Apystomyiidae

Apystomyiidae
Temporal range: Oxfordian - Recent
Hilarimorphites burmanica from Burmese amber
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Diptera
(unranked): Eremoneura
Family: Apystomyiidae
Nagatomi & Liu, 1994
Genera

Apystomyiidae is a small family of flies containing the living genus Apystomyia and the extinct genera Apystomimus and Hilarimorphites. The single living Apystomyiidae species, Apystomyia elinguis, is native to California. Species of Hilarimorphites have been described from Mid to late Cretaceous Burmese and New Jersey ambers, while the single Apystomimus species is from the Late Jurassic of Kazakhstan.

  1. ^ Melander, A.L. (1950). "Taxonomic notes on some smaller Bombyliidae (Diptera) [concl.]". The Pan-Pacific Entomologist. 26: 145–156. Retrieved 3 September 2022.