Insecta - Diptera - Limoniidae
Synonym: Hexatominae Hendel and Beier 1938
Full reference: J. M. F. Bigot. 1854. Essai d’une classification générale et synoptique de l’ordre des insectes diptères. 3e mémoire. Annales de la Société Scientifique de France, Troisième Série 2:447-482
Parent taxon: Limoniidae according to D. Santos et al. 2024
See also Krzemiński 1991, Krzemiński 2000, Krzemiński and Gentilini 1992, Krzemiński 2019, Krzemiński et al. 2021, Podenas 2003, Podenas and Poinar 2001, Podenas and Weiterschan 2011 and Ribeiro 2008
Sister taxa: Allarithmia, Archilimoniinae, Architipulinae, Calobamon, Chioneinae, Critoneura, Cyttaromyella, Dactylolabinae, Dicranota, Dipterodictya, Drinosinae, Ellipteroides, Eotipulinae, Haplotipula, Hottipula, Iyaiyai, Leptotipuloides, Limnocema, Limoniinae, Metarchilimonia, Palaeomacromastix, Palaeopoecilostola, Paradelphomyia, Phyllolabis, Pronophlebia, Rhadinobrochus, Tanymera, Tanysphyra, Ula
Subtaxa: Afrolimnophila Austrolimnophila Eloeophila Epiphragma Gurnardia Gynoplistia Hexatoma Limnophila Neolimnomyia Phylidorea Pilaria Polymera Pseudolimnophila Tonnoirella
Type: Limnophila
Ecology:
Distribution:
• Miocene of Australia (1 collection), the Dominican Republic (3), Italy (2), New Zealand (1)
• Oligocene of France (2), Germany (3)
• Eocene of Denmark (1), Poland (1), the Russian Federation (13), the United Kingdom (4), United States (1: Colorado)
• Paleocene of Canada (1: Alberta)
• Cretaceous of Myanmar (2), the United Kingdom (1)
Total: 36 collections including 87 occurrences