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ORDER DIPTERA. THE TRUE FLIES |
 | | Descriptions of all such phenomena produced by old authors were based on misinterpretations due to poorly preserved material. |
| | In the light of this, the suborder Archidiptera erected by Rohdendorf (1961) for several taxa should be abolished, because the families included belong in fact to Tipulomorpha and Bibionomorpha. |
| | Comparative wing morphology and palaeontology indicate that modern Tipulomorpha belong to the earliest branch of Diptera, and, moreover, that the ancestral dipterans could be assigned to the same infraorder (considered paraphyletic). |
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