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NEMATOCERA (thread-horned flies)

Sets of Photographs

These relate to individual finds ("biological records") of the organism.

Taxon Summary # images # macrophotos Date Vice-county Country
Nematocera? Larva 4 4 22 Oct 2008 North Somerset England

Subtaxa

Rank Taxon #subtaxa #photos #macrophotos #microphotos #refs
Family ANISOPODIDAE (window gnats) 2   16   3
Family BIBIONIDAE (St Mark’s flies, fever flies) 8 62 65   3
Family CECIDOMYIIDAE (gall, rust and aphid midges) 29 148 164   12
Family CERATOPOGONIDAE (biting midges) 3 12   4 3
Family CHAOBORIDAE (phantom midges) 2 49      
Family CHIRONOMIDAE (non-biting midges) 5 12 1   12
Family CULICIDAE (mosquitoes, gnats) 2 5 40 17 9
Family DIXIDAE (meniscus midges)         1
Family PSYCHODIDAE (owl midges, moth flies) 5 9 10 26 6
Family PTYCHOPTERIDAE (a family of craneflies) 3   24   2
Family SCATOPSIDAE (scatopsid flies) 4 2 25 3 3
Superfamily SCIAROIDEA (fungus gnats) 5        
Family KEROPLATIDAE (a family of fungus gnats) 1 10 2   1
Family MYCETOPHILIDAE (a family of fungus gnats) 3 5 9   3
Family SCIARIDAE (black fungus gnats) 1 1 6   4
Family SIMULIIDAE (blackflies) 15 10 21   20
Family THAUMALEIDAE (trickle midges)         1
Family TIPULIDAE (craneflies) 53 231 516   16
Family TRICHOCERIDAE (winter gnats)         1

Suggested Literature

Identification Works

Séguy, E., 1940 Diptéres Nematocères (Fungivoridae, Lycoriidae, Hesperinidae, Bibionidae, Scatopsidae, Phrynidae, Pachyneuridae, Blepharoceridae)

BioInfo BioInfo (www.bioinfo.org.uk) has 25 general literature references to NEMATOCERA (thread-horned flies)

NEMATOCERA may also be covered by literature listed under:

BIOTA
(living things)
Eukaryota
(eukaryotes)
ANIMALIA
(animals)
ARTHROPODA
(arthropods)
INSECTA
(insects)
DIPTERA
(two-winged flies)

BioInfo BioInfo (www.bioinfo.org.uk) has 309 feeding and other relationships of NEMATOCERA (thread-horned flies)

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