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Simulium yahense
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Diptera
Family:	Simuliidae
Genus:	Simulium
Species:	S. yahense
Binomial name
Simulium yahense Vajime & Dunbar, 1975

Simulium yahense is a species of black flies found in West African rain forests. Their larval stages are found in "smaller, more shaded, cooler breeding waters." One particular group, now eradicated, was found only on the island of Bioko, and was an extremely effective vector for the parasitic worm Onchocerca volvulus that causes onchocerciasis, or "river blindness".

References

1. Fryauff DJ, Trpis M. (November 1986). "Identification of larval and adult Simulium yahense and Simulium sanctipauli based on species-specific enzyme markers and their distribution at different breeding habitats in Central Liberia". Am J Trop Med Hyg. 35 (6): 1218–30. doi:10.4269/ajtmh.1986.35.1218. PMID 2947482.
2. "Simulium yahense 'Bioko'". History Online. Natural History Museum. Retrieved 3 February 2012.

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