Family Athericidae Stuckenberg 1973 (water snipe fly)

Insecta - Diptera - Athericidae

Parent taxon: Tabanomorpha according to S. Shin et al. 2018

See also Carpenter 1992, Wiegmann et al. 2011 and Yeates et al. 2007

Sister taxa: Atherhagiox, Bolbomyiidae, Galloatherix, Palaepangonius, Rhagionidae, Rhagionoidea, Tabanidae, Tabanoidea, Vermileonidae

Subtaxa: Atherix Atrichops Eoatrichops Notoatherix Qiyia Sinocretomyia Succinatherix

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Ecology:

Distribution:

• Eocene of Denmark (1 collection), France (1), the Russian Federation (2), United States (1: Colorado)

• Cretaceous of China (1)

• Jurassic of Australia (1), China (3)

Total: 10 collections including 11 occurrences

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