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Definition of Sciaridae
1. Noun. Fungus gnats.
Generic synonyms: Arthropod Family
Group relationships: Nematocera, Suborder Nematocera
Member holonyms: Genus Sciara
Lexicographical Neighbors of Sciaridae
Literary usage of Sciaridae
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Biodiversity and the Management of the Madrean Archipelago: The Sky Islands edited by Leonard F. DeBano (1999)
"OTHER DIPTERA (CERATOPOGONIDAE, DIXIDAE, EMPIDIDAE, sciaridae, DOLICHOPODIDAE,
BIBIONIDAE, ... sciaridae probably are feeding on decaying plant material. ..."
2. International Catalogue of Scientific Literature by Royal Society (Great Britain) (1906)
"103 Description de trois genres nouveaux et de cinq espèces nouvelles de la
famille des sciaridae (diptères). Bruxelles, Ann. Soc. scient., 27, 1903. ..."
3. Anatomy of the Invertebrata by Carl Th. Ernst Siebold (1874)
"... larvae of the Mycetophilidae and sciaridae, and the acephalous ones of the
Diptera, the digestive canal is formed upon a wholly different 31 This caecum ..."