Insecta - Diptera - Trichoceridae
Synonym: Musidoromimidae Rohdendorf 1962
Full reference: K. Kertész. 1902. Catalogus Dipterorum Hucusque Descriptorum. Volumen II. Cecidomyiidae, Limnobiidae, Tipulidae, Cylindrotomidae 1-357
Parent taxon: Tipulomorpha according to B. M. Wiegmann et al. 2011
See also Carpenter 1992, Evenhuis 1994, Hong and Wang 1990, Kalugina 1985, Pape et al. 2011 and Yeates et al. 2007
Sister taxa: Paltostomopsis, Psychotipidae, Tipulodictyidae, Tipuloidea, Trichoceroidea, Vladipteridae, Xutipula
Subtaxa: Ewauristinae Kovalevinae Mesotrichocera Musidoromima Paracladurinae Trichocerinae
Type: Trichocera
Ecology:
Distribution:
• Miocene of Italy (1 collection), the Russian Federation (1), Switzerland (1)
• Oligocene of Germany (2)
• Eocene of Germany (1), Poland (2), the Russian Federation (3), United States (1: Colorado)
• Cretaceous of China (1), Lebanon (1), Mongolia (2), the Russian Federation (7), the United Kingdom (1)
• Jurassic of China (5), Germany (2), Kazakhstan (8), Kyrgyzstan (2), Mongolia (4), the Russian Federation (11)
Total: 56 collections including 150 occurrences