Archisargidae

Archisargidae
Temporal range: Callovian–Aptian
Archirhagio mostovskii (top) and A. zhangi (bottom)
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Diptera
Superfamily: Archisargoidea
Family: Archisargidae
Rohdendorf 1962
Genera

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Male Mesosolva sp.

Archisargidae is an extinct family of brachyceran flies known from the Jurassic and Cretaceous periods. It is part of the extinct superfamily Archisargoidea. Most members of the family are known from the Callovian-Oxfordian Daohugou biota of Inner Mongolia, China, and the equivalently aged Karabastau Formation of Kazakhstan. The family has been found to be paraphyletic with respect to Eremochaetidae in a cladistic analysis.[1]

  1. ^ Grimaldi, David A.; Barden, Phillip (2016-09-29). "The Mesozoic Family Eremochaetidae (Diptera: Brachycera) in Burmese Amber and Relationships of Archisargoidea: Brachycera in Cretaceous Amber, Part VIII". American Museum Novitates (3865): 1–29. doi:10.1206/3865.1. ISSN 0003-0082. S2CID 89602433.