Family Piophilidae Macquart 1835 (cheese skipper)
Insecta - Diptera - Piophilidae
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, Platystomatidae, Pyrgotidae, Richardiidae, Tephritidae, Ulidiidae
Subtaxa: Mycetaulus Piophila
Ecology:
Distribution: found only at Florissant, Station 13 (Eocene of Colorado)