Insecta - Diptera - Chaoboridae
Synonyms: Dixamimidae Rohdendorf 1962, Rhaetomyiidae Rohdendorf 1962
Parent taxon: Culicoidea according to D. K. Yeates et al. 2007
See also Carpenter 1992, Kalugina 1985, Kalugina 1986, Krzemiński 1992, Lukashevich 1996 and Pape et al. 2011
Sister taxa: Corethrellidae, Culicidae, Dixidae
Subtaxa: Chachotosha Chaoborinae Chaoborites Chaoburmus Chironomaptera Chironomapterinae Corethra exita Dixamima Eucorethrinae Gedanoborus Jordanobotomus Libanoborus Mesochaoborus Palaeomochlonyx Rhaetomyia Taimyborus Triassomyia
Ecology:
Distribution:
• Miocene of Australia (1 collection), New Zealand (1), Spain (1)
• Oligocene of Germany (1)
• Eocene of Poland (2), the Russian Federation (5), United States (3: Colorado, Mississippi, Montana)
• Cretaceous of Australia (1), China (22), Jordan (1), Lebanon (1), Mongolia (15), Myanmar (1), the Russian Federation (11), the United Kingdom (2)
• Jurassic of Germany (1), Kazakhstan (1), Kyrgyzstan (1), Mongolia (2), the Russian Federation (16)
• Triassic of Kyrgyzstan (1)
Total: 90 collections including 111 occurrences