Subfamily Scatopsinae Newman 1834 (minute black scavenger fly)
Insecta - Diptera - Scatopsidae
Full reference: E. Newman. 1834. Attempted division of British insect into natural orders. The Entomological Magazine 2:379-431
Parent taxon: Scatopsidae according to R. Szadziewski et al. 2022
See also Amorim 1994, Bramuzzo et al. 2017 and Hong 2002
Sister taxa: Ectaetiinae, Hoploscatopse, Psectrosciarinae
Subtaxa: Colobostematini Rhegmoclematini Scatopsini Swammerdamellini
Type: Scathopse
Ecology:
Distribution:
• Miocene of the Dominican Republic (5 collections), Ethiopia (1), Mexico (7)
• Eocene of France (1), Poland (1), the Russian Federation (1), the United Kingdom (2), United States (2: Colorado, Montana)
Total: 20 collections including 24 occurrences