Sciaridae latin , auch: dark-winged fungus gnats

The use of cedar wood chips is one way to keep Sciaridae away from plants.

In moist and shadowy areas, up to 70% of all dipteran species can be Sciaridae.

Corynoptera is a genus of fungus gnats in the family Sciaridae.

The Sciaridae are a family of flies, commonly known as dark-winged fungus gnats.

The Sciaridae practice paternal genome elimination, whereby the male passes on only the genetic material of his mother to his offspring.

Virus-chromosome relationships in cells of Rhynchosciara (Diptera, Sciaridae).

Fungus gnats (Sciaridae and Mycetophilidae) are the principle pollinators of Scoliopus bigelovii.

Some species of fungus gnats (families Mycetophilidae and Sciaridae) are pests of mushrooms and roots of potted plants in homes and greenhouses.

They are visited by Sciaridae fungus gnats for nectar, and it is possible that these animals are key pollinators at least for Contra Costa Goldfields (L. conjugens).

Many of the remaining families (especially Mycetophilidae, Anisopodidae and Sciaridae), are called gnats, while others (especially Chironomidae, Cecidomyiidae and Ceratopogonidae) are called midges.

Schwenckfeldina archoica is an extinct species of dark winged fungus gnat in the family Sciaridae known from a solitary Late Oligocene to Early Miocene fossil found in Mexico.

Harald Plachter, 1983 Cave-dwelling flies in Central Europe: adaptation to environment, especially to low temperatures (Diptera, Nematocera: Trichoceridae et Sciaridae) Oecologia Volume 58, Number 3, 367-372.

Fungus gnats are small, dark, short-lived flies, of the families Sciaridae, Diadocidiidae, Ditomyiidae, Keroplatidae, Bolitophilidae, and Mycetophilidae (order Diptera); they are sometimes placed in the superfamily Mycetophiloidea.

The Sciaridae occur worldwide, even in extreme habitats such as subantarctic islands and mountainous regions above 4,000 m. Others (such as Parapnyxia) are found in deserts, where they dig into the sand at extreme temperatures.

An alternative conclusion is that members of one particular insect family, Sciaridae, are also efficient pollinators of L. conjugens, since it was the only insect family to visit the restoration colonies in significant numbers (the specialist bees are absent from these areas).