@article {56517,
	title = {Lygistorrhinidae (Diptera: Bibionomorpha: Sciaroidea) in early Eocene Cambay amber},
	journal = {PeerJ},
	volume = {5},
	year = {2017},
	month = {Jan-01-2017},
	pages = {e3313},
	abstract = {<p>One new genus and three new species of Lygistorrhinidae in early Eocene Cambay amber from India are described, which significantly increases our knowledge about this group in the Eocene. Lygistorrhina indica n. sp. is the oldest fossil known from this extant genus. Indorrhina sahnii n. gen. et sp. shows morphological similarities to each of the two extant genera Lygistorrhina and Asiorrhina. Palaeognoriste orientale is the third species known from a group that has only been recorded from Eocene Baltic amber before. The latter finding reveals faunal links between Cambay amber and the probably slightly younger Baltic amber, adding further evidence that faunal exchange between Europe/Asia and India took place before the formation of Cambay amber.</p>
},
	doi = {10.7717/peerj.3313},
	url = {https://peerj.com/articles/3313},
	author = {Stebner, Frauke and Singh, Hukam and Rust, Jes and Grimaldi, David A.}
}
@article {45413,
	title = {Episodic radiations in the fly tree of life},
	journal = {Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America},
	year = {2011},
	doi = {10.1073/pnas.1012675108},
	author = {Brian M. Wiegmann and Michelle D. Trautwein and Isaac S. Winkler and Norman B. Barr and Jung-Wook Kim and Christine Lambkin and Matthew A. Bertone and Brian K. Cassel and Keith M. Bayless and Alysha M. Heimberg and Benjamin M. Wheeler and Kevin J. Peterson and Pape, Thomas and Sinclair, Bradley J. and Jeffrey H. Skevington and Vladimir A. Blagoderov and Jason Caravas and Sujatha Narayanan Kutty and Urs Schmidt-Ott and Gail E. Kampmeier and Thompson, F. Christian and Grimaldi, David A. and Andrew T. Beckenbach and Gregory W. Courtney and Markus Friedrich and Rudolf Meier and Yeates, David K.}
}
@article {23362,
	title = {How Time Flies for Flies: Diverse Diptera from the Triassic of Virginia and Early Radiation of the Order},
	journal = {American Museum Novitates},
	volume = {3572},
	year = {2007},
	month = {16/05/2007},
	pages = {1-40},
	abstract = {The most diverse and best-preserved early fauna of flies (order Diptera) is described from the Late Carnian (Late Triassic, ca. 220 Ma) of Virginia, USA. Complete flies are preserved as aluminosilicate films on very fine-grained shales from the Cow Branch Formation, which is part of the Newark Supergroup of Early Mesozoic rift basins from eastern North America. The dipteran fauna consists of eight families (one new), 11 genera (five new), and 16 species (11 new), and includes the following taxa (Blagoderov and Grimaldi are the authors of all new names): Architipula youngi Krzemi{\'n}ski, Metarchilimonia krzeminskorum n.gen., n.sp., and M. solita n.sp. (Limoniidae); Triassopsychoda olseni n.gen., n.sp. (Psychodidae); Culicomorpha indet.; Yalea argentata (Krzemi{\'n}ski), Y. rectimedia n.sp., Alinka cara Krzemi{\'n}ski (Procramptonomyiidae); Veriplecia rugosa n.sp., Virginiptera certa n.gen., n.sp., V. similis n.sp., V. lativentra n.sp. (Paraxymyiidae); Brachyrhyphus distortus n.gen. n.sp. (Protorhyphidae); ?Crosaphis virginiensis n.sp. (Crosaphididae); and Prosechamyia trimedia n.gen., n.sp., P. dimedia n.sp. (Prosechamyiidae, new family). Particularly significant is a culicomorphan with a long proboscis, which is the earliest fossil record of a structure specialized apparently for blood feeding. Also, Prosechamyia appears to be a stem group to the very diverse infraorder Brachycera, the earliest definitive members of which appear in the Early Jurassic. Phylogenetic relationships of major clades of living and extinct nematocerous Diptera are analyzed, indicating that infraordinal-level diversification was complete by the Late Triassic. Flies did not reach modern levels of ecological abundance until the mid-Jurassic, apparently due to diversification within most infraorders by that time.},
	url = {http://digitallibrary.amnh.org/dspace/handle/2246/5854},
	author = {Vladimir A. Blagoderov and Grimaldi, David A. and Fraser, Nicholas C.}
}
