Family Acroceridae Leach 1815 (spider fly)
Insecta - Diptera - Acroceridae
Parent taxon: Nemestrinoidea according to S. Shin et al. 2018
See also Carpenter 1992 and Grimaldi et al. 2011
Sister taxa: Nemestrinidae, Rhagionemestriidae
Subtaxa: Acrocerinae Archocyrtinae Cyrtinae Ogcodinae Philopotinae
Type: Acrocera
Ecology:
Distribution:
• Miocene of the Dominican Republic (3 collections)
• Eocene of Denmark (1), the Russian Federation (7)
• Cretaceous of Myanmar (1)
• Jurassic of Kazakhstan (2)
Total: 14 collections including 20 occurrences