Insecta - Diptera - Mycetophilidae

Full reference: V. A. Blagoderov and D. Grimaldi. 2004. Fossil Sciaroidea (Diptera) in Cretaceous ambers, exclusive of Cecidomyiidae, Sciaridae, and Keroplatidae. American Museum Novitates 3433:1-76

Belongs to Nedocosia according to S. S. Oliveira and D. D. S. Amorim 2021

See also Blagoderov and Grimaldi 2004

Sister taxa: Nedocosia canadensis, Nedocosia naiba, Nedocosia novacaesarea, Nedocosia sibirica

Type specimen: PIN 3130/193, an exoskeleton. Its type locality is Taimyr amber, Yantardakh Hill (PIN collection 3130), which is in a Santonian terrestrial amber in the Kheta Formation of the Russian Federation.

Ecology:

Distribution: found only at Taimyr amber, Yantardakh Hill (PIN collection 3130)

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