Austrocnephia
Taxonomy
This page represents the following TreeOfLife-200M taxonomic path.[1]
- Kingdom: Animalia
- Phylum: Arthropoda
- Class: Insecta
- Order: Diptera
- Family: Simuliidae
- Genus: Austrocnephia
Description
Austrocnephia is a genus of black flies (family Simuliidae) established by Craig, Currie, Gil-Azevedo, and Moulton in 2019.[2] The genus was created to accommodate five species previously classified within the genus Paracnephia.[2] The formal description of the genus was published in Zootaxa as part of a broader work that also provided a key to Australian black fly genera.[2]
Visual Description
While specific morphological traits are best examined through detailed taxonomic keys, specimens of Austrocnephia (such as A. aurantiaca and A. orientale) observed in the TreeOfLife-200M dataset exhibit the characteristic body form of Simuliidae, including a compact, robust thorax and relatively short, broad wings.[1] These specimens typically display a dark, often brownish or blackish, sclerotized cuticle.[1]
Gallery
References
- 1 2 3 Dataset view for Animalia / Arthropoda / Insecta / Diptera / Simuliidae / Austrocnephia constructed from imageomics/TreeOfLife-200M records under this taxonomic path. Hugging Face Datasets. https://huggingface.co/datasets/imageomics/TreeOfLife-200M.
- 1 2 3 Austrocnephia Craig, Currie, Gil-Azevedo & Moulton, 2019. GBIF. https://www.gbif.org/species/10041951. Accessed 2026-07-16.