Family Tephritidae Newman 1834 (fruit fly)
Insecta - Diptera - Tephritidae
Full reference: E. Newman. 1834. Attempted division of British insect into natural orders. The Entomological Magazine 2:379-431
Parent taxon: Tephritoidea according to H. Y. Han and K. E. Ro 2016
See also Carpenter 1992 and Wiegmann et al. 2011
Sister taxa: Herina splendida, Lonchaeidae, Pallopteridae, Piophilidae, Platystomatidae, Pyrgotidae, Richardiidae, Ulidiidae
Subtaxa: Blepharoneurinae Cesaspheniscus Psilites Tephritinae Tephritis Trypetinae
Ecology:
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Tanzania (1 collection)
• Miocene of Croatia (2), the Dominican Republic (3), Italy (1), the Russian Federation (1)
• Eocene of China (1)
Total: 9 collections including 11 occurrences