Archidiptera

Archidiptera
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Clade:	Pancrustacea
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Diptera
Suborder:	Archidiptera
Infraorder
	; Infraorder Nymphomyiomorpha ; Nymphomyiidae ; Infraorder Dictyodipteromorpha extinct ; Superfamily Dictyodipteridea ; Dictyodipteridae - (Upper Triassic) ; Superfamily Hyperpolyneuridea ; Hyperpolyneuridae - (Upper Triassic) ; Superfamily Dyspolyneuridea ; Dyspolyneuridae - (Upper Triassic) ; Infraorder Diplopolyneuromorpha extinct ; Diplopolyneuridae - (Upper Triassic)

Archidiptera is a suborder of Diptera under an alternative classification based largely on fossil taxa; it has not gained wide acceptance among non-paleontological dipterists. This is a sister group of Eudiptera (another suborder also based largely on fossil taxa).¹

Its sole living representative, the family Nymphomyiidae, is normally considered a member of the Blephariceromorpha within the Nematocera.

References

Ide, F. P. (May 1965). "A Fly of the Archaic Family Nymphomyiidae (Diptera) from North America". The Canadian Entomologist. 97 (5): 496–507. doi:10.4039/Ent97496-5. ISSN 1918-3240. S2CID 84898033.

[1] Ide, F. P. (May 1965). "A Fly of the Archaic Family Nymphomyiidae (Diptera) from North America". The Canadian Entomologist. 97 (5): 496–507. doi:10.4039/Ent97496-5. ISSN 1918-3240. S2CID 84898033.

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