Full reference: J. Fleming. 1821. Insecta. Supplement to the Fourth, Fifth and Sixth Editions of the Encyclopaedia Britannica 5:41-56
Parent taxon: Bibionomorpha according to G. Poinar 2010
See also Hong and Wang 1985 and Yeates et al. 2007
Sister taxa: Anisopodoidea, Boholdoyidae, Heterorhyphidae, Mycetobioidea, Pachyneuroidea, Paradictyoptera, Perissommatoidea, Sciaroidea
Subtaxa: Bibionidae Prohousea
Type: Bibio
Ecology:
Distribution:
• Quaternary of France (3 collections), the United Kingdom (2), United States (1: Washington)
• Pliocene of Germany (6), Japan (2)
• Turolian of France (2)
• Miocene of Austria (2), Bosnia and Herzegovina (1), Bulgaria (1), China (7), Croatia (7), Czechia (1), the Dominican Republic (2), France (1), Germany (10), Greece (2), Iceland (1), Italy (2), Japan (2), Mexico (1), Romania (1), the Russian Federation (1), Slovenia (1), Spain (1), Thailand (1), Türkiye (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 (6), 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 (2), Jordan (1), Myanmar (4), Spain (1), the United Kingdom (1)
Total: 210 collections including 833 occurrences