| NOUN | animal | fungus gnat, sciara, sciarid | minute blackish gregarious flies destructive to mushrooms / mushrooms and seedlings |
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| animal | fungus gnat | mosquito-like insect whose larvae feed on fungi or decaying vegetation |
| Meaning | minute blackish gregarious flies destructive to mushrooms / mushrooms and seedlings. | |
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| Synonyms | sciara, sciarid | |
| Member of | genus Sciara | type genus of the Sciaridae |
| Narrower | armyworm | larva of fungus gnat that feed on cereals and other grains |
| Broader | dipterous insect, two-winged insects, dipteran, dipteron | insects having usually a single pair of functional wings (anterior pair) with the posterior pair reduced to small knobbed structures and mouth parts adapted for sucking or lapping or piercing |
| Meaning | mosquito-like insect whose larvae feed on fungi or decaying vegetation. | |
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| Member of | Mycetophilidae, family Mycetophylidae | fungus gnats |
| Broader | dipterous insect, two-winged insects, dipteran, dipteron | insects having usually a single pair of functional wings (anterior pair) with the posterior pair reduced to small knobbed structures and mouth parts adapted for sucking or lapping or piercing |