Insecta - Diptera - Bibionidae
Full reference: J. Fleming. 1821. Insecta. Supplement to the Fourth, Fifth and Sixth Editions of the Encyclopaedia Britannica 5:41-56
Parent taxon: Bibionoidea according to A. Nel et al. 2019
See also Bode 1953, Carpenter 1992, Cockerell 1921, Handlirsch 1906, Hong 1984, Hong and Wang 1985, Meunier 1923, Nel 1994, Pongrácz 1931, Skartveit 2009, Yeates et al. 2007 and Zeuner 1941
Sister taxon: Prohousea
Subtaxa: Bibio elongatus Bibio incrassatus Bibio linearis Bibio robustus Bibioninae Burmahesperininae Cretobibioninae Dilophus magnus Hesperininae Pleciinae Protomyia adusta Protomyia formicoides Protomyia fusca
Type: Bibio
Ecology:
Distribution:
• Quaternary of France (3 collections), the United Kingdom (2), United States (1: Washington)
• Pliocene of Germany (1), Japan (2)
• Miocene of Austria (3), Bosnia and Herzegovina (1), Bulgaria (1), China (7), Croatia (7), the Czech Republic (1), the Dominican Republic (2), France (3), Germany (10), Greece (2), Iceland (1), Italy (2), Japan (2), Mexico (1), Romania (1), the Russian Federation (1), Slovenia (1), Spain (1), Thailand (1), Turkey (1), United States (3: Alaska, Idaho, Washington)
• Oligocene of France (43), Germany (12), United States (5: Colorado, Montana)
• Eocene of Canada (23: British Columbia), China (1), France (7), Italy (1), New Zealand (1), Poland (1), the Russian Federation (5), Ukraine (1), the United Kingdom (3), United States (25: Colorado, Montana, Utah, Wyoming)
• Paleocene of France (2), the United Kingdom (1)
• Cretaceous of Botswana (1), Brazil (2), Canada (1: Manitoba), China (1), Jordan (1), Myanmar (4), Spain (1)
Total: 203 collections including 819 occurrences