Permotanyderidae

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: Mecoptera

Familia: † Permotanyderidae

Genera: Choristotanyderus – Permotanyderus
Name

† Permotanyderidae Riek, 1953

Type species: Permotanyderus Riek, 1953

References
Primary references

Riek, E.F. 1953. Fossil mecopteroid insects from the Upper Permian of New South Wales. Records of the Australian Museum 23(2): 55–87. Reference page.

Links

Permotanyderidae – Taxon details on Fossilworks.

The Permotanyderidaea are an extinct family of insects within the order Protodiptera.

Along with Permotipulidae (Permotipula and Permila, Willmann, 1989) and the Robinjohniidae (Robinjohnia, Scherbakov ET to., 1995), the somewhat more distantly related Permotanyderidae forms a group of mecopteroids of the Late Permian of Australia and Eurasia (250-260 Ma) that represents the older close relatives of the true flies. The first two genera had separate wings (presumably the front), while the last two have been created from complete specimens: The Robinjohniidae had four wings of about the same size, while the hind wings of the Choristotanyderus nanus (Permotanyderidae) specimens had a size of about half of the front, and the mesothorax was great. In all these genera the wing venation was low compared with other mecopteroids and close to the hypothetical original venation of the Diptera (Hennig, 1973; Willmann, 1989).[1]
References

David Grimaldi, Michael S. Engel. Evolution of the insects. Page 497.

External links

David Grimaldi, Michael S. Engel. Evolution of the insects.
V.A Blagoderov, E.D. Lukashevich, M.B. Mostovski. 2.2.1.3.4.4. Order Diptera Linné, 1758. The true flies (= Muscida Laicharting, 1781). Arthropod Laboratory Website, Paleontological Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow.