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Nemestrinidae

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Description

Nemestrinidae, or tangle-veined flies is a family of flies in the superfamily Nemestrinoidea, closely related to Acroceridae. The family is small but distributed worldwide, with about 300 species in 34 genera. Larvae are endoparasitoids of either grasshoppers (Trichopsideinae) or scarab beetles (Hirmoneurinae). Some are considered important in the control of grasshopper populations. Adults are often observed on flowers.

From Wikipedia article at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nemestrinidae, which is released under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share-Alike License 3.0.

Source Data

Source	ID	Link
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)	5569	https://www.gbif.org/species/5569
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)	138873	https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=138873

Rank

family

Taxonomy (GBIF,PBDB)

Life : Animalia : Arthropoda : Insecta : Diptera : Nemestrinidae

Taxonomic Status (GBIF)

accepted

Classification
(PBDB,GBIF)

Rank	Name	Author
-	Eukaryota
-	Opisthokonta	Cavalier-Smith 1987
kingdom	Animalia
-	Bilateria
-	Eubilateria	Ax 1987
-	Protostomia	Grobben 1908
-	Ecdysozoa
-	Panarthropoda
phylum	Arthropoda	Latreille 1829
subphylum	Mandibulata
-	Pancrustacea
superclass	Hexapoda	Latreille 1825
-	Cercofilata	Kukalová-Peck 1987
class	Insecta	Linnaeus 1758
-	Dicondylia
-	Paranotalia	Sroka et al. 2014
subclass	Pterygota	Brauer 1885
-	Neopterygota	Crampton 1924
infraclass	Neoptera	Martynov 1923
-	Holometabola
-	Aparaglossata
-	Mecopterida
superorder	Antliophora
order	Diptera	Linnaeus 1758
-	Neodiptera	Michelsen 1994
suborder	Brachycera	Zetterstedt 1842
-	Homeodactyla
superfamily	Nemestrinoidea	Macquart 1834
family	Nemestrinidae	Macquart 1834

Common Name

tangle-veined fly

Scientific Name

Nemestrinidae

Opinions (PBDB)

Name	Rank	Opinion	Evidence	Author
Nemestrinidae	family	belongs to Brachycera	stated without evidence	Carpenter, 1992
Nemestrinidae	family	belongs to Nemestrinoidea	stated with evidence	Mostovski and Martínez-Delclòs, 2000

Status (PBDB)

extant

Taxon Size (PBDB)

Extant Size (PBDB)

9 (18%)

First Recorded Appearance

166 - 157 Ma
Jurassic

Environment

terrestrial (based on Insecta)

Motility

actively mobile (based on Arthropoda)

Taphonomy

chitin (based on Insecta)

Primary Reference (PBDB)

F. M. Carpenter. 1992. Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology Part R, Arthropoda 4: Superclass Hexapoda 3/4:1-655

Common Name(s)

Tangle-veined Flies, Tangle-veined Fly

Wikipedia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nemestrinidae

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Fossil Distribution

Subtaxa

Name	Status	Common Name(s)	Fossil Occurrences	Oldest	Youngest
Archinemestriinae ✝ subfamily	listed (PBDB)		19	166 Ma Middle Jurassic	99.6 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous
Nemestrininae subfamily	listed (PBDB)		3	130 Ma Early/Lower Cretaceous	0 Ma Extant
Aenigmestrinus ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		2	166 Ma Middle Jurassic	166 Ma Middle Jurassic
Ahirmoneura ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	166 Ma Middle Jurassic	166 Ma Middle Jurassic
Archinemestrius ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		6	166 Ma Middle Jurassic	166 Ma Middle Jurassic
Atriadops genus	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Ceyloniola genus	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Cyclopsidea genus	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Eohirmoneura genus	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Fallenia genus	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Florinemestrius ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	125 Ma Early/Lower Cretaceous	125 Ma Early/Lower Cretaceous
Hirmoneura genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		12	166 Ma Middle Jurassic	0 Ma Extant
Hirmoneurinae genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		13	166 Ma Middle Jurassic	0 Ma Extant
Hyrmophlaeba genus	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Moegistorhynchus genus	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Nemestrina genus	listed (PBDB)				0 Ma Extant
Nemestrinus genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	125 Ma Early/Lower Cretaceous	0 Ma Extant
Neorhynchocephalus genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		7	37.2 Ma Eocene	0 Ma Extant
Nycterimorpha genus	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Nycterimyia genus	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Palembolus genus	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Prohirmoneura ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	151 Ma Late Jurassic	151 Ma Late Jurassic
Prosoeca genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		2	130 Ma Early/Lower Cretaceous	0 Ma Extant
Protonemestrius ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		10	166 Ma Middle Jurassic	125 Ma Early/Lower Cretaceous
Rhagionemestrius ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	166 Ma Middle Jurassic	166 Ma Middle Jurassic
Sinonemestrius ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		2	136 Ma Early/Lower Cretaceous	125 Ma Early/Lower Cretaceous
Stenobasipteron genus	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Stenopteromyia genus	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Trichophthalma genus	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Trichopsidea genus	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Hyrmaphloeba surcana species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Rhynchocephala subnitens species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB

Synonymy List

Year	Name and Author
1834	Nemestrinidae Macquart p. 370
1992	Nemestrinidae Carpenter
2000	Nemestrinidae Mostovski and Martínez-Delclòs p. 142
2016	Nemestrinidae Grimaldi p. 49
2018	Nemestrinidae Shin et al.

References

Carpenter F. M. (1992) , Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology Part R, Arthropoda 4: Superclass Hexapoda 3/4, 1-655

Mostovski M. B., Martínez-Delclòs X. (2000) New Nemestrinoidea (Diptera: Brachycera) from the Upper Jurassic - Lower Cretaceous of Eurasia, taxonomy, and palaeobiology, Entomological Problems 31 2, 137-148

Grimaldi D. A. (2016) Diverse orthorrhaphan flies (Insecta: Diptera: Brachycera) in amber from the Cretaceous of Myanmar: Brachycera in Cretaceous amber, part VII, Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 408, 1-131

Shin S., Bayless K. M., et al (2018) Taxon sampling to address an ancient rapid radiation: a supermatrix phylogeny of early brachyceran flies (Diptera), Systematic Entomology doi:10.1111/syen.12275

Benton, M.J. (ed). (1993). The Fossil Record 2. Chapman & Hall, London, 845 pp. - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

Parker, S.P. (ed). (1982). Synopsis and Classification of Living Organisms. McGraw-Hill, New York. 2 volumes. - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

Wood, D. M.,Teskey, H. J.,Peterson, B. V.,McAlpine, J. F.,Vockeroth, J. R.,Shewell, G. E. (1981) Chapter 44. Nemestrinidae - via The Diptera Site

Hardy, G. H. (1924) Australian Nemestrinidae (Diptera) - via The Diptera Site

Data courtesy of: PBDB: The Paleobiology Database, Creative Commons CC-BY licenced. , GBIF: the Global Biodiversity Information Facility, various licences, iDigBio, various licences, and EOL: The Encyclopedia of Life (Open Data Public Domain). Because fossils are made of minerals too!

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