Bibionomorpha

Life-forms

Superregnum: Eukaryota
Cladus: Unikonta
Cladus: Opisthokonta
Cladus: Holozoa
Regnum: Animalia
Subregnum: Eumetazoa
Cladus: Bilateria
Cladus: Nephrozoa
Cladus: Protostomia
Cladus: Ecdysozoa
Cladus: Panarthropoda
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Hexapoda
Classis: Insecta
Cladus: Dicondylia
Subclassis: Pterygota
Cladus: Metapterygota
Infraclassis: Neoptera
Cladus: Eumetabola
Cladus: Endopterygota
Superordo: Panorpida
Cladus: Antliophora
Ordo: Diptera
Subordo: Nematocera
Infraordo: Bibionomorpha
Superfamiliae (8): Anisopodoidea – Bibionoidea – Pachyneuroidea – Sciaroidea – Scatopsoidea – †Fungivoridea – †Pleciodictyidea – †Protoligoneuridea
Superfamiliae incertae sedis (Bibionomorpha)

†Cascopleciidae – †Eopleciidae – †Oligophryneidae – †Paraxymyiidae – †Protobibionidae – †Protopleciidae – †Protorhyphidae – †Protoscatopsidae

Name

Bibionomorpha Hennig, 1954
Synonyms

Bibiomorpha Hennig, 1948

References

Template:Hennig, 1954

Poinar, G., jr. 2010: Cascoplecia insolitis (Diptera: Cascopleciidae), a new family, genus, and species of flower-visiting, unicorn fly (Bibionomorpha) in Early Cretaceous Burmese amber. Cretaceous research, 31: 71–76. DOI: 10.1016/j.cretres.2009.09.007
Salmela, J. & Kaunisto, K.M. 2015. Additions to the list of Finnish Bibionomorpha (Diptera, Nematocera). Biodiversity Data Journal 3: e5228. DOI: 10.3897/BDJ.3.e5228. Reference page.

Links

Zicha, Ondřej et al. Bibionomorpha – Taxon details on Biological Library (BioLib).
Bibionomorpha – Taxon details on Fauna Europaea.

Vernacular names
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The Bibionomorpha are an infraorder of the suborder Nematocera. One of its constituent families, the Anisopodidae, is the presumed sister taxon to the entire suborder Brachycera.[1] Several of the remaining families in the infraorder (those shown without common names) are former subfamilies of the Mycetophilidae, which has been recently subdivided. The family Axymyiidae has recently been removed from the Bibionomorpha to its own infraorder Axymyiomorpha.

Most representatives of the Bibionomorpha are saprophages or fungivores as larvae with the Cecidomyiidae being predominantly gall-formers. Some sciarids are common indoor pests, developing large populations in potting soil that has become moldy from overwatering. The larvae of the Bibionidae sometimes migrate in large, snake-like masses to minimize dehydration while seeking a new feeding site.
Extinct families

The extinct bibionomorph fauna is:

Cascopleciidae Middle? Cretaceous; Myanmar
Eopleciidae extinct (Lower Jurassic)
Oligophryneidae extinct (Upper Triassic)
Paraxymyiidae extinct (Middle Jurassic)
Protobibionidae extinct (Middle Jurassic)
Protopleciidae extinct (Pan Jurassic)
Protorhyphidae extinct (Upper Triassic)
Protoscatopsidae extinct (Middle Jurassic)
Superfamily Pleciodictyidea extinct
Pleciodictyidae - (Upper Triassic)
Superfamily Protoligoneuridea extinct
Protoligoneuridae - (Upper Triassic)
Superfamily Fungivoridea
Pleciofungivoridae extinct (Upper Triassic) (Lower and Middle Jurassic)
Palaeopleciidae extinct (Upper Triassic)
Pleciomimidae extinct (Lower and Middle Jurassic)
Archizelmiridae extinct (Middle Jurassic)
Fungivoritidae extinct (Middle and Upper Jurassic)
Tipulopleciidae extinct (Middle Jurassic)
Sinemediidae extinct (Middle Jurassic)

References

King, David G. (May 1991). "The Origin of an Organ: Phylogenetic Analysis of Evolutionary Innovation in the Digestive Tract of Flies (Insecta: Diptera)". Evolution. Society for the Study of Evolution. 45 (3): 582. doi:10.2307/2409912. Retrieved 18 November 2020.