Family Tanypezidae Rondani 1856 (fly)
Insecta - Diptera - Tanypezidae
Parent taxon: Nerioidea according to O. Lonsdale 2020
See also Wiegmann et al. 2011
Sister taxa: Cypselosomatidae, Micropezidae, Neriidae, Pseudopomyzidae
Subtaxa: Neotanypeza
Ecology:
Distribution: found only at Dominican amber (USNM Brodzinsky Lopez-Pena coll) (Miocene to Miocene of Dominican Republic)