Corethrella (Corethrella) prisca Borkent and Szadziewski 1992

Insecta - Diptera - Corethrellidae

Alternative combination: Corethrella prisca

Full reference: A. Borkent and R. Szadziewski. 1992. The first records of fossil Corethrellidae (Diptera). Entomologica Scandinavica 22:457-463

Belongs to Corethrella (Corethrella) according to A. Pielowska et al. 2018

See also Borkent 2008, Borkent 2014 and Borkent and Szadziewski 1992

Sister taxa: Corethrella (Corethrella) baltica, Corethrella (Corethrella) dominicana, Corethrella (Corethrella) miocaenica, Corethrella (Corethrella) nudistyla, Corethrella (Corethrella) rovnoensis, Corethrella (Corethrella) sontagae

Type specimen: Its type locality is Bitterfeld amber (MfN collection), which is in a Priabonian terrestrial amber in Germany

Distribution: found only at Bitterfeld amber (MfN collection)

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