RUFICORNE species-group

Simulium akopi Chubareva & Kachvoryan

Chubareva & Kachvoryan (2000, comparison with selected species of S. vernum group, original description of species, photos of all chromosomes, selected inversions mapped): Armenia

Chubareva & Petrova (2003, notes on general polytene features): Armenia

Kachvoryan, Petrova & Chubareva (2003, notes on general polytene features): Armenia

Chubareva & Petrova (2008a, description, photos of metaphase and polytene complements): Armenia

Simulium angustitarse (Lundström)

Chubareva (1977c, description; idiogram; photos of CII, IIS, IIIS, and IIIL base; polytene chromosome lengths): Lithuania

Chubareva (1979a, notes on general polytene features): Lithuania

Chubareva & Petrova (1979, 2003, notes on general polytene features, polytene chromosome lengths): Lithuania

Chubareva (1980a, idiogram, notes on general polytene features): Lithuania

Chubareva & Petrova (2004, notes on general polytene features, polytene chromosome lengths): Russia

Chubareva & Petrova (2008a, description, photos of metaphase and polytene complements, polytene chromosome lengths): Lithuania, Russia

Simulium aureohirtum Brunetti

Dey & Fumafartosok (1984b, description, idiogram, lengths, and photos of metaphase complement): India

Zhang & Chen (2000, description, lengths, and photos of metaphase complement): China

Pramual, Wongpakam & Kuvangkadilok (2008, characterization, cytodendrogram, inversions mapped, photos of all arms, resolution relative to S. ornatipes standard): Thailand

Reeves & Adler (2011, banding similarity between insular and mainland populations): Guam, Japan (Okinawa Island)

Simulium delizhanense (Rubtsov)

Chubareva & Petrova (1979, 2003, notes on general polytene features, polytene chromosome lengths): Armenia

Kachvoryan (1979, notes on comparison with selected species of subgenera Montisimulium and Nevermannia [as Cnetha]): [Armenia]

Kachvoryan, Petrova & Chubareva (2003, notes on general polytene features, polytene chromosome lengths): Armenia

Chubareva & Petrova (2008a, description, photos of metaphase and polytene complements, polytene chromosome lengths): Armenia

Simulium lundstromi (Enderlein)

Chubareva & Petrukhina (1970, note on conjugation of polytene homologues; as Eusimulium kerteszi): (country unspecified)

Chubareva (1977c, description, idiogram, photos of CII and IIS, polytene chromosome lengths; as Chelocnetha latigonium): Russia

Chubareva & Petrova (1979, notes on general polytene features; as Chelocnetha latigonium and Cnetha kerteszi): Russia

Chubareva & Petrova (2003, notes on general polytene features; as Nevermannia latigonium and N. lundstromi): Russia

Chubareva & Petrova (2004, notes on general polytene features, polytene chromosome lengths; as N. latigonia and N. lundstromi): Russia

Chubareva & Petrova (2008a, description, photos of metaphase and polytene complements, polytene chromosome lengths; as Nevermannia latigonia and N. lundströmi): Russia

Simulium montshadskii (Rubtsov)

Chubareva (1977c, description, idiogram, photos of all arms, polytene chromosome lengths): Tajikistan

Chubareva & Petrova (1979, 2003, notes on general polytene features, polytene chromosome lengths): Tajikistan

Chubareva, Petrova & Kachvoryan (2003, photos of centromere regions): Tajikistan

Chubareva & Petrova (2008a, description, photos of centromere regions and metaphase and polytene complements, polytene chromosome lengths): Tajikistan

Simulium neornatipes Dumbleton (complex)

Bedo (1977 a, 1977b, characterization, cytodendrogram, inversions mapped, new sibling species [‘1’ and ‘2’], photos of IIIL partial, resolution relative to S. ornatipes standard): New Caledonia

Bedo (1984, characterization of 3 sibling species; cytodendrogram; inversions mapped; new sibling species recognized [‘3’]; photos of IS, IL, and IIL partial, and IIIL; resolution relative to S. ornatipes standard): New Caledonia

Bedo (1989, cytodendrogram, resolution relative to S. ruficorne): [Australia]

Simulium norfolkense Dumbleton

Bedo (1977 a, 1977b, autotriploids, characterization, cytodendrogram, inversions mapped, photos of all arms; as S. ornatipes ‘A’ [in part]): Australia, Norfolk Island

Bedo (1978, band and nucleolar polymorphisms; as S. ornatipes ‘A’ [in part]): Norfolk Island

Bedo (1979a, characterization of homosequential sibling species; as S. ornatipes ‘A1’): Australia

Bedo (1979b, characterization of homosequential sibling species, S. ornatipes ‘A1’ established as S. norfolkense): Australia, Norfolk Island

Simulium ornatipes Skuse (complex)

Bedo (1975 a, 1977a, description of C banding; photos of polytene complement, IS partial, and C banding of CI, CIII, IIIS, and partial IS, IL, and IIIL, and metaphase complement): Australia

Bedo (1976a, 1976b, 1977a, comparison of polytene chromosomes from larval silk glands and adult Malpighian tubules; photos of IS, IIS, and IIL from larval silk glands and adult Malpighian tubules and C banding of CI and IIS and IIL ends from adult Malpighian tubules): Australia

Bedo (1977 a, 1977b, characterization, cytodendrogram, inversions mapped, new sibling species recognized [‘A’ and ‘B’], note on autotriploids, photos of all polytene arms and metaphase complement, polytene chromosome relative lengths, sex-chromosome evolution, standard map established for S. ornatipes complex): Australia (including Tasmania)

Bedo (1978, description of band and nucleolar polymorphisms for 2 sibling species [‘A’ and ‘B’], diagram of band polymorphisms, photos of C-banded and orcein-stained band and nucleolar polymorphisms): Australia

Bedo (1979 a, 1979b, characterization of homosequential sibling species [‘A1’ (= S. norfolkense) and ‘A2’]): Australia

Bedo (1982, description of stages of chromosome replication cycle determined by double labeling with H3- and C14-thymidine, photos of all thymidine-labeled arms): Australia

Bedo (1989, cytodendrogram, fixed inversions mapped relative to S. ruficorne): [Australia]

Simulium ruficorne Macquart

Leonhardt (1985, 1987, comparison with S. aureum group): [Cape Verde Islands]

Bedo (1989, characterization, cytodendrogram, inversions mapped, new cytoforms recognized [‘Bouaké’, ‘ Cape Verde Islands’, and ‘Tenerife’], photos of all arms and selected polymorphisms, standard map established for S. ruficorne and compared with S. ornatipes complex): Canary Islands (Tenerife), Cape Verde Islands (Santiago), Ivory Coast

Seitz, Zwick & Adler (2012, characterization): Canary Islands (Fuerteventura, Madeira)