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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Flies (Diptera) » "Nematocera" (Non-Brachycera) » Gnats, Gall Midges, and March Flies (Bibionomorpha) » Pachyneuridae

Family Pachyneuridae

Classification · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Explanation of Names · Numbers · Identification · Range · Habitat · Works Cited
Winter Cranefly? - Cramptonomyia spenceri - female Pachyneurid Fly - Cramptonomyia spenceri - male little fly - Cramptonomyia spenceri Is this a winter midge? - Cramptonomyia spenceri - male cranefly look-alike - Cramptonomyia spenceri Oregon Fly - Cramptonomyia spenceri - male Winter Crane Fly? - Cramptonomyia spenceri - female Cramptonomyia spenceri? - Cramptonomyia spenceri
Classification
Kingdom Animalia (Animals)
Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)
Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)
Class Insecta (Insects)
Order Diptera (Flies)
No Taxon ("Nematocera" (Non-Brachycera))
Infraorder Bibionomorpha (Gnats, Gall Midges, and March Flies)
Family Pachyneuridae
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
The family Cramptonomyiidae has been proposed for Pachyneuridae less Pachyneura.
Explanation of Names
Pachyneuridae Schiner 1864
Numbers
A single species in our area(1), 8 spp. in 7 genera total(2)
Identification
Three branches of R and M reach wing margin; crossvein between second and third branches of R in the North American species.
Range
in NA, BC-OR(1)
Habitat
Forests; larvae in rotting wood(1)
Works Cited
1.American Insects: A Handbook of the Insects of America North of Mexico
Ross H. Arnett. 2000. CRC Press.
2.Order Diptera Linnaeus, 1758. In: Zhang Z.-Q. (ed.) Animal biodiversity: An outline of higher-level classification...
Pape T., Blagoderov V., Mostovski M.B. 2011. Zootaxa 3148: 222–229.
Contributed by John F. Carr on 24 March, 2009 - 8:17pm
Additional contributions by v belov
Last updated 26 December, 2014 - 1:00am

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