Family Scatopsidae Newman 1834 (minute black scavenger fly)
Insecta - Diptera - Scatopsidae
Full reference: E. Newman. 1834. Attempted division of British insect into natural orders. The Entomological Magazine 2:379-431
Parent taxon: Scatopsoidea according to D. K. Yeates et al. 2007
See also Carpenter 1992
Sister taxa: Canthyloscelidae, Protoscatopsidae, Valeseguyidae
Subtaxa: Ectaetiinae Hoploscatopse Psectrosciarinae Scatopsinae
Type: Scathopse
Ecology:
Distribution:
• Miocene of the Dominican Republic (5 collections), Ethiopia (1), Mexico (8)
• Eocene of France (1), Poland (1), the Russian Federation (2), the United Kingdom (2), United States (4: Colorado, Montana)
• Paleocene to Eocene of the Czech Republic (1)
• Cretaceous of France (1), Myanmar (1)
Total: 27 collections including 32 occurrences