Figure above :  A male adult of the New Zealand glow-worm,  Arachnocampa  luminosa  (Fungivoridea-Ceroplatidae). This is a rare photograph of an elusive fly, but its appearance is typical of land-midges all over the world.
(After OLDROYD, 1964)

The fly depicted in the above Figure belongs to the family Ceroplatidae. And this family in turn belongs to the superfamily Fungivoridea of the infraorder Bibionomorpha, which means that it is not a tipuloid. While, with respect to body-shape, fungivorideans usually are more or less compact flies,  Arachnocampa  has a typical tipuloid look. Its wing-venation, however, is different from that of the tipuloids.