Overview
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The Pediciidae or Hairy-eyed Craneflies, are a family of flies closely related to true crane flies. There are about 500 species worldwide.
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- Subfamily Pediciinae
- Subfamily Ulinae
- Ula Haliday, 1833
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- Subfamily Pediciinae
- Subfamily Ulinae
- Ula Haliday, 1833
References
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Taxonomy
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The Family Pediciidae is a member of the Superfamily Tipuloidea. Here is the complete "parentage" of Pediciidae:
- Domain: Eukaryota
Whittaker & Margulis,1978 - eukaryotes
- Kingdom: Animalia
C. Linnaeus, 1758 - animals
- Subkingdom: Bilateria
(Hatschek, 1888) Cavalier-Smith, 1983 - bilaterians
- Branch: Protostomia
Grobben, 1908 - protostomes
- Infrakingdom: Ecdysozoa
A.M.A. Aguinaldo et al., 1997 ex T. Cavalier-Smith, 1998 - ecdysozoans
- Superphylum: Panarthropoda
Cuvier
- Phylum: Arthropoda
Latreille, 1829 - Arthropods
- Subphylum: Mandibulata
Snodgrass, 1938
- Infraphylum: Atelocerata
Heymons, 1901
- Superclass: Panhexapoda
- Class: Insecta
C. Linnaeus, 1758 - Insects
- Subclass: Dicondylia
- Infraclass: Pterygota
- Winged Insects
- Superorder: Panorpida
- Order: Diptera
(DIP-ter-uh)
C. Linnaeus, 1758
- Suborder: Nematocera
- a genus of Flies (Diptera)
- Infraorder: Tipulomorpha
- Superfamily: Tipuloidea
- Family: Pediciidae - Pediciid Crane Flies
- Superfamily: Tipuloidea
- Infraorder: Tipulomorpha
- Suborder: Nematocera
- a genus of Flies (Diptera)
- Order: Diptera
(DIP-ter-uh)
C. Linnaeus, 1758
- Superorder: Panorpida
- Infraclass: Pterygota
- Winged Insects
- Subclass: Dicondylia
- Class: Insecta
C. Linnaeus, 1758 - Insects
- Superclass: Panhexapoda
- Infraphylum: Atelocerata
Heymons, 1901
- Subphylum: Mandibulata
Snodgrass, 1938
- Phylum: Arthropoda
Latreille, 1829 - Arthropods
- Superphylum: Panarthropoda
Cuvier
- Infrakingdom: Ecdysozoa
A.M.A. Aguinaldo et al., 1997 ex T. Cavalier-Smith, 1998 - ecdysozoans
- Branch: Protostomia
Grobben, 1908 - protostomes
- Subkingdom: Bilateria
(Hatschek, 1888) Cavalier-Smith, 1983 - bilaterians
- Kingdom: Animalia
C. Linnaeus, 1758 - animals
The Family Pediciidae is further organized into finer groupings including:
- Genus (5): Heterangaeus · Malaisemyia · Nipponomyia · Savchenkoiana · Tricyphona
- Species: ZipcodeZoo has pages for 169 species and subspecies in the Family Pediciidae.
Genera
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Heterangaeus
Malaisemyia
Nipponomyia
Savchenkoiana
Tricyphona
At least 138 species and subspecies belong to the Genus Tricyphona.
More info about the Genus Tricyphona may be found here.
Sources
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