†Cretaceogaster pygmaeus Teskey 1971 (soldier fly)
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Insecta - Diptera - Stratiomyidae
Full reference: H. J. Teskey. 1971. A new soldier fly from Canadian Amber (Diptera: Stratiomyidae). The Canadian Entomologist 103:1659-1661
Belongs to Cretaceogaster according to D. A. Grimaldi and J. M. Cumming 1999
See also Nagatomi and Yang 1998 and Teskey 1971
Sister taxa: none
Type specimen: MCZ 6954, an exoskeleton. Its type locality is Cedar Lake (MCZ collection), which is in a Campanian terrestrial amber in Canada.
Ecology:
Distribution:
• Cretaceous of Canada (2: Alberta, Manitoba collections)
Total: 2 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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