Full reference: E. Newman. 1834. Attempted division of British insect into natural orders. The Entomological Magazine 2:379-431
Parent taxon: Psychodomorpha according to D. K. Yeates et al. 2007
See also Kovalev 1986
Sister taxa: Deuterophlebiidae, Psychodoidea, Ptychopteroidea, Tanyderoidea
Subtaxa: Canthyloscelidae Protoscatopsidae Scatopsidae Valeseguyidae
Ecology:
Distribution:
• Miocene of the Dominican Republic (5 collections), Ethiopia (1), Mexico (8)
• Eocene of France (1), Poland (1), the Russian Federation (2), the United Kingdom (2), United States (5: Colorado, Montana)
• Paleocene to Eocene of the Czech Republic (1)
• Cretaceous of Australia (1), France (1), Mongolia (2), Myanmar (2)
• Jurassic of Kazakhstan (1), the Russian Federation (2)
Total: 35 collections including 41 occurrences