Electrocyrtoma Cockerell 1917 (dance fly)

Insecta - Diptera - Hybotidae

Full reference: T. D. A. Cockerell. 1917. Fossil insects. Annals of the Entomological Society of America 10:1-22

Parent taxon: Tachydromiinae according to M. M. Solórzano-Kraemer et al. 2023

See also Carpenter 1992, Cockerell 1917 and Grimaldi and Cumming 1999

Sister taxa: Archaeodrapetiops, Archiplatypalpus, Cretoplatypalpus, Drapetiella, Drapetini, Eoplatypalpus, Mesoplatypalpus, Sepsis atra, Sepsis bicolorata, Sepsis ignobilis, Symballophthalmini, Tachydromiini, Lochmocola, Eocorynetites

Subtaxa: Electrocyrtoma burmanica

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Type: Electrocyrtoma burmanica

Ecology:

Distribution: found only at Burmese amber (Swinhoe collection, BMNH) (Cretaceous of Myanmar)

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