Austrosimulium
Taxonomy
This page represents the following TreeOfLife-200M taxonomic path.[1]
- Kingdom: Animalia
- Phylum: Arthropoda
- Class: Insecta
- Order: Diptera
- Family: Simuliidae
- Genus: Austrosimulium
Visual Description
Members of the genus Austrosimulium are small flies typical of the family Simuliidae. Based on observations of museum specimens in the TreeOfLife-200M dataset, they exhibit the characteristic robust, hump-backed body form common to blackflies.[1] The specimens display short, stout antennae and relatively broad, rounded wings. The coloration is generally dark, ranging from brownish to blackish, which is consistent with their classification as blackflies.[1]
Biology and Ecology
Austrosimulium is a genus of blackflies within the family Simuliidae.[2] Taxonomic revisions have clarified the placement of certain species; for instance, Austrosimulium colboi has been reassigned to the genus Paraustrosimulium based on molecular and morphological evidence.[3]
Interactions recorded for this genus include associations with various viruses, such as blackfly genomoviruses, which have been identified in association with Austrosimulium.[4]
Gallery
References
- 1 2 3 Dataset view for Animalia / Arthropoda / Insecta / Diptera / Simuliidae / Austrosimulium constructed from imageomics/TreeOfLife-200M records under this taxonomic path. Hugging Face Datasets. https://huggingface.co/datasets/imageomics/TreeOfLife-200M.
- ↑ Austrosimulium. Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Austrosimulium. Accessed 2026-07-15.
- ↑ Douglas A. Craig; John K. Moulton; Douglas C. Currie. Taxonomic revision of Paraustrosimulium Wygodzinsky & Coscarón: reassignment of Austrosimulium colboi and description of P. obcidens n. sp. from Western Australia. Zootaxa. 2017. https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4337.4.1.
- ↑ Austrosimulium. Global Biotic Interactions. https://www.globalbioticinteractions.org/?targetTaxon=Austrosimulium. Accessed 2026-07-15.