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Simuliidae

family of flies
Taxon taxon Q720467
Simuliidae
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Summary

Simuliidae is a taxon[1]. Simuliidae ranks in the top 0.6% of taxon entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (8,445 views/month, #1,163 of 195,241).[2]

Key Facts

  • Taxon rank: family[3]
  • Parent taxon: Culicomorpha[4], Chironomoidea[5]
  • Taxon name: Simuliidae[6]
  • Commons category: Simuliidae[7]
  • Topic's main category: Category:Simuliidae[8]
  • Described by source: New Encyclopedic Dictionary[9], Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1926–1947)[10], Checklist of Diptera of the Czech Republic and Slovakia[11], New International Encyclopedia[12], Armenian Soviet Encyclopedia, vol. 7[13]
  • Taxon common name: Black Flies[14], knott[15]
  • Different from: midge[16]

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Identifiers

Simuliidae's iNaturalist taxon ID is recorded as 63164[17]. Simuliidae's NCBI taxonomy ID is recorded as 7190[18]. Simuliidae's Encyclopedia of Life ID is recorded as 9010[19]. Simuliidae's GBIF taxon ID is recorded as 3522[20]. Simuliidae's ITIS TSN is recorded as 126640[21].

Why It Matters

Simuliidae has Wikipedia articles in 26 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[22] Simuliidae is known by 49 alternative names across languages and contexts.[23]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [18] ↑ . Taxonomy database of the U.S. National Center for Biotechnology Information. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  7. [21] ↑ . Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  8. [19] ↑ . Encyclopedia of Life. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  9. [20] ↑ . Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  10. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  14. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  15. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  16. [14] ↑ . BugGuide. wikidata.org.
  17. [15] ↑ . Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  18. [16] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  19. [17] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [22] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [23] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

  1. 8d ago · MatSuBot bot · 2026-10-05 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Sitelink count → 55
    Wikipedia languages → ['af', 'an', 'ar', 'arz', 'az', 'bat_smg', 'be', 'bg', 'ca', 'ceb', 'cs', 'cv',
    Claims rich → —
    "/* wbeditentity-update-languages-short:0||hi, nso */ import labels from sitelinks"
  2. 12w ago · MargaretRDonald · 2026-07-17 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Ne.se id → knott, simuliidae
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:1||1 */ Ne.se id: simuliidae, Matched to #mix'n'match [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/entry/12819198|Simuliidae (#12819198)]] for {{P|3222}}"
  3. 20w ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-20 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Parent taxon → Culicomorpha, Chironomoidea
    Instance of → —
    Instance of → taxon
    Topic's main category → Category:Simuliidae
    + 5 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|5 */ Yso id: 22786, mv to monolingual text names on YSO statements"
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