ANISOPODIDAE
(window gnats)

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Sylvicola
a genus of window gnats
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 		Genus 3 subtaxa 29 images 1 ident. refs
Taxonomic hierarchy:
FamilyANISOPODIDAE (window gnats)
SuperfamilyANISOPODOIDEA (window 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
Coe, R.L., Freeman, P. & Mattingley, P.F. 1950 *** Diptera: Nematocera: families Tipulidae to Chironomidae ***(Superseded) Handbooks for the Identification of British Insects, Vol IX.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
Falk, S. Diptera (flies) www.flickr.com/photos/63075200@N07/collections/72157629586945825/

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

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