Subfamily Metopininae Peterson 1887 (scuttle fly)

Insecta - Diptera - Phoridae

Parent taxon: Neophorida according to B. V. Brown et al. 2015

See also Grimaldi et al. 1989 and Statz 1940

Sister taxon: Phorinae

Subtaxa: Apocephalus Gymnophora Gymnophorini Latiarista Megaselia Metopinini Myriophora Puliciphora Sinophoritis

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Ecology:

Distribution:

• Quaternary of Ghana (1 collection), Madagascar (1), Tanzania (1)

• Miocene of China (1), the Dominican Republic (8), Mexico (1)

• Oligocene of France (2), Germany (1)

• Eocene of China (2), the Russian Federation (3)

Total: 21 collections including 39 occurrences

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