Austrosimulium montanum
Taxonomy
This page represents the following TreeOfLife-200M taxonomic path.[1]
- Kingdom: Animalia
- Phylum: Arthropoda
- Class: Insecta
- Order: Diptera
- Family: Simuliidae
- Genus: Austrosimulium
- Species: Austrosimulium montanum
Visual Description
Austrosimulium montanum is a species of black fly. Based on examination of museum specimen images, the adult exhibits the characteristic compact, robust body form typical of the family Simuliidae. The specimens display a dark, sclerotized exoskeleton, with visible wing venation patterns consistent with the genus Austrosimulium[1].
Biology and Identification
Austrosimulium montanum was described by I.M. Mackerras and M.J. Mackerras in 1952[2]. Research into the DNA barcoding of austral black flies has utilized the COI gene to aid in species identification. Genetic analysis indicates a divergence of approximately 0.5% between A. montanum and the related species Austrosimulium cornutum[3].
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References
- 1 2 Dataset view for Animalia / Arthropoda / Insecta / Diptera / Simuliidae / Austrosimulium / montanum constructed from imageomics/TreeOfLife-200M records under this taxonomic path. Hugging Face Datasets. https://huggingface.co/datasets/imageomics/TreeOfLife-200M.
- ↑ Austrosimulium montanum Mackerras & Mackerras, 1952. GBIF. https://www.gbif.org/species/1646509. Accessed 2026-07-16.
- ↑ Luis M. Hernández‐Triana; Fernanda Montes de; Sean W. J. Prosser; Paul D. N. Hebert; T. Ryan Gregory; Shelley McMurtrie. DNA barcoding as an aid for species identification in austral black flies (Insecta: Diptera: Simuliidae). Genome. 2016. https://doi.org/10.1139/gen-2015-0168.