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Sciaridae 
Taxonomic Serial No.: 122702

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 Taxonomy and Nomenclature
       
  Kingdom: Animalia  
  Taxonomic Rank: Family  
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  Common Name(s): dark-winged fungus gnats
 
    root gnats
 
       
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  Current Standing: valid  
       
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  Record Credibility Rating: unverified  
  Global Species Completeness: unknown   
  Latest Record Review: unknown   
       

 Taxonomic Hierarchy
       
 KingdomAnimalia  – Animal, animaux, animals  
    SubkingdomBilateria  – triploblasts  
       InfrakingdomProtostomia   
          SuperphylumEcdysozoa   
             PhylumArthropoda  – Artrópode, arthropodes, arthropods  
                SubphylumHexapoda  – hexapods  
                   ClassInsecta  – insects, hexapoda, inseto, insectes  
                      SubclassPterygota  – insects ailés, winged insects  
                         InfraclassNeoptera  – modern, wing-folding insects  
                            SuperorderHolometabola   
                               OrderDiptera  – mosca, mosquito, gnats, mosquitoes, true flies  
                                  SuborderNematocera  – long-horned flies  
                                     InfraorderBibionomorpha   
                                        FamilySciaridae  – dark-winged fungus gnats, root gnats  
    Direct Children:  
                                           GenusBradysia   
                                           GenusChaetosciara   
                                           GenusCorynoptera   
                                           GenusEdidapus   
                                           GenusEugnoriste   
                                           GenusHyperlasion Schmitz  
                                           GenusLycoriella   
                                           GenusMetangela   
                                           GenusMoehnia   
                                           GenusOdontosciara   
                                           GenusPhytosciara   
                                           GenusPlastosciara   
                                           GenusPnyxia   
                                           GenusPseudosciara   
                                           GenusRhynchosciara   
                                           GenusScatopsciara   
                                           GenusSchwenkfeldina   
                                           GenusSciara   
                                           GenusScythropochroa   
                                           GenusSpathobdella Frey  
                                           GenusZygoneura   
       

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  Source: NODC Taxonomic Code, database (version 8.0)  
  Acquired: 1996   
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  Reference for: Sciaridae, dark-winged fungus gnats   
       
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