PTYCHOPTERIDAE
(a family of craneflies)

PTYCHOPTERIDAE (a family of craneflies) may be included in 'feeds on' relations listed under the following higher taxa:

PTYCHOPTERIDAE (a family of craneflies) may be included in 'fed on by' relations listed under the following higher taxa:

Taxonomic hierarchy:
FamilyPTYCHOPTERIDAE (a family of craneflies)
SuperfamilyPTYCHOPTEROIDEA (a group of craneflies)
InfraorderPtychopteromorpha (a group of craneflies)
SuborderNEMATOCERA (thread-horned flies, gnat)
OrderDIPTERA (two-winged flies)
Division Endopterygota (bees, beetles, flies, moths and other insects with wings developing internally)
InfraclassNeoptera (bees, beetles, flies, grasshoppers, moths and other advanced insects)
SubclassPTERYGOTA (bees, beetles, dragonflies, flies, grasshoppers, moths and other winged insects)
ClassINSECTA (true insects)
SubphylumHEXAPODA (insects and other 6-legged organisms)
PhylumARTHROPODA (arthropods)
SuperphylumECDYSOZOA (skin shedders)
CladeBilateria (bilaterally symmetrical animals)
SubkingdomEUMETAZOA (metazoans)
KingdomANIMALIA (animals)
DomainEukaryota (eukaryotes)
LifeBIOTA (living things)
NBNNBN (data.nbn.org.uk) has a distribution map for PTYCHOPTERIDAE (a family of craneflies)

Identification Works

Handling & MagnificationAuthorYearTitleSource
Andersson, H. Diptera Ptychopteridae, Phantom Crane Flies Andersson, H. Diptera Ptychopteridae, Phantom Crane Flies, 15pp, Aquatic Insects of North Europe
Coe, R.L., Freeman, P. & Mattingley, P.F. 1950 Diptera: Nematocera: families Tipulidae to Chironomidae Handbooks for the Identification of British Insects, Vol IX. Part 2, 216pp, The Royal Entomological Society of London
Stubbs, A.E. 1997 Tipulidae (in prep)
Stubbs, A.E. 1993 Provisional Atlas of the Ptychopterid Craneflies (Diptera: Ptychopteridae) of Britain and Ireland 34pp, Biological Records Centre

Larvae

Andersson, H. Diptera Ptychopteridae, Phantom Crane Flies Andersson, H. Diptera Ptychopteridae, Phantom Crane Flies, 15pp, Aquatic Insects of North Europe

PTYCHOPTERIDAE (a family of craneflies) may also be included in identification literature listed under the following higher taxa:

Literature listed under the following higher taxa may be relevant to PTYCHOPTERIDAE (a family of craneflies):

BioImagesBioImages (www.bioimages.org.uk) has 39 images of PTYCHOPTERIDAE (a family of craneflies)
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