Thaumaleidae, Bezzi, 1913
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The family comprises 200 extant species in seven genera ( Pivar et al. 2020, 2021; Sinclair et al. 2022). It is represented in Chile by 16 species in two genera: Austrothaumalea Tonnoir , with a species recently described, A. fredericki Pivar ( Pivar et al. 2020) and Niphta Theischinger with nine species recently described from southern Chile ( Pivar et al. 2021).
4. Suborder Perissommatomorpha
There is quite a controversy about the position of the Perissommatidae . It has been placed in a small clade with Axymyiidae and Pachyneuridae ( Hennig 1973) , in the Psychodomorpha ( Wood & Borkent 1989), in a “ Psychodomorpha grade” connected to the Brachycera ( Oosterbroek & Courtney 1995) , left as “ incertae sedis ” in Bertone et al. (2008), or placed as sister to all Neodiptera ( Wiegmann et al. 2011). We use here Pape et al. ’s (2011) classification, with this family in a separate suborder (together to the fossil family Boholdoyidae Kovalev ).
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