Keroplatidae is a family of small flies known as fungus gnats. About 950 species are described, but the true number of species is undoubtedly much higher. The long-beaked fungus gnats, formerly placed in a separate family Lygistorrhinidae, have been placed into Keroplatidae as subfamily Lygistorrhininae.[1] They are generally forest dwellers found in the damp habitats favoured by their host fungi.[2] They can also often be found in caves. Larvae both feed on fungi and are predatory - they can spin webs by secreting acid fluids, which they use to kill smaller invertebrates and capture spores. Some of the predatory larvae cannibalize pupa of their own species.[3] The family notably includes three genera containing bioluminescent larvae.
The fossil record of the family extends back into the Cretaceous, with the oldest named member, Lebanognoriste known from the Barremian aged Lebanese amber, other Cretaceous species are known from the Spanish, Burmese, Bezonnais, Taimyr and Canadian ambers.
^Greenwalt, D.; Kjærandsen, J. (2019). "Fungus Gnats Online". Retrieved 22 June 2023.
^Evenhuis, N. L. (2006). "Catalog of the Keroplatidae of the World (Insecta: Diptera)" (PDF). Bishop Museum Bulletins in Entomology. 13. Bishop Museum Press, Honolulu.: 1–178. Retrieved 21 October 2014.
Keroplatidae is a family of small flies known as fungus gnats. About 950 species are described, but the true number of species is undoubtedly much higher...
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other sheltered, wet areas. They are usually classified under the family Keroplatidae, but this is not universally accepted and some authors place them under...
"Ecology of the New Zealand Glowworm, Arachnocampa luminosa (Diptera: Keroplatidae), in the Glowworm Cave, Waitomo". Journal of the Royal Society of New...
threads to ensnare prey. The genus Arachnocampa belongs in the family Keroplatidae. Arachnocampa species have holometabolous metamorphosis with eggs, larvae...
"Literature review of the New Zealand glowworm Arachnocampa luminosa (Diptera: Keroplatidae) and related cave-dwelling Diptera" (PDF). New Zealand Entomologist....
within the superfamily Sciaroidea such as the Mycetophilidae and some Keroplatidae feed on fungal fruiting bodies and sterile mycorrhizae. Many fungi are...
family Keroplatidae. The groups was long treated as a separate family, but molecular phylogenetic analysis has shown it to belong to Keroplatidae. There...
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except in Africa and Antarctica. They are usually considered close to the Keroplatidae, Bolitophilidae, and Ditomyiidae, and used to be included in the Mycetophilidae...
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form plant galls (many Cecidomyiidae) or prey on other invertebrates (Keroplatidae). A 2016 molecular phylogenetic analysis confirmed that Sciaroidea is...
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