Black Flies

BLACK FLIES
  • Family: Simuliidae
  • Genus: Simulium
  • Species: S. indicum, S.kashmiricum, S.aureohirtum, S.himalyanesis
  • Common Name: Black flies, Buffalo gnats, Turkey gnats
  • Small, dark (hence the name black flies), squat bodied, thick set flies
  • Hump backed nematocera, larger than the ceratopogonids  
Last modified: Friday, 23 September 2011, 4:46 AM