Insecta - Diptera - Chimeromyiidae

Full reference: D. A. Grimaldi and J. M. Cumming. 1999. Brachyceran Diptera in Cretaceous ambers and Mesozoic diversification of the Eremoneura. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 239:1-121

Belongs to Chimeromyia according to D. A. Grimaldi and J. M. Cumming 2009

See also Grimaldi and Cumming 1999

Sister taxa: Chimeromyia acuta, Chimeromyia alava, Chimeromyia burmitica, Chimeromyia intriguea, Chimeromyia mediobscura, Chimeromyia pilitibia, Chimeromyia vulloi

Type specimen: AMNH L-JS97, an exoskeleton. Its type locality is Lebanese amber, Jezzine (AMNH collection), which is in a Barremian terrestrial amber in Lebanon.

Ecology:

Distribution: found only at Lebanese amber, Jezzine (AMNH collection)

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