Sciara hemerobioides: taxon details and analytics
- Domain
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Class
- Insecta
- Order
- Diptera
- Family
- Sciaridae
- Genus
- Sciara
- Species
- Sciara hemerobioides
- Scientific Name
- Sciara hemerobioides
Summary description from Wikipedia:
Sciara hemerobioides
Sciara hemerobioides is a species of fly in the family Sciaridae. It is found in the Palearctic.
This species has a conspicuous yellow abdomen with a dark ventral band. It belongs to a group referred to as fungus gnats. The larvae do feed on fungi but also eat dead leaves and compost, the adults feed on nectar and can be found on umbellifers and other flowers.
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Parent Taxon
Sibling Taxa
- Sciara analis
- Sciara antigua
- Sciara barnardi
- Sciara capensis
- Sciara confusa
- Sciara differens
- Sciara helvola
- Sciara hemerobioides
- Sciara humeralis
- Sciara marcilla
- Sciara militaris
- Sciara penicillata
- Sciara prominens
- Sciara pubescens
- Sciara schultzei
- Sciara sclerocerci
- Sciara spinimana
- Sciara stigmatopleura
- Sciara thomsoni































































































































































