LONCHAEIDAE
(lance flies)

Subtaxon				Example images	Rank	Featured subtaxa	No of images	No of ID refs
Dasiops a genus of lance-flies					Genus			1 ident. refs
Silba fumosa Hogweed Lance-fly					Species		5 images

Taxonomic hierarchy:

Family	LONCHAEIDAE (lance flies)
Superfamily	TEPHRITOIDEA (lance and picture-wing flies)
Infraorder	Schizophora - Acalyptratae (an infraorder of flies)
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)

LONCHAEIDAE is also a member of:
Invertebrates - Invertebrates (via Arthropoda)

Identification Works

	Author	Year	Title	Source
	Collin, J.E.	1953	* A Revision of the British (and notes on other) species of Lonchaeidae (Diptera) *(Superseded)	Trans. Soc. Brit. Ent. Transactions of the Society for British Entomology Vol 11, Part 9: 181-207.
()	MacGowan, I. & Rotheray, G.	2008	British Lonchaeidae	RES Handbooks for the Identification of British Insects, Vol. 10 Part 15, 142pp, Field Studies Council

LONCHAEIDAE (lance flies) may also be included in identification literature listed under the following higher taxa:

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 LONCHAEIDAE (lance flies)

BioInfo (www.bioinfo.org.uk) has 1 host/parasite/foodplant and/or other relationships for LONCHAEIDAE (lance flies)

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Taxonomic hierarchy:

LONCHAEIDAE is also a member of:

Identification Works

BioImages - Virtual Field-Guide (UK)