thumb|Austrosimulium australense, New Zealand
thumb|Austrosimulium australense, New Zealand
Austrosimulium is a genus of about 30 species of black flies that are distributed in Australia and New Zealand. There are 2 subgenera: Austrosimulium whose species are principally from New Zealand, and Novaustrosimulium which are exclusively Australian. Austrosimulium is a sister genus to the monospecific Paraustrosimulium of South America.
Discovered by embedding cosine similarity (sentence-transformers MiniLM, 384-dim).