Insecta - Diptera - Dolichopodidae
Full reference: W. Hennig. 1971. Insektenfossilien aus der unteren Kreide III. Empidiformia ("Microphorinae") aus der unteren Kreide und aus dem Baltischen Bernstein; ein Vertreter der Cyclorrhapha aus der unteren Kreide. Stuttgarter Beiträge zur Naturkunde 232:1-28
Parent taxon: Microphorinae according to H. Zhang and Y. Wang 2025
See also Badano et al. 2023, Carpenter 1992, Grimaldi and Cumming 1999, Hennig 1971, Jouault et al. 2020, Perrichot and Engel 2014, Shamshev and Perkovsky 2022 and Tkoč et al. 2016
Sister taxa: Curvus, Meghyperiella, Microphor, Microphorini, Schistostoma
Subtaxa: Microphorites complanipedis Microphorites curtipedis Microphorites deploegi Microphorites erikai Microphorites extinctus Microphorites hamataculeus Microphorites magaliae Microphorites moravicus Microphorites oculeus Microphorites pouilloni Microphorites similis Microphorites utrillensis
Type: Microphorites extinctus
Ecology:
Distribution:
• Eocene of France (1 collection)
• Paleocene to Eocene of Czechia (1)
• Cretaceous of Ecuador (1), France (2), Lebanon (2), Myanmar (3), Spain (1)
Total: 11 collections including 14 occurrences
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