Subfamily Metopininae Peterson 1887 (scuttle fly)
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
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