Archidiptera is a
suborder
Order () is one of the eight major hierarchical taxonomic ranks in Linnaean taxonomy. It is classified between family and class. In biological classification, the order is a taxonomic rank used in the classification of organisms and recognized ...
of
Diptera
Flies are insects of the order Diptera, the name being derived from the Greek δι- ''di-'' "two", and πτερόν ''pteron'' "wing". Insects of this order use only a single pair of wings to fly, the hindwings having evolved into advance ...
under an alternative classification based largely on
fossil
A fossil (from Classical Latin , ) is any preserved remains, impression, or trace of any once-living thing from a past geological age. Examples include bones, shells, exoskeletons, stone imprints of animals or microbes, objects preserve ...
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).
Its sole living representative, the family
Nymphomyiidae, is normally considered a member of the
Blephariceromorpha within the
Nematocera
The Nematocera (the name meaning "thread-horns") are a suborder of elongated fly, flies with thin, segmented antenna (biology), antennae and mostly aquatic larvae. This group is paraphyletic and contains all flies except for species from suborder ...
.
References
Diptera taxonomy
Insect suborders
Prehistoric Diptera
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