BIBIONIDAE
(St Mark’s flies, fever flies)

Subtaxon				Example images	Rank	Featured subtaxa	No of images	No of ID refs
Bibio St Mark’s flies					Genus	10 subtaxa	175 images
Dilophus fever flies					Genus	2 subtaxa	48 images

Taxonomic hierarchy:

Family	BIBIONIDAE (St Mark’s flies, fever flies)
Superfamily	BIBIONOIDEA (St Mark’s flies, fever flies)
Infraorder	Bibionomorpha (St Mark’s flies, fever flies)
Suborder	NEMATOCERA (thread-horned flies, gnat)
Order	DIPTERA (two-winged flies)
Division	Endopterygota (bees, beetles, flies, moths and other insects with wings developing internally)
Infraclass	Neoptera (bees, beetles, flies, grasshoppers, moths and other advanced insects)
Subclass	PTERYGOTA (bees, beetles, dragonflies, flies, grasshoppers, moths and other winged insects)
Class	INSECTA (true insects)
Subphylum	HEXAPODA (insects and other 6-legged organisms)
Phylum	ARTHROPODA (arthropods)
Superphylum	ECDYSOZOA (skin shedders)
Clade	Bilateria (bilaterally symmetrical animals)
Subkingdom	EUMETAZOA (metazoans)
Kingdom	ANIMALIA (animals)
Domain	Eukaryota (eukaryotes)
Life	BIOTA (living things)

BIBIONIDAE is also a member of:
Invertebrates - Invertebrates (via Arthropoda)

Identification Works

	Author	Year	Title	Source
	Edwards, F.W.	1925	* A Synopsis of British Bibionidae and Scatopsidae (Diptera) *(Superseded)	Ann. appl. Biol.: 263-275.
	Falk, S.		Diptera (flies)	www.flickr.com/photos/63075200@N07/collections/72157629586945825/
()	Freeman, P. & Lane, R.P.	1985	Bibionid and Scatopsid Flies	Handbook for the Identification of British Insects , Vol 9, Part 7, 74pp, The Royal Entomological Society of London
	Séguy, E.	1940	* Diptéres Nematocères (Fungivoridae, Lycoriidae, Hesperinidae, Bibionidae, Scatopsidae, Phrynidae, Pachyneuridae, Blepharoceridae) *(Superseded)	Faune de France, Faune No 36, 368pp, Fédération Française des Sociétés de Science Naturel
	Skartveit, J.	2004	Nordiske harmygg (Bibionidae): larver og imagines	Norske Insekttabeller Vol 17.

BIBIONIDAE (St Mark’s flies, fever flies) may also be included in identification literature listed under the following higher taxa:

NEMATOCERA
(thread-horned flies, gnat)

DIPTERA
(two-winged flies)

INSECTA
(true insects)

HEXAPODA
(insects and other 6-legged organisms)

ARTHROPODA
(arthropods)

ANIMALIA
(animals)

Eukaryota
(eukaryotes)

BIOTA
(living things)

NBN (data.nbn.org.uk) has a distribution map for BIBIONIDAE (St Mark’s flies, fever flies)

BioInfo (www.bioinfo.org.uk) has 0 host/parasite/foodplant and/or other relationships for BIBIONIDAE (St Mark’s flies, fever flies)

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Taxonomic hierarchy:

BIBIONIDAE is also a member of:

Identification Works

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