Sciaroidea
Sciaroidea is a superfamily in the infraorder Bibionomorpha. There are about 16 families and more than 15,000 described species in Sciaroidea. Most of its constituent families are various gnats.
| Sciaroidea | |
|---|---|
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| The Hessian Fly (Mayetiola destructor) from the family Cecidomyiidae | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Diptera |
| Infraorder: | Bibionomorpha |
| Superfamily: | Sciaroidea |
Families
These 16 families belong to the superfamily Sciaroidea:[1][2]
- Bolitophilidae
- Cecidomyiidae (gall midges and wood midges, sometimes excluded from Sciaroidea)
- Diadocidiidae
- Ditomyiidae
- Keroplatidae (predatory fungus gnats)
- Lygistorrhinidae (long-beaked fungus gnats)
- Mycetophilidae (fungus gnats)
- Rangomaramidae (long-winged fungus gnats)[3]
- Sciaridae (dark-winged fungus gnats)
- † Antefungivoridae
- † Archizelmiridae
- † Eoditomyiidae
- † Mesosciophilidae
- † Paraxymyiidae
- † Pleciofungivoridae
- † Protopleciidae
References
- Greenwalt, D.; Kjærandsen, J. (2019). "Fungus Gnats Online". Retrieved 2019-06-06.
- "Sciaroidea superfamily Information". BugGuide.net. Retrieved 2019-06-06.
- 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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