Sciara militaris Nowicki, 1868
(a fly)

Taxonomic hierarchy:
SpeciesSciara militaris (a fly)
GenusSciara (a genus of black fungus gnats)
FamilySCIARIDAE (black fungus gnats)
SuperfamilySCIAROIDEA (fungus gnats and gall midges)
InfraorderBibionomorpha (St Mark’s flies, fever flies)
SuborderNEMATOCERA (thread-horned flies, gnat)
OrderDIPTERA (two-winged flies)
Division Endopterygota (bees, beetles, flies, moths and other insects with wings developing internally)
InfraclassNeoptera (bees, beetles, flies, grasshoppers, moths and other advanced insects)
SubclassPTERYGOTA (bees, beetles, dragonflies, flies, grasshoppers, moths and other winged insects)
ClassINSECTA (true insects)
SubphylumHEXAPODA (insects and other 6-legged organisms)
PhylumARTHROPODA (arthropods)
SuperphylumECDYSOZOA (skin shedders)
CladeBilateria (bilaterally symmetrical animals)
SubkingdomEUMETAZOA (metazoans)
KingdomANIMALIA (animals)
DomainEukaryota (eukaryotes)
LifeBIOTA (living things)

Identification Works

AuthorYearTitleSource
Craik, J.C.A., Wormell, P., Smith, J.E. & Menziel, F. 2005 Long columns of "army worms" in west Scotland - the first record of Sciara militaris Nowicki (Diptera, Sciaridae) in the British Isles? Dipterists Digest (2nd Series) Vol. 12 No. 1: 21-27.

Sciara militaris (a fly) may also be included in identification literature listed under the following higher taxa:

NBNNBN (data.nbn.org.uk) has a distribution map for Sciara militaris (a fly)
BioInfoBioInfo (www.bioinfo.org.uk) has 0 host/parasite/foodplant and/or other relationships for Sciara militaris (a fly)
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