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NEMATOCERA (thread-horned flies)

Subtaxa

Rank	Taxon
Family	ANISOPODIDAE	2		9		1
Family	BIBIONIDAE (St Mark’s flies, fever flies)	7	29	38		3
Family	CECIDOMYIIDAE (gall midges)	162	52	98		6	237
Family	CERATOPOGONIDAE (biting midges)	3
Genus	Atrichopogon	1	2			1
Genus	Culicoides (a genus of biting midges)			2	4		1
Genus	Forcipomyia		8
Family	CHAOBORIDAE	2
Genus	Chaoborus (phantom midges)	2	20	29
Family	CHIRONOMIDAE (non-biting midges)	9	12	1		11	1
Family	CULICIDAE (mosquitoes, gnats)	3	5	33	13	5	2
Family	DIXIDAE (meniscus midges)					1
Family	KEROPLATIDAE	1	7	5
Family	MYCETOPHILIDAE (fungus gnats)	4	2	9		2
Family	PSYCHODIDAE (owl midges, moth flies)	6	8	11	26	6
Family	PTYCHOPTERIDAE	3		31		2
Family	SCATOPSIDAE (scatopsid flies)	7		22	3	3	6
Family	SCIARIDAE (black fungus gnats)	1	1	6		3
Family	SIMULIIDAE (blackflies)	15	7	24		19
Family	THAUMALEIDAE (trickle midges)					1
Family	TIPULIDAE (craneflies)	62	186	476		13	16
Family	TRICHOCERIDAE (winter gnats)					1

Suggested Literature

Identification Works

NEMATOCERA may also be covered by literature listed under:

Feeding and other inter-species relationships

NEMATOCERA is associated with:

There may be taxa associated with Nematocera listed at higher taxonomic level

Associated with NEMATOCERA:

		is taken to the nest of female	Crossocerus podagricus - a digger wasp (Hymenoptera: Sphecidae)		Macdonald, M.A., in prep.
	adult	adult may be infected by numerous, olive rhizoids	Erynia variabilis - an entomophagous fungus (Entomophthorales: Entomophthoraceae)		Waterhouse, G.M. & Brady, B.L., 1982 [minute gnats in wet places]

Nematocera may be associated with more taxa listed at higher taxonomic level

References