Alternative spelling: Sciaraedes
Synonym: Lycoriidae
Full reference: G. J. Billberg. 1820. Enumeratio Insectorum in Museo Gust. Joh. Billberg 1-138
Parent taxon: Sciaroidea according to D. K. Yeates et al. 2007
See also Carpenter 1992, Cook and Ross 1996, Frey 1948 and Zhang 1989
Sister taxa: Archizelmiridae, Baisepesthoneura, Bolitophila pulveris, Bolitophilidae, Burmatricha, Cecidomyiidae, Diadocidiidae, Ditomyiidae, Keroplatidae, Mycetophilidae, Paraxymyiidae, Sciara florissantensis, Sciara gurnetensis, Sciara protoberidis, Sinoscatopse, Thereotricha
Subtaxa: Archicratyna Bradysiopsis Chaetosciarinae Cratyninae Eosciarites Lycoriella Lycoriinae Megalosphyinae Protolycoriella Protosciara Pseudosciara Sciara lacoei Sciara morosa Sciarinae Succinosciara
Type: Sciara
Ecology:
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Argentina (1 collection), Japan (1), Tanzania (2)
• Pliocene of Germany (1), Japan (1)
• Miocene of Austria (1), China (2), Croatia (2), the Czech Republic (1), the Dominican Republic (5), Germany (2), Japan (1), Mexico (6), Thailand (1), United States (1: Idaho)
• Oligocene of France (8), Germany (3)
• Eocene of Canada (1: British Columbia), China (2), France (2), Germany (3), Poland (1), the Russian Federation (5), the United Kingdom (1), United States (5: Colorado, Montana, Wyoming)
• Cretaceous of Jordan (1), Myanmar (1), the United Kingdom (1)
Total: 62 collections including 263 occurrences