Sciaroidea
| Sciaroidea | |
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| The Hessian Fly (Mayetiola destructor) from the family Cecidomyiidae | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Euarthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Diptera |
| Infraorder: | Bibionomorpha |
| Superfamily: | Sciaroidea |
Sciaroidea is a superfamily in the infraorder Bibionomorpha. Most of its constituent families are various gnats.
Families
- Bolitophilidae
- Diadocidiidae
- Ditomyiidae
- Keroplatidae
- Lygistorrhinidae
- Mycetophilidae - fungus gnats
- Rangomaramidae[1]
- Sciaridae - dark winged fungus gnats
- Cecidomyiidae - gall midges or gall gnats
References
- ↑ Jaschhof, Mathias; Didham, Raphael (2002). "Rangomaramidae Fam. Nov. from New Zealand: And Implications for the Phylogeny of the Sciaroidea (Diptera: Biblionomorpha)". Ampyx-Verlag.
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