Simuliidae, Newman, 1834

Barahona-Segovia, Rodrigo M., Madriz, Isaí, González, Christian R. & Amorim, Dalton De Souza, 2024, An update on the knowledge and general understanding of the Chilean Diptera diversity, Zootaxa 5518 (1), pp. 1-87 : 11

Simuliidae ( Figs 11–12 )

This family comprises 2,384 extant species in 31 genera and 48 subgenera ( Adler 2022) into two subfamilies, Parasimuliinae and Simuliinae ( de Moor 2017) . Knab (1914) and Silva (1917) made the first contributions to the study of Simuliidae fauna from Chile. Subsequently, Coscarón (1976a), Coscarón & Matta (1982), Coscarón (1985), and Coscarón & Wygodzinsky (1989) studied simuliids in the north and south of the country, describing genera and species. For Chile, 46 species in eight genera are mentioned ( Adler 2022), with no more recent taxonomic treatments on the family.

Figures

FIGURES 8–13. Culicomorpha and Perissommatomorpha of Chile: (8) Forcipomyia sp. (Ceratopogonidae, Photo by Matías Gargiulo); (9) Chironomidae (photo by Matías Gargiulo); (10) Aedes (Ochlerotatus) albifasciatus (Macquart) (Culicidae, photo by Claudio Maureira); (11) Cnesia sp. (Simuliidae, photo by Claudio Maureira); (12) Gigantodax brophyi (Edwards) (Simuliidae, photo by Claudio Maureira), and (13) Perissoma cf. congrua (Perissommatidae, photo by Claudio Maureira).