Full reference: S. B. Waters. 1989. A Cretaceous dance fly (Diptera: Empididae) from Botswana. Systematic Entomology 14:233-241
Belongs to Empis according to S. B. Waters 1989
Sister taxa: Empis (Acallomyia), Empis bulbirostris, Empis carbonum, Empis exilis, Empis florissantana, Empis infossa, Empis inscita, Empis macilenta, Empis macrophthalma, Empis mala, Empis malefica, Empis melia, Empis miocenica, Empis mordax, Empis morosella, Empis perdita, Empis personata, Empis poeppigi, Empis pulvillata, Empis spinifera, Empis stilicornis, Empis tibialis, Empis tritava, Empis umbonata
Type specimen: BP/2/26953, an exoskeleton (Complete Body). Its type locality is Orapa (Bernard Price Institute), which is in a Turonian lacustrine - large mudstone in Botswana.
Ecology:
Distribution: found only at Orapa (Bernard Price Institute)
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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