TRICHOCEROIDEA
(winter gnats)

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TRICHOCERIDAE
winter gnats
Family 3 ident. refs
Taxonomic hierarchy:
SuperfamilyTRICHOCEROIDEA (winter gnats)
InfraorderPsychodomorpha (owl midges or moth flies, winter & window gnats, scatopsids)
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
Stubbs, A.E. & Kramer, J. 2016 Test keys to Craneflies

TRICHOCEROIDEA (winter gnats) may also be included in identification literature listed under the following higher taxa:

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