†Prioriphora setifemoralis Brown and Pike 1990 (scuttle fly)
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Full reference: B. V. Brown and E. M. Pike. 1990. Three new fossil phorid flies (Diptera: Phoridae) from Canadian Late Cretaceous amber. Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences 27:845-848
Belongs to Prioriphora according to M. B. Mostovski 1999
See also Brown and Pike 1990
Sister taxa: Prioriphora canadambra, Prioriphora casei, Prioriphora cheburashka, Prioriphora longicostalis, Prioriphora luzzii, Prioriphora polyankae, Prioriphora schroederhohenwarthi
Type specimen: MCZ 6571, an exoskeleton. Its type locality is Cedar Lake (MCZ collection), which is in a Campanian terrestrial amber in Canada.
Ecology:
Distribution: found only at Cedar Lake (MCZ collection)
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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