Mycomyinae

Mycomyinae
Mycomya quadrimaculata
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Clade: Pancrustacea
Class: Insecta
Order: Diptera
Family: Mycetophilidae
Subfamily: Mycomyinae
Edwards, 1925

Mycomyinae is a subfamily of fungus gnats in the family Mycetophilidae. As of 2025, it consists of 10 genera and over 600 species.

Diagnosis

This subfamily can be separated from the other mycetophiloid families and subfamilies based on the following characteristics: The veins of M and Cu fork separate to wing base, fine tibial setae in regular rows, middle ocellus absent, empodia absent, and wing membrane without macrotrichia.

The pupa is immobile with distinctly strengthened integument and pedothecae tightly bound to the body.

Genera

The 10 genera are as follows:

In 2025, the genus Vecella was determined to be a junior synonym of Parempheriella and is therefore not included in the list above.

References

  1. ↑ Kaspřák, David; Kerr, Peter; Sýkora, Vít; Tóthová, Andrea; Ševčík, Jan (2018-07-10). "Molecular phylogeny of the fungus gnat subfamilies Gnoristinae and Mycomyinae, and their position within Mycetophilidae (Diptera)". Systematic Entomology. 44 (1): 128–138. doi:10.1111/syen.12312. ISSN 0307-6970.
  2. 1 2 Amorim, Dalton de Souza; Oliveira, Sarah Siqueira; Balbi, Maria Isabel P. A.; Ang, Yuchen; Torres, Ambrosio; Yeo, Darren; Srivathsan, Amrita; Meier, Rudolf (2025-12-30). "An integrative taxonomic treatment of the Mycetophilidae of Singapore reveals 115 new species from just 730 km2 (Diptera: Bibionomorpha)". Integrative Systematics: Stuttgart Contributions to Natural History. 8 (3). doi:10.18476/2025.752376. ISSN 2628-2380.
  3. 1 2 Väisänen, Rauno (1984). "A monograph of the genus Mycomya Rondani in the Holarctic region (Diptera, Mycetophilidae)" (PDF). Acta Zoologica Fennica. 177. Finnish Zoological Publishing Board: 1–346. ISBN 951-9481-22-2. ISSN 0001-7299.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: periodical has ISBN (link)
  4. ↑ GAMMELMO, ØIVIND (2004-09-01). "A review of the Afrotropical genus Mycomyiella Matile, 1973 (Diptera, Mycetophilidae, Mycomyini), with the description of six new species". Zootaxa. 625 (1). doi:10.11646/zootaxa.625.1.1. ISSN 1175-5334.