Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Arthropoda > Subphylum Crustacea > Superclass Allotriocarida > Subphylum Hexapoda > Class Insecta > Infraclass Pterygota

Diptera

Rank: Order
Taxon Status: accepted

Children

Brachycera
Nematocera

Vernaculars (+) (-)

Danish: brachycera sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Dutch: tweevleugeligen

English: two-winged flies sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

French: diptères

German: Zweiflügler

Japanese: ハエ／双翅目 sources: Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology. (2009 onwards). Biological Information System for Marine Life (BISMaL). Accessed on 2018-11-21.

Swedish: tvåvingar sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Ukrainian: Двокрилі

Literature

basis of record	Legakis, A. (2001). Insecta, in: Costello, M.J. et al. (Ed.) (2001). European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Collection Patrimoines Naturels, 50: pp. 323-324
additional source	Hayward, P.J. & J.S. Ryland (Eds.). (1990). The marine fauna of the British Isles and North-West Europe: 1. Introduction and protozoans to arthropods. Clarendon Press: Oxford, UK. 627 pp.
ecology source	Edwards, F. W. (1926). 38. On Marine Chironomidae (Diptera); with Descriptions of a New Genus and four New Species from Samoa. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London. 96(3): 779-806.