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Pediciidae

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Description

The Pediciidae or hairy-eyed craneflies are a family of flies closely related to true crane flies, with about 500 species worldwide.

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

Source Data

Source	ID	Link
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)	3315	https://www.gbif.org/species/3315
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)	220488	https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=220488

Rank

family

Taxonomy (GBIF,PBDB)

Life : Animalia : Arthropoda : Insecta : Diptera : Pediciidae

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
suborder	Nematocera	Latreille 1825
infraorder	Tipulomorpha
superfamily	Tipuloidea	Latreille 1802
family	Pediciidae

Common Name

hairy-eyed cranefly

Scientific Name

Pediciidae

Opinions (PBDB)

Name	Rank	Opinion	Evidence	Author
Pediciidae	family	belongs to Tipuloidea	stated with evidence	Podenas, 2001

Status (PBDB)

extant

Taxon Size (PBDB)

Extant Size (PBDB)

2 (8.3%)

First Recorded Appearance

201 - 191 Ma
Early Jurassic

Environment

terrestrial (based on Insecta)

Motility

actively mobile (based on Arthropoda)

Taphonomy

chitin (based on Insecta)

Primary Reference (PBDB)

S. Podenas. 2001. New species of Tricyphona crane flies (Diptera: Pediciidae) from Baltic amber (Eocene). Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 151:31-39

Common Name(s)

Hairy-eyed Cranefly, Hårögonharkrankar

Wikipedia

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

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Fossil Distribution

Subtaxa

Name	Status	Common Name(s)	Fossil Occurrences	Oldest	Youngest
Amalopis genus	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Archilimonia ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		2	247 Ma Early/Lower Triassic	247 Ma Early/Lower Triassic
Ceuthoneura ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	125 Ma Early/Lower Cretaceous	125 Ma Early/Lower Cretaceous
Dicranota genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	37.2 Ma Eocene	0 Ma Extant
Diplopolyneura ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	201 Ma Early Jurassic	201 Ma Early Jurassic
Fragisternella ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	38.0 Ma Eocene	38.0 Ma Eocene
Gracilitipula ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	125 Ma Early/Lower Cretaceous	125 Ma Early/Lower Cretaceous
Heterangaeus genus	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Malaisemyia genus	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Nasiternella genus	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Nipponomyia genus	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Ornithodes genus	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Pedicia genus	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Praearchitipula ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		6	170 Ma Middle Jurassic	166 Ma Middle Jurassic
Savchenkoiana genus	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Tricyphona genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		7	38.0 Ma Eocene	0 Ma Extant
Ula genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		4	38.0 Ma Eocene	0 Ma Extant
Zhangobia ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	125 Ma Early/Lower Cretaceous	125 Ma Early/Lower Cretaceous

Obsolete Names

Name	Source	Taxon Rank	Taxonomy
Archilimoniidae	GBIF	family	Animalia : Arthropoda : Insecta : Diptera : Archilimoniidae
Gracilitipulidae	GBIF	family	Animalia : Arthropoda : Insecta : Diptera : Gracilitipulidae
Zhangobiidae	GBIF	family	Animalia : Arthropoda : Insecta : Diptera : Zhangobiidae
Palaeolimnobiidae	GBIF	family	Animalia : Arthropoda : Insecta : Diptera : Palaeolimnobiidae
Diplopolyneuridae	GBIF	family	Animalia : Arthropoda : Insecta : Diptera : Diplopolyneuridae

Synonymy List

Year	Name and Author
1961	Diplopolyneuridae Rohdendorf p. 98
1986	Palaeolimnobiidae Zhang et al. p. 16
1990	Gracilitipulidae Hong and Wang p. 121
1992	Diplopolyneuridae Carpenter
1994	Diplopolyneuridae Evenhuis
1994	Gracilitipulidae Evenhuis
1994	Zhangobiidae Evenhuis
2001	Pediciidae Podenas p. 31
2007	Pediciidae Yeates et al.

References

Podenas S. (2001) New species of Tricyphona crane flies (Diptera: Pediciidae) from Baltic amber (Eocene), Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 151, 31-39

Rohdendorf B. B. (1961) Drevneyshie infraotryady dvukrylykh iz Triasa sredney Azii, Paleontologicheskii Zhurnal 1961 2, 90-100

Zhang J. F., Zhang S., et al (1986) Fossil insects (Diptera, Nematocera) of Laiyang basin in Shandong Province, Geology of Shandong 2, 14-39

Hong Y. C., Wang W. L. (1990) Fossil insects from the Laiyang Basin, Shandong Province, Stratigraphy and Palaeontology of Laiyang Basin, Shandong Province, 44-189

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

Evenhuis N. L. (1994) , Catalogue of the Fossil Flies of the World (Insecta: Diptera), 1-600

Yeates D. K., Wiegmann B. M., et al (2007) Phylogeny and systematics of Diptera: two decades of progress and prospects, Zootaxa 1668, 565-590

Beuk, P.L.Th. (ed.) (2002) - via Taxa Watermanagement the Netherlands (TWN)

Gärdenfors, Ulf, Hall, Ragnar, Hallingbäck, Tomas, Hansson, Hans G. & Hedström, Lars (2003) Djur, svampar och växter i Sverige 2003. Förteckning över antal arter per familj. ArtDatabanken Rapporterar 5, ArtDatabanken, Uppsala. (reviderad excelfil med svenska djurfamiljer). - via Dyntaxa. Svensk taxonomisk databas

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

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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