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R. W. CROSSKEY 



SUMMARY OF THE PROPOSED CLASSIFICATION OF THE SIMULIIDAE 

 OF AFRICA AND ITS ISLANDS 



The following synoptic catalogue shows all the species-group, genus-group and 

 family-group taxa of the Simuliidae occurring in Africa and its islands. The area 

 of coverage is the continent of Africa (Palaearctic Africa and the Ethiopian Region), 

 southern Arabia (a constituent part of Ethiopian Region), the Malagasy Region 

 (including Madagascar, Comoros, La Reunion, Mauritius, Rodriguez and the 

 Seychelles), St. Helena and the Canary Islands, and the taxa are arranged in accord- 

 ance with the re-classification proposed in the text. 



Several names exist in the literature for supposed species described or known from 

 the Canary Islands and North Africa, all of which are listed, but some of these will 

 almost certainly prove to be synonymous when the southern Mediterranean Simuliid 

 fauna is better known. Taxa occurring in North Africa (Morocco to Tunisia) or the 

 Canary Islands but not occurring in the Ethiopian Region or the Malagasy Region 

 are marked with an asterisk (*). 



Names that are taxonomically and nomenclaturally valid according to the 

 proposed classification are given in bold-face type in the following list and synonyms 

 are indented. 



Family SIMULIIDAE Newman, 1834 

 Subfamily SIMULIINAE Newman, 1834 

 Tribe PROSIMULIINI Enderlein, 1921 



Genus PROSIMULIUM Roubaud, 1906 



Subgenus PROSIMULIUM Roubaud, 

 1906 s. str.* 



HELODON Enderlein, 1921 

 TAENIOPTERNA Enderlein, 



1925 

 HELLICHIA Enderlein, 1925 

 MALLOCHELLA Enderlein, 



1930 

 MALLOCHIANELLA Vargas 



& Diaz Najera, 1948 

 UROSIMULIUM Contini, 



1963 

 ? hirtipes (Fries, 1824) 



Subgenus PROCNEPHIA sgen. n. 



damarense de Meillon & Hardy, 1951 

 rhodesianum Crosskey, 1968 

 morotoense (McCrae & Prentice, 

 1965) 



Subgenus PARACNEPHIA Rubzov, 1962 

 stat. n. 



brincki- group 



brincki (de Meillon, 1955) comb. n. 

 muspratti- group 



thornei (de Meillon, 1955) comb. n. 

 barnardi (Gibbins, 1938) comb. n. 

 harrisoni (Freeman & de 



Meillon, 1953) comb. n. 

 muspratti (Freeman & de 



Meillon, 1953) comb. n. 

 hereto (Enderlein, 1935) 

 comb. n. 

 turneri- group 



turneri (Gibbins, 1938) comb. n. 



Tribe SIMULIINI Newman, 1834 



Genus METACNEPHIA gen. n.* 



bland (Grenier & Theodorides, 1953) 



comb, n.* 

 tredecimata (Edwards, 1920) comb, 

 n.* 



