Insecta - Diptera - Psychodidae
Full reference: C. P. Alexander. 1920. A new subfamily of tanyderid flies (Diptera). Annals of the Entomological Society of America 13:402-407
Parent taxon: Psychodidae according to K. Skibińska et al. 2023
See also Alexander 1920, Azar et al. 2022, Skibińska et al. 2019, Skibińska et al. 2020, Stebner et al. 2015, Wagner et al. 2021 and Wagner and Stuckenberg 2012
Sister taxa: Bamara, Cretapsychoda, Culex proavitus, Datziinae, Eochaoborites, Eophlebotomus, Horaiellinae, Liassopsychodina, Libanopsychoda, Mesopsychoda, Paraculicoides, Paraculicoides rouseae, Phlebotominae, Plebotomites, Plebotomus, Posthon, Psychodinae, Psychodites, Sycoracinae, Tanyderinae, Tanypsycha, Triassopsychoda, Trichomyiinae, Xenopsychoda, Protoplasa, Tanyderites
Subtaxa: Boreofairchildia Hoffeinsodes Libanonemopalpus Nemopalpus Palaeoglaesum Palaeosycorax
Ecology:
Distribution:
• Miocene of the Dominican Republic (3 collections)
• Eocene of Poland (1), the Russian Federation (4), United States (1: Montana)
• Cretaceous of Lebanon (1), Myanmar (5)
Total: 15 collections including 34 occurrences