Insecta - Diptera - Mythicomyiidae
Full reference: W. Hennig. 1969. Kritische Betrachtungen über die phylogenetische Bedeutung von Bernsteinfossilien: die Gattungen Proplatypygus (Diptera, Bombyliidae) und Palaeopsylla (Siphonaptera). Memorie della Società Entomologica Italiana 48:57-67
Parent taxon: Psiloderoidinae according to N. L. Evenhuis 2002
See also Carpenter 1992, Evenhuis 2002, Hennig 1969 and Nel and De Ploeg 2004
Sister taxa: Borissovia, Carmenelectra, Eoacridophagus, Palaeoplatypygus, Procyrtosia
Subtaxa: Proplatypygus matilei Proplatypygus succineus
Type: Proplatypygus succineus
Ecology:
Distribution:
• Eocene of Denmark (1 collection), France (1), the Russian Federation (1)
Total: 3 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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