Insecta - Diptera - Atelestidae
Full reference: E. Peñalver and A. Arillo. 2007. A new species of the family Hybotidae in the Lower Cretaceous amber of El Caleyu (Asturias, Spain); Alavesia prietoi n. sp. Alavesia 1:63-68
Belongs to Alavesia according to E. Peñalver and A. Arillo 2007
Sister taxa: Alavesia (Pennonalavesia), Alavesia angusta, Alavesia brevipennae, Alavesia hadroceria, Alavesia lanceolata, Alavesia latala, Alavesia magna, Alavesia myanmarensis, Alavesia pankowskiorum, Alavesia spinosa, Alavesia subiasi, Alavesia tripudii, Alavesia zigrasi
Type specimen: DGO-3502, an exoskeleton (Female Adult). Its type locality is El Caleyu, which is in an Albian terrestrial amber/claystone in the Ullaga Formation of Spain.
Ecology:
Distribution: found only at El Caleyu
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