Archisargidae

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Archisargidae
Temporal range: Callovian–Aptian
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Archirhagio mostovskii (top) and A. zhangi (bottom)
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Diptera
Superfamily: Archisargoidea
Family: Archisargidae
Rohdendorf 1962
Genera

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Male Mesosolva sp.

Archisargidae is an extinct family of brachyceran flies known from the Jurassic and Cretaceous periods. It is part of the extinct superfamily Archisargoidea. Most members of the family are known from the Callovian-Oxfordian Daohugou biota of Inner Mongolia, China, and the equivalently aged Karabastau Formation of Kazakhstan. The family has been found to be paraphyletic with respect to Eremochaetidae in a cladistic analysis. [1]

Taxonomy

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