Ptychopteridae

Ptychoptera contaminata

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Ptychopteroidea

Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Amorphea Cladus: Obazoa Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Cladus: Filozoa Cladus: Choanozoa Regnum: Animalia Cladus: Bilateria Cladus: Nephrozoa Cladus: Protostomia Superphylum: Ecdysozoa Cladus: Panarthropoda Phylum: Arthropoda Cladus: Mandibulata 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: Nematocera Infraordo: Ptychopteromorpha Superfamilia: Ptychopteroidea

Familia: Ptychopteridae
Subfamiliae (5): Bittacomorphinae – †Eoptychopterinae – †Eoptychopterininae – †Etoptychopterinae? – †Proptychopterininae
Ptychopterinae –

Overview of genera

†Architendipes – Bittacomorpha – Bittacomorphella – †Bolboia – †Brodilka – †Crenoptychoptera – †Doptychoptera – †Eoptychoptera – †Eoptychopterina – †Etoptychoptera – †Leptychoptera – †Nedoptychoptera – †Probittacomorpha – †Proptychopterina – Ptychoptera – †Zhiganka
[Source: Lukashevich (2008)]

Name

Ptychopteridae Osten Sacken, 1862

Synonyms

• †Eoptychopteridae Handlirsch, 1906
• †Eolimnobiidae Rohdendorf, 1962

References

• Handlirsch, A. 1910. Canadian fossil Insects. 5. Insects from the Tertiary lake deposits of the southern interior of British Columbia, collected by Mr. Lawrence M. Lambe. Contributions to Canadian Palaeontology 2(3): 93–129. doi:10.4095/100486.  Reference page. 
• Rohdendorf, B.B. 1962. Отряд Diptera. Двукрылые. [Order Diptera. Flies.] Pp. 307–345. In: Rohdendorf, B.B., (ed.), Основы палеонтологии. Членистоногие. трахейные и хелицеровые. [Fundamentals of Palaeontology.] [Volume 9]. Izdatel’stvo Akad. Nauk, Moscow. Volume PDF Reference page. 
• Krzemiński, W., Kania, I. & Nel, A. 2012. Probittacomorpha brisaci n. sp. (Ptychopteridae, Bittacomorphinae) from the Late Miocene of Montagne d’Andance, Saint Bauzile, Ardèche (France). Zootaxa 3521: 80–88. Preview Reference page. 
• Nakamura, T.; Saigusa, T. 2009: Taxonomic study of the family Ptychopteridae of Japan (Diptera). Zoosymposia, 3: 273–303. Preview
• Kang, Z., Yao, G. & Yang, D. 2013. Five new species of Ptychoptera Meigen with a key to species from China (Diptera: Ptychopteridae). Zootaxa 3682(4): 541–555. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3682.4.5 Reference page. 
• Paramonov, N.M. 2013. Ptychopteridae, a family of flies (Diptera) new to the Philippine Islands with the description of a new species. Zootaxa 3682(4): 584–588. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3682.4.10 Reference page. 
• Lukashevich, E.D. 2008. [Ptychopteridae (Insecta: Diptera): History of its study and limits of the family]. Paleontologicheskii Zhurnal 2008(1): 68–77. (in Russian). PDF. [English translation: Paleontological Journal 42(1): 66–74. DOI: 10.1007/s11492-008-1011-1 . PDF.] Reference page. 
• Lukashevich, E.D. 2012. [Phylogeny of Ptychopteroidea (Insecta: Diptera)]. Paleontologicheskii Zhurnal 2012(5): 32–40. (in Russian) [English translation: Paleontological Journal 46(5): 476–484. DOI: 10.1134/s003103011205005x .]
• Catalog of fossil Diptera of the world (Version 2.0) Ptychopteridae Neal L. Evenhuis (2 April 2014)

Vernacular names

• English: Phantom Crane Flies
• suomi: Kummitussääsket
• 日本語: コシボソガガンボ科

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