Crosskey & Howard, 1997, A new taxonomic and geographical inventory of world blackflies (Diptera: Simuliidae): 46, 84].
Freemanellum subgen. n. of Simulium. (Tropical and southern Africa)
1969, Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) (Entomology) Supplement 14: 92.
Lewisellum subgen. n. of Simulium. (Tropical Africa)
1969, Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) (Entomology) Supplement 14: 76.
Metacnephia gen. n. (Holarctic realm)
1969, Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) (Entomology) Supplement 14: 26.
Phoretomyia subgen. n. of Simulium. (Tropical Africa)
1969, Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) (Entomology) Supplement 14: 79.
Procnephia subgen. n. of Prosimulium. (Southern and eastern Africa)
1969, Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) (Entomology) Supplement 14: 21.
Xenosimulium subgen. n. of Simulium. (Malagasy subregion)
1969, Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) (Entomology) Supplement 14: 86.
New species
Prosimulium rhodesianum sp. n. (Zimbabwe)
1968, Journal of Natural History 2: 488.
Simulium (Dexomyia) atlanticum sp. n. (Saint Helena Island)
1969, Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) (Entomology) Supplement 14: 52.
Simulium (Eusimulium) flexibranchium sp. n. (Greek Aegean islands)
2001, in Crosskey & Malicky, Studia Dipterologica 8 (1): 122.
Simulium (Eusimulium) loveridgei sp. n. (Saint Helena Island)
1965, Proceedings of the Royal Entomological Society of London (B) 34: 33. [Reassigned to subgenus Nevermannia by Crosskey, 1988, in Kim & Merritt (eds.), Black Flies... ‘1987’: 459].
Simulium (Eusimulium) politum sp. n. (Saint Helena Island)
[1977], Annales Musée Royal de l’Afrique Centrale (Série 8) (Sciences Zoologiques) 215 (1976): 38. [Reassigned to subgenus Nevermannia by Crosskey, 1988, in Kim & Merritt (eds.), Black Flies... ‘1987’: 459]. Simulium (Eusimulium) tenerificum sp. n. (Canary Islands) 1988, Journal of Natural History 22: 338. Simulium (Meilloniellum) yemenense Crosskey & Garms in Crosskey & Buttiker, sp. n. (Yemen, Saudi Arabia) 1982, Fauna of Saudi Arabia 4: 433.
Simulium (Nevermannia) arabicum Crosskey in Crosskey & Buttiker sp. n. (Saudi Arabia and Tropical Africa) 1982, Fauna of Saudi Arabia 4: 425.
Simulium (Nevermannia) paraloutetense sp. n. (Canary Islands)
1988, Journal of Natural History 22: 330. [Reassigned to subgenus Rubzovia by Crosskey in Crosskey & Howard, 1997, A new taxonomic and geographical inventory of world blackflies (Diptera: Simuliidae): 62, 92]. Simulium (Obuchovia) ibericum Crosskey & Santos Gracia sp. n. (Portugal, Spain)
1985, Aquatic Insects 7: 150.
Simulium (Phoretomyia) dukei Lewis, Disney & Crosskey sp. n. (Cameroun)
1969, Bulletin of Entomological Research 59 (1968): 229.
Simulium (Wilhelmia) buettikeri Crosskey & Roberts sp. n. in Crosskey, Büttiker & Roberts (Oman)
1994, Fauna of Saudi Arabia 14: 139.
New names for junior homonyms
Simulium garmsi nom. n. (replacement name for occidentale Freeman & de Meillon, preoccupied)
1969, Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) (Entomology) Supplement 14: 124.
Simulium quasidecolletum nom. n. (replacement name for truncatum Rivosecchi & Cardinali, preoccupied) 1988, Crosskey in Kim & Merritt (eds.), Black Flies... ‘1987’: 462.
Simulium zinaidae nom. n. (replacement name for ussovae Bodrova, preoccupied)
1997, Crosskey in Crosskey & Howard, A new taxonomic and geographical inventory of world blackflies (Diptera: Simuliidae): 62, 118.
description: Published as part of Adler, Peter H., 2018, Roger Ward Crosskey-The Life and Contributions of an Entomologist par Excellence (1930 - 2017), pp. 35-67 in Zootaxa 4455 (1) on pages 50-51, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4455.1.2, http://zenodo.org/record/1456955