A new Triassic family of Diptera from Australia

LUKASHEVICH, E.D., SHCHERBAKOV D.E. 1999. A new Triassic family of Diptera from Australia. In: AMBA/ AM/PFICM98/1.99: 81-89. Tillyardiptera prima gen. et sp. nov. (Tillyardipteridae fam. nov.), nearest to ancestral Psychodomorpha, is described from the Upper Triassic of Mount Crosby, Australia. It is the largest Triassic dipteran known up to now. Systematic position of the new family and Triassic Grauvogeliidae, as well as significance of wing proportions for diag­ nostics of primitive Nematocera, are discussed.