PSYCHODIDAE
(owl midges, moth flies)

Interactions where PSYCHODIDAE is the victim or passive partner (and generally loses out from the process)

The following relationships have been collated from the published literature (see 'Interaction References').

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Affected Part Summary Taxon Vernacular Classification References Darwin Classification of Active Taxon Active Taxon Active Vernacular Active Taxon Uncertain Active State Active Part Active Stage Relationship Relationship Uncertain Relationship Geography Darwin Classification of Passive Taxon Passive Taxon Passive Vernacular Passive Taxon Uncertain Passive State Passive Part Passive Stage Passive Taxon's significance to Active Taxon Indoors etc Season Summary
adult may be infected by few, large, white or greenish, disk-ended rhizoids UK/Ireland Pandora dipterigena an entomophagous fungus Entomophthorales: Entomophthoraceae Entomophthorales foray: 10 - 14 September 1982, Exeter University and Norwich, Wilding, N., 1983
 /Fungi/Zygomycota/Zygomycetes/Entomophthorales/Entomophthoraceae/Pandora dipterigena/Pandora dipterigenaan entomophagous fungusfew, large, white or greenish, disk-endedrhizoids Animal / pathogenUK and/or Eire /Animalia/Arthropoda/Insecta/Diptera/Psychodidae/Psychodidaeowl midges, moth fliesadult few, large, white or greenish, disk-ended rhizoids infects adult

Author & YearTitleSource
Wilding, N., 1983Entomophthorales foray: 10 - 14 September 1982, Exeter University and NorwichBull. Br. mycol. Soc. Vol 17 (1): 47-49.

PSYCHODIDAE (owl midges, moth flies) may be included in 'feeds on' relations listed under the following higher taxa:

PSYCHODIDAE (owl midges, moth flies) may also be included in 'fed on by' relations listed under the following higher taxa:

Subtaxon Rank Featured
subtaxa		 No of
interactions		 No of
references
Atrichobrunettia angustipennis
a moth fly
Species 1 references
Psychoda
a genus of moth flies
Genus 2 subtaxa 2 trophisms 1 references
Telmatoscopus
a genus of moth flies
Genus 1 subtaxa 1 references
Trichomyia
a genus of moth flies
Genus 1 references
Taxonomic hierarchy:
FamilyPSYCHODIDAE (owl midges, moth flies)
SuperfamilyPSYCHODOIDEA (owl midges, moth flies)
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)
NBNNBN (data.nbn.org.uk) has a distribution map for PSYCHODIDAE (owl midges, moth flies)

Identification Works

Handling & MagnificationAuthorYearTitleSource
Coe, R.L., Freeman, P. & Mattingley, P.F. 1950 *** Diptera: Nematocera: families Tipulidae to Chironomidae ***(Superseded) Handbooks for the Identification of British Insects, Vol IX. Part 2, 216pp, The Royal Entomological Society of London
Withers, P. 2004 Additions to the British moth fly fauna (Diptera, Psychodidae): Pericoma sziladyi Szabó and Saraiella consigliana (Sara) Dipterists Digest (2nd Series) 10: 111-113.
Withers, P. 1989 Moth Flies: Diptera: Psychodidae Dipterists Digest Dipterists Digest No 4.

PSYCHODIDAE (owl midges, moth flies) may also be included in identification literature listed under the following higher taxa:

Literature listed under the following higher taxa may be relevant to PSYCHODIDAE (owl midges, moth flies):

BioImagesBioImages (www.bioimages.org.uk) has 50 images of PSYCHODIDAE (owl midges, moth flies)
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