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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Diptera |
| Suborder: | Nematocera |
| Infraorder: | Bibionomorpha |
| Superfamily: | Anisopodoidea |
| Family: | Anisopodidae Knab, 1912 |
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The Anisopodidae are a small cosmopolitan family of gnat-like flies known as wood gnats or window-gnats, with 154 described extant species in 15 genera, and several described fossil taxa. Some species are saprophagous or fungivorous. They are mostly small to medium-sized flies, except the genera Olbiogaster and Lobogaster, which are large with bizarrely spatulated abdomens. Their phylogenetic placement is controversial. They have been proposed to be the sister group to the higher flies, the Brachycera.[1] Some authors consider this group to be four distinct families – Anisopodidae, Mycetobiidae, Olbiogastridae, and Valeseguyidae.[2]
- ^ P. Oosterbroek & G. Courtney (1995). "Phylogeny of the nematocerous families of Diptera (Insecta)" (PDF). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 115 (3): 267–311. doi:10.1006/zjls.1995.0080. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2011-09-27.
- ^ Dalton De Souza Amorim & David A. Grimaldi (2006). "Valeseguyidae, a new family of Diptera in the Scatopsoidea, with a new genus in Cretaceous amber from Myanmar" (PDF). Systematic Entomology. 31 (3): 508–516. doi:10.1111/j.1365-3113.2006.00326.x. S2CID 73583122.[permanent dead link]