Cretapsychoda inexpectata Azar et al. 1999 (moth fly)

Insecta - Diptera - Psychodidae

Full reference: D. Azar, A. Nel, M. Solignac, J. Paicheler, and F. Bouchet. 1999. New genera and species of psychodoid flies from the Lower Cretaceous amber of Lebanon. Palaeontology 42(6):1101-1136

Belongs to Cretapsychoda according to F. Stebner et al. 2015

See also Azar et al. 1999

Sister taxa: none

Type specimen: MNHN 110, an exoskeleton. Its type locality is Lebanese amber, Mdeyrij-Hammana (LU collection), which is in a Barremian terrestrial amber in Lebanon.

Ecology:

Distribution: found only at Lebanese amber, Mdeyrij-Hammana (LU collection)

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