“…; described a few additional rare species of the subgenus Simulium, especially from the Darjeeling area of West Bengal state, and provided taxonomic identification keys to simuliid species found in that region. Later, in the 21 st century, several researchers discovered many new species (Mitra et al 2006;Takaoka and Somboon 2008;Shrestha and Takaoka 2009;Mitra and Sharma 2010;Takaoka et al 2010Takaoka et al , 2011Henry et al 2011;Borah et al 2012;Dutta Saha et al 2012;Anbalagan et al 2014Anbalagan et al , 2015aAnbalagan et al , 2015b. The first checklist of Simuliidae of India was published by Mitra et al (2017).…”