XYLOMYIDAE
(wood-soldierflies)

Taxonomic hierarchy:

Family	XYLOMYIDAE (wood-soldierflies)
Superfamily	STRATIOMYOIDEA (soldier flies)
Infraorder	Stratiomyomorpha (an infraorder of 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)

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

Identification Works

	Author	Year	Title	Source
	Brugge, B. (after)		Key to some European species of Xylomyidae	www.online-keys.net/infusions/keys/keys_view.php?key_no=10
	Falk, S.		Diptera (flies)	www.flickr.com/photos/63075200@N07/collections/72157629586945825/
	Oldroyd, H.	1969	* Diptera: Brachycera Sect (a) Tabanoidea and Asiloidea *(Superseded)	Handbooks for the Identification of British Insects, Vol IX.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
()	Reemer, M.	2014	Veldtabel wapen- en bastvliegen van Nederland (Diptera: Stratiomyidae & Xylomyidae)	56pp
	Séguy, E.	1926	* Diptères (Brachyhcéres) (Stratiomyiidae, Erinnidae, Coenomyiidae, Rhagionidae, Tabanidae, Codidae, Nemestrinidae, Mydaidae, Bombylidae, Therevidae, Omphralidae) *(Superseded)	Faune de France, Faune No 13, 308pp, Fédération Française des Sociétés de Science Naturel

XYLOMYIDAE (wood-soldierflies) may also be included in identification literature listed under the following higher taxa:

STRATIOMYOIDEA
(soldier 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 XYLOMYIDAE (wood-soldierflies)

BioInfo (www.bioinfo.org.uk) has 0 host/parasite/foodplant and/or other relationships for XYLOMYIDAE (wood-soldierflies)

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Taxonomic hierarchy:

XYLOMYIDAE is also a member of:

Identification Works

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