†subfamily Cretonomyiinae Li and Yeates 2018 (ironic fly)

Insecta - Diptera - Ironomyiidae

Full reference: X. K. Li and D. K. Yeates. 2018. The first Ironomyiidae from mid-Cretaceous Burmese amber provides insights into the phylogeny of Phoroidea (Diptera: Cyclorrhapha). Systematic Entomology 44:251-261

Parent taxon: Ironomyiidae according to X. K. Li and D. K. Yeates 2018

Sister taxa: Proironia, Sinolestinae

Subtaxa: Cretonomyia

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Type: Cretonomyia

Ecology:

Distribution: found only at Cedar Lake (CNC 1963 collection) (Cretaceous of Manitoba)

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