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Archisargidae ✝

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Source Data

Source	ID	Link
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)	4796060	https://www.gbif.org/species/4796060
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)	138710	https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=138710

Rank

family

Taxonomy (GBIF,PBDB)

Life : Animalia : Arthropoda : Insecta : Diptera : Archisargidae

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
superfamily	Archisargoidea	Rohdendorf 1962
family	Archisargidae	Rohdendorf 1962

Scientific Name

Archisargidae

Opinions (PBDB)

Name	Rank	Opinion	Evidence	Author
Archisargidae	family	belongs to Brachycera	stated without evidence	Carpenter, 1992
Archisargidae	family	belongs to Archisargoidea	stated with evidence	Mostovski, 1996
Archisargidae	family	belongs to Archisargoidea	stated without evidence	Zhang, 2010
Archisargidae	family	belongs to Archisargoidea	stated with evidence	Zhang, 2012

Status (PBDB)

extinct

Taxon Size (PBDB)

First Recorded Appearance

166 - 157 Ma
Jurassic

Last Recorded Appearance

125 - 122 Ma
Early/Lower Cretaceous

Environment

terrestrial (based on Insecta)

Motility

actively mobile (based on Arthropoda)

Taphonomy

chitin (based on Insecta)

Primary Reference (PBDB)

B. B. Rohdendorf. 1962. Order Diptera. Osnovy Paleontologii. Tom 9: Chlenistonogie, Trakheinye i Khelitserovye

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Fossil Distribution

Subtaxa

Name	Status	Fossil Occurrences	Oldest	Youngest
Archisarginae ✝ subfamily	listed (PBDB)	59	166 Ma Middle Jurassic	125 Ma Early/Lower Cretaceous
Uranorhagioninae ✝ subfamily	listed (PBDB)	8	166 Ma Middle Jurassic	166 Ma Middle Jurassic
Archirhagio ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	9	166 Ma Middle Jurassic	166 Ma Middle Jurassic
Archisargus ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	6	166 Ma Middle Jurassic	166 Ma Middle Jurassic
Calosargus ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	11	166 Ma Middle Jurassic	152 Ma Late Jurassic
Daohugosargus ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	1	166 Ma Middle Jurassic	166 Ma Middle Jurassic
Flagellisargus ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	3	166 Ma Middle Jurassic	166 Ma Middle Jurassic
Novisargus ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	1	166 Ma Middle Jurassic	166 Ma Middle Jurassic
Origoasilus ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	1	125 Ma Early/Lower Cretaceous	125 Ma Early/Lower Cretaceous
Ovisargus ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	4	166 Ma Middle Jurassic	125 Ma Early/Lower Cretaceous
Parvisargus ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	2	166 Ma Middle Jurassic	166 Ma Middle Jurassic
Sharasargus ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	5	166 Ma Middle Jurassic	125 Ma Early/Lower Cretaceous
Sinallomyia ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	1	125 Ma Early/Lower Cretaceous	125 Ma Early/Lower Cretaceous

Obsolete Names

Name	Source	Taxon Rank	Taxonomy
Origoasilidae	GBIF	family	Animalia : Arthropoda : Insecta : Diptera : Origoasilidae

Synonymy List

Year	Name and Author
1962	Archisargidae Rohdendorf p. 334
1992	Archisargidae Carpenter
1996	Archisargidae Mostovski p. 120
2010	Archisargidae Zhang p. 310
2011	Origoasilidae Zhang et al. p. 995
2012	Archisargidae Zhang p. 63
2014	Archisargidae Zhang p. 859
2016	Archisargidae Grimaldi and Barden p. 25
2017	Archisargidae Wang et al. p. 231

References

Rohdendorf B. B. (1962) Order Diptera, Osnovy Paleontologii. Tom 9: Chlenistonogie, Trakheinye i Khelitserovye, 307-344

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

Mostovski M. B. (1996) To the knowledge of Archisargoidea (Diptera, Brachycera). Families Eremochaetidae and Archisargidae, Russian Entomological Journal 5, 117-124

Zhang J. F. (2010) Records of bizarre Jurassic Brachycerans in the Daohugou biota, China (Diptera, Brachycera, Archisargidae and Rhagionemestriidae), Palaeontology 53 2, 307-317

Zhang K. Y., Yang D., et al (2011) A new brachyceran family Origoasilidae Fam. Nov. from the late Mesozoic of China (Insecta: Diptera), Acta Geologica Sinica 85 5, 994-997

Zhang J. F. (2012) Orientisargidae fam. n, a new Jurassic family of Archisargoidea (Diptera, Brachycera), with review of Archisargidae from China, ZooKeys 238, 57-76

Zhang J. F. (2014) Taxonomy, in Archisargoid flies (Diptera, Brachycera, Archisargidae and Kovalevisargidae) from the Jurassic Daohugou biota of China, and the related biostratigraphical correlation and geological age, Journal of Systematic Palaeontology 13, 857-881

Grimaldi D. A., Barden P. (2016) The Mesozoic family Eremochaetidae (Diptera: Brachycera) in Burmese amber and relationships of Archisargoidea: Brachycera in Cretaceous Amber, Part VIII, American Museum Novitates 3865, 1-29

Wang F. Y., Shih C. K., et al (2017) Quantitative assessments and taxonomic revision of the genus Archirhagio with a new species from Daohugou, China (Diptera: Archisargidae), Systematic Entomology 42, 230-239

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

CoL2006/BDWD - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

Pape, T.; Blagoderov, B.; Mostovski, M. B. (2011). Order Diptera Linnaeus, 1758. In Zhang, Z.-Q. (Ed.) Animal biodiversity: An outline of higher-level classification and survey of taxonomic richness. Zootaxa. 3148: 222-229. - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

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