Insecta - Diptera - Simuliidae
Full reference: E. Newman. 1834. Attempted division of British insect into natural orders. The Entomological Magazine 2:379-431
Parent taxon: Simulioidea according to M. A. Bertone et al. 2008
See also Carpenter 1992, Kalugina 1986 and Yeates et al. 2007
Sister taxa: Kaluginamyiidae, Thaumaleidae
Subtaxa: Gymnopaidinae Inseliellum Kovalevimyiinae Nevermannia Simuliinae Simuliites Simulimima Simulium
Ecology:
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Cook Islands (2 collections), French Polynesia (2), Greenland (1), the United Kingdom (4)
• Oligocene of Germany (2)
• Eocene of Poland (1), the Russian Federation (6), Ukraine (2), the United Kingdom (1)
• Cretaceous of Australia (1), the Russian Federation (6), United States (1: New Jersey)
• Jurassic of the Russian Federation (3)
Total: 32 collections including 42 occurrences