The Tipulomorpha are an
infraorder
Order ( la, ordo) 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 ...
of
Nematocera
The Nematocera (the name means "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 but species from suborder Brachyce ...
, containing the
crane flies
Crane fly is a common name referring to any member of the insect family Tipulidae. Cylindrotominae, Limoniinae, and Pediciinae have been ranked as subfamilies of Tipulidae by most authors, though occasionally elevated to family rank. In the ...
, a very large group, and allied families.
One recent 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 preserved ...
s splits this group into a series of extinct superfamilies (below), and includes members of other infraorders, but this has not gained wide acceptance.
Extinct ranks
*Superfamily
Eopolyneuroidea
**Family
Eopolyneuridae - (Upper Triassic)
**Family
Musidoromimidae - (Upper Triassic)
*Superfamily
Tipulodictyoidea extinct
**Family
Tipulodictyidae - (Upper Triassic)
*Superfamily
Tanyderophryneoidea extinct
**Family
Tanyderophryneidae - (Middle Jurassic)
*Superfamily
Tipuloidea
Tipuloidea is a superfamily of flies containing the living families Cylindrotomidae, Limoniidae, Pediciidae and Tipulidae, and the extinct family Architipulidae.Petersen, M.J.; Bertone, M.A.; Wiegmann, B.M.; Courtney, G.W. 2010: Phylogenetic sy ...
**Family
Architipulidae extinct (Upper Triassic)-(Pan Jurassic)
*Superfamily
Eoptychopteroidea extinct
**Family
Eoptychopteridae - (Lower Jurassic)
External links
Tree of Life Tipulomorpha
Insect infraorders
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