| system | Vitae - living organisms |
| domain | Eukaryota Whittaker & Margulis, 1978 - lifeforms with nucletic cells |
| superregnum | Unikonta |
| system | Opisthokonta Cavalier-Smith, 1987 |
| kingdom | Animalia Linnaeus, 1758 - animals |
| subregnum | Eumetazoa Butschli, 1910 |
| divisio | Bilateria Hatschek, 1888 |
| subdivisio | Protostomia Grobben, 1908 - protostomes |
| phylum | Arthropoda - Arthropods |
| subphylum | Hexapoda Blainville, 1816 |
| class | Insecta - Insects |
| subclass | Pterygota |
| infraclass | Neoptera Martynov, 1923 |
| cohors | Holometabola |
| order | Diptera Linnaeus, 1758 - true flies, mosquitoes and gnats |
| suborder | Nematocera Berthold, 1827 |
| infraorder | Tipulomorpha Rohdendorf, 1946 |
| superfamily | Tipuloidea Hendel & Beier, 1938 |
| family | Cylindrotomidae Schiner, 1863 |
| subfamily | Cylindrotominae van der Wulp, 1877 |
| genus | Cylindrotoma Macquart, 1834 |
| species | Cylindrotoma deserrata Alexander, 1972 |