SCENOPINIDAE
(window flies)

Taxonomic hierarchy:

Family	SCENOPINIDAE (window flies)
Superfamily	ASILOIDEA (robber & assassin flies, bee flies, stiletto flies & window flies)
Infraorder	Asilomorpha (robber, bee, stiletto, window, dagger, long-legged & spider-parasite flies)
Suborder	BRACHYCERA (short-horned flies)
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)

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

Identification Works

	Author	Year	Title	Source
	Oldroyd, H.	1969	* Diptera: Brachycera Sect (a) Tabanoidea and Asiloidea *(Superseded)	Handbooks for the Identification of British Insects, Vol IX. Part 4, 132pp, The Royal Entomological Society of London
Stored Product Pests
	Mound, L. (ed)	1989	Common Insects of Stored Products: a guide to their identification	Economic Series, No 15, Seventh Edition edition, 68pp, British Museum (Natural History)

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

ASILOIDEA
(robber & assassin flies, bee flies, stiletto flies & window flies)

Asilomorpha
(robber, bee, stiletto, window, dagger, long-legged & spider-parasite flies)

BRACHYCERA
(short-horned flies)

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 SCENOPINIDAE (window flies)

BioInfo (www.bioinfo.org.uk) has 0 host/parasite/foodplant and/or other relationships for SCENOPINIDAE (window flies)

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Taxonomic hierarchy:

SCENOPINIDAE is also a member of:

Identification Works

Stored Product Pests

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