†Eophlebotomus connectens Cockerell 1920 (moth fly)
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Insecta - Diptera - Psychodidae
Full reference: T. D. A. Cockerell. 1920. Fossil arthropods in the British Museum - IV. The Annals and Magazine of Natural History, Ninth Series 6:211-214
Belongs to Eophlebotomus according to F. Stebner et al. 2015
See also Azar et al. 2003, Cockerell 1920, Duckhouse 2000, Hennig 1972 and Ross and York 2000
Sister taxa: Eophlebotomus carentonensis, Eophlebotomus gezei
Type specimen: BMNH In. 20147, an exoskeleton. Its type locality is Burmese amber (Swinhoe collection, BMNH), which is in a Cenomanian terrestrial amber in Myanmar.
Ecology:
Distribution: found only at Burmese amber (Swinhoe collection, BMNH)
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