Megaselia Rondani 1856 (scuttle fly)

Insecta - Diptera - Phoridae

Parent taxon: Metopininae according to Y. C. Hong 2002

See also Carpenter 1992 and Solórzano Kraemer 2007

Sister taxa: Apocephalus, Gymnophora, Gymnophorini, Latiarista, Metopinini, Myriophora, Puliciphora, Sinophoritis

Subtaxa: Megaselia (Aphiochaeta) Megaselia (Megaselia)

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Ecology:

Distribution:

• Quaternary of Ghana (1 collection), Madagascar (1), Tanzania (1)

• Miocene of the Dominican Republic (1), Mexico (1)

• Oligocene of France (2)

• Eocene of China (1), the Russian Federation (3)

Total: 11 collections including 26 occurrences

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