Insecta - Diptera - Limoniidae
Alternative spelling: Architipulidae
Full reference: A. Handlirsch. 1906. Die Fossilen Insekten und die Phylogenie der Rezenten Formen, parts I-IV. Ein Handbuch fur Palaontologen und Zoologen 1-640
Parent taxon: Limoniidae according to W. Krzemiński et al. 2025
See also Bode 1953, Carpenter 1992, Gao et al. 2015, Handlirsch 1906, Kalugina 1985, Kalugina 1986, Kalugina 1988, Kopeć 2018, Kopeć et al. 2020, Kopeć et al. 2017, Kopeć et al. 2018, Kopeć et al. 2021, Krzemiński 1992, Krzemiński and Kovalev 1988, Krzemiński and Zessin 1990, Lukashevich 2009, Shcherbakov 1995, Tillyard 1933 and Zhang 2006
Sister taxa: Allarithmia, Archilimoniinae, Calobamon, Chioneinae, Critoneura, Cyttaromyella, Dactylolabinae, Dicranota, Dictyodiptera, Dictyodiptera multinervis, Drinosinae, Eopolyneura, Eopolyneura tenuinervis, Eotipulinae, Haplotipula, Hottipula, Iyaiyai, Leptotipuloides, Limnocema, Limnophilinae, Limoniinae, Metarchilimonia, Palaeomacromastix, Palaeopoecilostola, Paradelphomyia, Paradictyodiptera, Paradictyodiptera trianalis, Pareopolyneura, Pareopolyneura costalis, Phyllolabis, Pronophlebia, Rhadinobrochus, Tanymera, Tanysphyra, Tipulodictya, Tipulodictya minima, Ula
Subtaxa: Architipula Cretolimonia Dipterodictya Grimmenia Mabelysia Mesotipula Mikrotipula Ozotipula
Type: Architipula
Ecology:
Distribution:
• Cretaceous of Mongolia (3 collections), Myanmar (1), the Russian Federation (2)
• Jurassic of China (4), Germany (11), Kazakhstan (1), Kyrgyzstan (2), Mongolia (3), the Russian Federation (5), the United Kingdom (4)
• Triassic of Kyrgyzstan (1), United States (1: North Carolina)
Total: 38 collections including 101 occurrences