TRICHOCERIDAE
(winter gnats)

Taxonomic hierarchy:

Family	TRICHOCERIDAE (winter gnats)
Superfamily	TRICHOCEROIDEA (winter gnats)
Infraorder	Psychodomorpha (owl midges or moth flies, winter & window gnats, scatopsids)
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)

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

Identification Works

Author	Year	Title	Source
Coe, R.L., Freeman, P. & Mattingley, P.F.	1950	Diptera: Nematocera: families Tipulidae to Chironomidae	Handbooks for the Identification of British Insects, Vol IX. Part 2, 216pp, The Royal Entomological Society of London
Pierre, C.	1924	* Diptères; Tipulidae *(Superseded)	Faune de France, Vol 8, 159pp
Stubbs, A.E.	1997	Tipulidae (in prep)

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

TRICHOCEROIDEA
(winter gnats)

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 TRICHOCERIDAE (winter gnats)

BioInfo (www.bioinfo.org.uk) has 0 host/parasite/foodplant and/or other relationships for TRICHOCERIDAE (winter gnats)

This website is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International Licence.

Unless otherwise expressly stated, all original material on the BioImages website by Malcolm Storey is licensed under the above Creative Commons Licence.

Photographs from other photographers are used with permission but not included under the above CC licence.

Taxonomic hierarchy:

TRICHOCERIDAE is also a member of:

Identification Works

BioImages - Virtual Field-Guide (UK)