Insecta - Diptera - Protopleciidae
Synonyms: Dyspolyneuridae Rohdendorf 1961, Palaeopleciidae Rohdendorf 1962, Phragmoligoneuridae Rohdendorf 1962, Pleciodictyidae Rohdendorf 1962, Protoligoneuridae Rohdendorf 1962
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: Mycetophiloidea according to V. G. Kovalev 1985
See also Blagoderov 1996, Carpenter 1992, Krzemiński 1992 and Pape et al. 2011
Sister taxa: Archipleciomima, Eoditomyidae, Sinoditomyiidae
Subtaxa: Dyspolyneura Epimesoplecia Hebeiplecia Huaxiapleciinae Mesoplecia Mesopleciella Palaeohesperinus guidongensis Palaeoplecia Paraoligus Pleciodictya Pleciopsis Protoligoneura Protoplecia Pseudoplecia Sinoplecia Sunoplecia
Ecology:
Distribution:
• Cretaceous of China (3 collections)
• Jurassic of China (8), Germany (3), Kazakhstan (3), Kyrgyzstan (3), Mongolia (2), the Russian Federation (3)
Total: 25 collections including 58 occurrences