†Alavamanota hispanica Blagoderov and Arillo 2002 (fungus gnat)
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Insecta - Diptera - Mycetophilidae
Full reference: V. A. Blagoderov and A. Arillo. 2002. New Sciaroidea (Insecta: Diptera) in Lower Cretaceous amber from Spain. Studia Dipterologica 9:31-40
Belongs to Alavamanota according to S. S. Oliveira and D. D. S. Amorim 2021
See also Blagoderov and Arillo 2002
Sister taxon: Alavamanota burmitina
Type specimen: MCNA-8819, an exoskeleton. Its type locality is Peñacerrada outcrop I, which is in an Albian terrestrial amber in the Escucha Formation of Spain.
Ecology:
Distribution: found only at Peñacerrada outcrop I
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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