Eudiptera

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.

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

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


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