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: Bibionidae according to J. Skartveit et al. 2025
See also Nel et al. 2019, Skartveit 2009, Skartveit and Ansorge 2020, Skartveit and Wedmann 2021 and Theobald 1937
Sister taxa: Bibio elongatus, Bibio incrassatus, Bibio linearis, Bibio robustus, Burmahesperininae, Cretobibioninae, Hesperininae, Pleciinae, Protomyia adusta, Protomyia formicoides, Protomyia fusca
Subtaxa: Bibionini Dilophini Dilophus deletus Protodilophus
Type: Bibio
Ecology:
Distribution:
• Quaternary of the United Kingdom (2 collections)
• Pliocene of Germany (6), Japan (2)
• Turolian of France (2)
• Miocene of Austria (1), Bosnia and Herzegovina (1), China (5), Croatia (6), Czechia (1), the Dominican Republic (1), France (1), Germany (8), Iceland (1), Italy (2), Japan (2), Romania (1), Slovenia (1), Spain (1), Türkiye (1), United States (3: Alaska, Idaho, Washington)
• Oligocene of China (1), France (19), Germany (10), United States (1: Montana)
• Eocene of France (5), Italy (1), New Zealand (1), Poland (1), the Russian Federation (4), the United Kingdom (2), United States (11: Colorado, Montana)
• Paleocene of France (2)
• Cretaceous of Botswana (1), Myanmar (1)
Total: 108 collections including 290 occurrences