Checklist of Alberta Simuliidae (black flies)

From: Currie, D.C. 1986. An Annotated List of and Keys to the Immature Black Flies of Alberta (Diptera: Simuliidae). Memoirs of the Entomological Society of Canada, 134. 90 pp.

back to home page

SIMULIINAE
	Prosimuliini

Cnephia Enderlein, 1921
	dacotensis (Dyar and Shannon, 1927)
Ectemnia Enderlein, 1930
	invenusta (Walker, 1848)
	taeniatifrons (Enderlein, 1925)
Gymnopais Stone, 1949
	dichopticoides Wood, 1978
Mayacnephia Wygodzinsky and Coscaron, 1973
	species X
Prosimulium Roubaud, 1906
(Distosimulium) Peterson, 1970
	pleurale Malloch, 1914
(Helodon) Enderlein, 1921
	albertense Peterson and Depner, 1972
	onychodactylum Dyar and Shannon, 1927 [complex]
	susanae Peterson, 1970
(Parahelodon) Peterson, 1970
	decemarticulatum (Twinn, 1936) [complex]
	gibsoni (Twinn, 1936) [complex]
(Prosimulium) Roubaud, 1906
	esselbaughi Sommerman, 1964
	exigens Dyar and Shannon, 1927
	formosum Shewell, 1959
	frohnei Sommerman, 1958
	fulvum (Coquillett, 1902)
	travisi Stone, 1952
Stegopterna Enderlein, 1930
	mutata (Malloch, 1914) [complex]
Twinnia Stone and Jamnback, 1955
	nova (Dyar and Shannon, 1927)

	Simuliini

Metacnephia Crosskey, 1969
	pallipes (Fries, 1824) [complex]
	saskatchewana (Shewell and Fredeen, 1958)
	villosa (DeFoliart and Peterson, 1960)
Simulium Latreille, 1802
(Byssodon) Enderlein, 1925
	meridionale Riley, 1887
(Eusimulium) Roubaud, 1906
	anatinum Wood, 1963
	aureum Fries, 1824 [complex]
	baffinense Twinn, 1936
	canonicolum (Dyar and Shannon, 1927)
	croxtoni Nicholson and Mickel, 1950
	duplex Shewell and Fredeen, 1958
	euryadminiculum Davies, 1949
	furculatum (Shewell, 1952)
	pugetense (Dyar and Shannon, 1927)
	vernum Macquart, 1826 [complex]
(Parabvssodon) Rubtsov, 1964
	transiens Rubtsov, 1940
(Phosterodoros) Stone and Snoddy, 1969
	jenningsi Malloch, 1914
	luggeri Nicholson and Mickel, 1950 [complex]
(Psilopelmia) Enderlein, 1934
	bivittatum Malloch, 1914
	griseum Coquillett, 1898
(Psilozia) Enderlein, 1936
	vittatum Zetterstedt, 1838 [complex]
(Shewellomyia) Peterson, 1975
	longistylatum Shewell, 1959
(Simulium) Latreille, 1802
	arcticum Malloch, 1914 [complex]
	corbis Twinn, 1936 [complex]
	decorum Walker, 1848 [complex]
	defoliarti Stone and Peterson, 1958
	hunteri Malloch, 1914
	malyschevi Dorogostaisky, Rubtsov, and Viasenko, 1935
	piperi Dyar and Shannon, 1927
	rugglesi Nicholson and Mickel, 1950
	tuberosum (Lundstrom, 1911) [complex]
	venustum Say, 1823 [complex]
	verecundum Stone and Jamnback, 1955 [complex]

SPECIES THAT MAY OCCUR IN ALBERTA

Greniera Doby and David, 1959
	denaria (Davies, Peterson, and Wood, 1962) [B.C.]
Prosimulium Roubaud, 1906
(Prosimulium) Roubaud, 1906
	dicum Dyar and Shannon, 1927 [B.C.]
Twinnia Stone and Jamnback, 1955
	hirticornis Wood, 1978 [B.C., Montana]
Simulium Latreille, 1802
(Eusimulium) Roubaud, 1906
	bicorne Dorogostaiskv, Rubtsov, and Vlasenko, 1935 [complex] [B.C.]
	excisum Davies, Peterson, and Wood, 1962 [B.C.]
(Simulium) Latreille, 1802
	nigricoxum Stone, 1952 [N.W.T., B.C.?]

QUESTIONABLE RECORDS IN THE LITERATURE

Stegopterna Enderlein, 1930
	emergens (Stone, 1952) [Abdelnur, 1968]
Simulium Latreille, 1802
(Psilozia) Enderlein, 1936
	argus Williston, 1893 [Stone, l965]
(Shewellomyia) Peterson, 1975
	pictipes Hagen, 1880 [Strickland, 1938; Abdelnur 1968]