Superfamily Scatopsoidea Newman 1834 (fly)

Insecta - Diptera

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: Psychodoidea, Ptychopteroidea, Tanyderoidea

Subtaxa: Canthyloscelidae Protoscatopsidae Scatopsidae Valeseguyidae

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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

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