Chamaemyiidae is a widespread family comprised of about 100 species of acalypterate
flies whose free-living and predaceous larvae are often used as biological
control agents of aphids, coccids, and scale insects. Adults of living forms
are known to feed on sap.
Only one fossil species in the extinct genus Procremifania Hennig
has been described from Eocene/Oligocene Baltic amber. In addition to this
species, undetermined material of the family has also been recorded from
the Oligocene/ Miocene amber of the Dominican Republic (Poinar, 1992).
PROCREMIFANIA Hennig, 1965: 116. Type species: Procremifania
electrica Hennig, 1965, by monotypy.
electrica Hennig, 1965: 116. PA: Baltic Region (Eocene/Oligocene)
[A].