Family Ironomyiidae McAlpine and Martin 1966 (ironic fly)
Insecta - Diptera - Ironomyiidae
Full reference: J. F. McAlpine and J. E. H. Martin. 1966. Systematics of Sciadoceridae and relatives with descriptions of two new genera and species from Canadian amber and erection of family Ironomyiidae (Diptera: Phoroidea). The Canadian Entomologist 98:527-544
Parent taxon: Platypezoidea according to B. M. Wiegmann et al. 2011
See also Carpenter 1992 and Grimaldi and Cumming 1999
Sister taxa: Lithopetia, Opetiala, Opetiidae, Phoridae, Platypezidae
Subtaxa: Cretonomyiinae Proironia Sinolestinae
Ecology:
Distribution:
• Cretaceous of Canada (1: Manitoba collection), China (2), Mongolia (1), Myanmar (2), the Russian Federation (11)
Total: 17 collections including 40 occurrences