Tribe Symballophthalmini Sinclair and Cumming 2006 (dance fly)
Full reference: B. J. Sinclair and J. M. Cumming. 2006. The morphology, higher-level phylogeny and classification of the Empidoidea (Diptera). Zootaxa 1180:1-172
Parent taxon: Tachydromiinae according to E. Wahlberg and K. A. Johanson 2018
See also Sinclair and Cumming 2006
Sister taxa: Archaeodrapetiops, Archiplatypalpus, Cretoplatypalpus, Drapetiella, Drapetini, Electrocyrtoma, Mesoplatypalpus, Tachydromiini, Lochmocola, Eocorynetites
Subtaxa: Symballophthalmus
Ecology:
Distribution: found only at Xilutian coal mine, Fushun amber (late 1970s collection) (Eocene of China)