Insecta - Diptera - Ptychopteridae
Synonyms: Architendipedidae Rohdendorf 1962, Eolimnobiidae Rohdendorf 1962, Eoptychopteridae Handlirsch 1906
Parent taxon: Ptychopteromorpha according to L. X. Liu et al. 2012
See also Bode 1953, Carpenter 1992, Evenhuis 1994, Handlirsch 1906, Kalugina 1985, Kalugina 1992, Krzemiński 1992, Krzemiński et al. 2015, Lukashevich 1999, Lukashevich et al. 1998, Pape et al. 2011 and Yeates et al. 2007
Sister taxa: Ansorgiidae, Eoptychopteroidea, Tanyderophrynidae
Subtaxa: Bittacomorphinae Bolboia Eoptychopterinae Etoptychoptera Etoptychopterinae Proptychopterininae Ptychopterinae
Ecology:
Distribution:
• Miocene of the Czech Republic (1 collection), France (1)
• Eocene of Canada (1: British Columbia), China (1), Denmark (4), the Russian Federation (2), United States (1: Colorado)
• Cretaceous of Brazil (1), Lebanon (2), Myanmar (1), the Russian Federation (7), Spain (2), the United Kingdom (6), United States (1: North Carolina)
• Jurassic of China (7), Germany (10), Kazakhstan (7), Kyrgyzstan (4), Mongolia (4), the Russian Federation (9), the United Kingdom (1)
• Triassic of Germany (1)
Total: 74 collections including 139 occurrences