LESTREMIINAE
(wood midges)

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Campylomyza
a genus of wood midges
Genus 1 ident. refs
Taxonomic hierarchy:
SubfamilyLESTREMIINAE (wood midges)
FamilyCECIDOMYIIDAE (wood, gall, rust and aphid midges)
SuperfamilySCIAROIDEA (fungus gnats and gall midges)
InfraorderBibionomorpha (St Mark’s flies, fever flies)
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
() Hackston, M. 2013 Subfamily Lestremiinae: key to British genera and some species https://sites.google.com/site/mikesinsectkeys2/
() Jaschhof, M. & Jaschhof, C. 2009 The Wood Midges (Diptera: Cecidomyiidae: Lestremiinae) of Fennoscandia and Denmark - [Die Holzmücken (Diptera: Cecidomyiidae: Lestremiinae) von Fennoskandien und Dänemark] Studia Dipterologica Supplement 18.
() Jaschhof, M. 1998 Revision der Lestremiinae (Diptera: Cecidomyiidae) der Holarktis - [A Revision of the Holarctic "Lestremiinae" (Diptera, Cecidomyiidae)] Studia Dipterologica Supplement 4.

Micromyinae S.S.

() Hackston, M. 2013 Subfamily Micromyinae: key to genera occurring in Britain https://sites.google.com/site/mikesinsectkeys2/

LESTREMIINAE (wood midges) may also be included in identification literature listed under the following higher taxa:

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