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Eudiptera

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Eudiptera
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Diptera
Suborder: Eudiptera
Infraorder

Deuterophlebiomorpha
Tipulomorpha
Culicomorpha
Bibionomorpha
Blephariceromorpha
Axymyiomorpha
Ptychopteromorpha

Eudiptera is a suborder of Diptera under an alternative subordinal classification based largely on fossil taxa; it has not gained wide acceptance among non-paleontological dipterists and is presented here for comparative purposes only. The suborder is the sister group of Archidiptera (another group also largely based on fossil taxa).

All of the taxa included in Eudiptera are also members of the Nematocera, and the latter is the preferred grouping; both are paraphyletic.[1]

References

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  1. ^ Ide FP. A Fly of the Archaic Family Nymphomyiidae (Diptera) from North America. The Canadian Entomologist. 1965;97(5):496-507. doi:10.4039/Ent97496-5