Insecta - Diptera - Paraxymyiidae
Synonym: Parapleciidae Hong 1983
Full reference: B. B. Rohdendorf. 1946. Evolyutsiya kryla i filogenez dlinnousykh dvukrylykh Oligoneura (Diptera, Nematocera). Akademiya Nauk SSSR, Trudy Paleontologicheskogo Instituta 13:1-108
Parent taxon: Sciaroidea according to V. Blagoderov and D. A. Grimaldi 2007
See also Carpenter 1992, Hong 1983 and Pape et al. 2011
Sister taxa: Archizelmiridae, Baisepesthoneura, Bolitophila pulveris, Bolitophilidae, Burmatricha, Cecidomyiidae, Diadocidiidae, Ditomyiidae, Keroplatidae, Mycetophilidae, Pleciofungivoridae, Sciara florissantensis, Sciara gurnetensis, Sciara protoberidis, Sciaridae, Sinoscatopse, Thereotricha
Subtaxa: Arcus Eomycetophilinae Fera Paraplecia Paraxymyia Paraxymyiinae Veriplecia Virginiptera
Type: Paraxymyia
Ecology:
Distribution:
• Jurassic of China (1 collection), Kazakhstan (1), Kyrgyzstan (1), Mongolia (1), the Russian Federation (1)
• Triassic of Australia (1), United States (2: North Carolina)
Total: 8 collections including 14 occurrences