The Nematocera are a suborder of elongated flies with thin, segmented antennae and mostly aquatic larvae. Major families in the suborder include the mosquitoes, crane flies, gnats, black flies, and a group of families described as midges.
Fungus gnats are small, dark, short-lived gnats, of the families Sciaridae, Diadocidiidae, Ditomyiidae, Keroplatidae, Bolitophilidae, and Mycetophilidae ; they comprise six of the seven families placed in the superfamily Sciaroidea.
Sciara is a genus of fungus gnats in the family Sciaridae.
Sciaroidea is a superfamily in the infraorder Bibionomorpha. There are about 16 families and more than 15,000 described species in Sciaroidea. Most of its constituent families are various gnats.
Bradysia austera is a species of fungus gnat found in the British Isles.
Bradysia ismayi is a species of fungus gnat found in the British Isles.
Bradysia nigrispina is a species of fungus gnat found in the British Isles.
Epidapus subgracilis is a species of fungus gnats found in the British Isles.
A gnat is any of many species of tiny flying insects in the dipterid suborder Nematocera, especially those in the families Mycetophilidae, Anisopodidae and Sciaridae. They can be both biting and non-biting. Most often they fly in large numbers, called clouds. "Gnat" is a loose descriptive category rather than a phylogenetic or other technical term, so there is no scientific consensus on what constitutes a gnat.
Sciara hemerobioides is a species of fly in the family Sciaridae. It is found in the Palearctic.
Sciophilinae is a subfamily of fungus gnats. There are at least 40 genera and 340 described species in Sciophilinae.
Sciophila is a genus of fungus gnats in the family Mycetophilidae. There are at least 50 described species in Sciophila.
Pnyxia scabiei, the potato scab gnat, is a species of dark-winged fungus gnats, insects in the family Sciaridae.
Pnyxia is a genus of dark-winged fungus gnats, insects in the family Sciaridae. There are at least four described species in Pnyxia.
Odontosciara nigra is a species of dark-winged fungus gnats in the family Sciaridae.
Odontosciara is a genus of dark-winged fungus gnats in the family Sciaridae. There are at least 30 described species in Odontosciara.
Bradysia is a genus of fungus gnat in the family Sciaridae. They are commonly known as darkwinged fungus gnats. They are considered a major pest in greenhouse agriculture because they thrive in the moist conditions common inside greenhouses and feed on the plants being grown within. Bradysia is a large genus containing over 500 living species, with at least 65 species found in North America and 172 in Europe.
