Insecta - Diptera - Ptychopteridae

Full reference: A. Handlirsch. 1909. Zur Phylogenie und Flügelmorphologie der Ptychopteriden (Dipteren). Annalen des Kaiserlich-Königlichen Naturhistorischen Hofmuseums 23:263-272

Parent taxon: Eoptychopteridae according to N. L. Evenhuis 1994

See also Carpenter 1992 and Handlirsch 1910

Sister taxa: Bittacomorphinae, Eoptychopterinae, Etoptychopterinae, Ptychopterinae, Bolboia, Proptychopterininae

Subtaxa: Etoptychoptera tertiaria

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Type: Etoptychoptera tertiaria

Ecology:

Distribution: found only at Tulameen river, opposite Vermilion bluff (Eocene of British Columbia)

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