 Permotanyderidae

The Permotanyderidaea are an extinct family of insects within the order Protodiptera.Along with Permotipulidae ("Permotipula" and "Permila", Willmann, 1989) and the Robinjohniidae (Robinjohnia, Scherbakov ET to., 1995), the somewhat more distantly related Permotanyderidae forms a group of mecopteroids of the Late Permian of Australia and Eurasia (250-260 Ma) that represents the older close relatives of the true flies.