Insecta - Diptera - Psychodidae
Alternative combination: Idioplasta spectrum
Full reference: H. Loew. 1850. Ueber den Bernstein und die Bernsteinfauna. Programm der K. Realschule Meseritz 1850:1-44
Belongs to Macrochile according to K. Skibińska 2016
See also Alexander 1931, Dong et al. 2015, Krzemiński et al. 2013, Loew 1850, Meunier 1899, Meunier 1906 and Meunier 1917
Sister taxon: Macrochile hornei
Type specimen: Konigsberg 14543 VI 8383, an exoskeleton. Its type locality is Baltic amber, Konigsberg collection, which is in a Priabonian terrestrial amber in the Russian Federation.
Ecology:
Distribution:
• Eocene of Poland (2 collections), the Russian Federation (5)
Total: 7 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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