Ironomyiidae

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Phoroidea

Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Unikonta Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Eumetazoa Cladus: Bilateria Cladus: Nephrozoa Cladus: Protostomia Cladus: Ecdysozoa Cladus: Panarthropoda Phylum: Arthropoda Cladus: Pancrustacea Cladus: Allotriocarida Subphylum: Hexapoda Classis: Insecta Cladus: Dicondylia Subclassis: Pterygota Infraclassis: Neoptera Cladus: Eumetabola Cladus: Holometabola Superordo: Panorpida Cladus: Antliophora Ordo: Diptera Subordo: Brachycera Infraordo: Muscomorpha Sectio: Aschiza Superfamilia: Phoroidea

Familia: Ironomyiidae
Subfamiliae (1 + 1†): Ironomyiinae – †Sinolestinae

Overview of genera (1 + 5†)

Ironomyia – †Cretonomyia – †Eridomyia – †Hermaeomyia – †Palaeopetia – ?†Lebambromyia

Name

Ironomyiidae McAlpine & Martin, 1966

References

• Disney, R.H.L. 1988: Unusual costal chaetotaxy in the phylogenetically interesting Ironomyiidae and Sciadoceridae (Diptera). Annales entomologici fennici, 54: 19–20. [not seen]
• McAlpine, D.K. 2008. New extant species of ironic flies (Diptera: Ironomyiidae) with notes on ironomyiid morphology and relationships. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 129: 17–38. BHL Reference page. 
• McAlpine, J.F. & Martin, J.E.H. 1966. Systematics of the Sciadoceridae and relatives with descriptions of two new genera and species from canadian amber and erection of family Ironomyiidae (Diptera: Phoroidea). The Canadian Entomologist 98(5): 527–544. DOI: 10.4039/Ent98527-5 . Reference page. 
• Mostovski, M.B. 1995: [New taxa of Ironomyiidae (Diptera, Phoromorpha) from the Cretaceous of Siberia and Mongolia]. Paleontologicheskii zhurnal, (4): 86–103. [in Russian, English translation in Paleontological journal, 30: 318–331]

Links

• Tree of Life Web Project. 2007. Ironomyiidae. Version 29 November 2007 (temporary) in The Tree of Life Web Project