Chioneinae

The Chioneinae are a subfamily of limoniid crane flies.

Chioneinae
Erioptera flavata
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Arthropoda
Class:
Insecta
Order:
Diptera
Family:
Limoniidae
Subfamily:
Chioneinae
Tribes

Cladurini
Eriopterini
Gonomyiini
Molophilini

Gnophomyia tristissima

This subfamily was known as Eriopterinae until 1992.

Systematics
This list is adapted from the Catalogue of the Craneflies of the World (January 2007). However, tribe affiliation is taken from Fauna Europaea; thus genera that include no European species are given below. then refined from Savchenko, Oosterbroek & Stary[1]

Dicranoptycha Osten Sacken, 1860 and Lipsothrix Loew, 1873 were moved to subfamily Limoniinae.

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References
  1. Savchenko, E.N.; Oosterbroek, P.; Stary, J. (1992). Soos, A.; Papp, L.; Oosterbroek, P. (eds.). Family Limoniidae in Catalogue of Palaearctic Diptera (Print). 1. Budapest: Hungarian Hatural History Museum. pp. 179–182. ISBN 963-7093-10-9.
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