Kumaromyia Grimaldi and Hauser 2011 (fly)

Insecta - Diptera

Full reference: D. A. Grimaldi and M. Hauser. 2011. Taxonomic names, in Brachyceran Diptera (Insecta) in Cretaceous ambers, Part IV, significant new Orthorrhaphous Taxa. ZooKeys 148:293-332

Parent taxon: Asiloidea according to M. M. Solórzano Kraemer and J. M. Cumming 2019

See also Grimaldi and Hauser 2011, Winterton and Ware 2015 and Zhang et al. 2017

Sister taxa: Apsilocephalidae, Asilidae, Evocoidae, Kuhwahldyia, Myanmyia, Mydidae, Protapioceridae, Scenopinidae, Therevidae, Mythicomyiidae

Subtaxa: Kumaromyia burmitica

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Ecology:

Distribution: found only at Burmese amber, Kachin amber (AMNH collection) (Cretaceous of Myanmar)

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