Simulium ornatum complex (Meigen, 1818)
(a blackfly)

Taxonomic hierarchy:

Species group	Simulium ornatum complex (a blackfly)
Genus	Simulium (a genus of blackflies)
Family	SIMULIIDAE (blackflies)
Superfamily	CHIRONOMOIDEA (biting, non-biting & trickle midges, blackflies)
Infraorder	Culicomorpha (mosquitoes, gnats, midges & blackflies)
Suborder	NEMATOCERA (thread-horned flies, gnat)
Order	DIPTERA (two-winged flies)
Division	Endopterygota (bees, beetles, flies, moths and other insects with wings developing internally)
Infraclass	Neoptera (bees, beetles, flies, grasshoppers, moths and other advanced insects)
Subclass	PTERYGOTA (bees, beetles, dragonflies, flies, grasshoppers, moths and other winged insects)
Class	INSECTA (true insects)
Subphylum	HEXAPODA (insects and other 6-legged organisms)
Phylum	ARTHROPODA (arthropods)
Superphylum	ECDYSOZOA (skin shedders)
Clade	Bilateria (bilaterally symmetrical animals)
Subkingdom	EUMETAZOA (metazoans)
Kingdom	ANIMALIA (animals)
Domain	Eukaryota (eukaryotes)
Life	BIOTA (living things)

Simulium ornatum complex is also a member of:
Invertebrates - Invertebrates (via Arthropoda)

Identification Works

	Author	Year	Title	Source
	Crosskey, R.W.	2005	A perspective on anthropophily in British blackflies (Diptera, Simuliidae) with keys to the identification of the culprit species	Dipterists Digest (2nd Series) Vol. 12 No. 1: 29-58.

Simulium ornatum complex (a blackfly) may also be included in identification literature listed under the following higher taxa:

Simulium
(a genus of blackflies)

SIMULIIDAE
(blackflies)

NEMATOCERA
(thread-horned flies, gnat)

DIPTERA
(two-winged flies)

INSECTA
(true insects)

HEXAPODA
(insects and other 6-legged organisms)

ARTHROPODA
(arthropods)

ANIMALIA
(animals)

Eukaryota
(eukaryotes)

BIOTA
(living things)

NBN (data.nbn.org.uk) has a distribution map for Simulium ornatum complex (a blackfly)

BioInfo (www.bioinfo.org.uk) has 0 host/parasite/foodplant and/or other relationships for Simulium ornatum complex (a blackfly)

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Taxonomic hierarchy:

Simulium ornatum complex is also a member of:

Identification Works

BioImages - Virtual Field-Guide (UK)