†Tricyphona aurata Podenas 2001 (hairy-eyed cranefly)
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Insecta - Diptera - Pediciidae
Full reference: S. Podenas. 2001. New species of Tricyphona crane flies (Diptera: Pediciidae) from Baltic amber (Eocene). Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 151:31-39
Belongs to Tricyphona according to J. Q. Gao et al. 2015
See also Podenas 2001
Sister taxa: Tricyphona electrina, Tricyphona lepesca, Tricyphona residua, Tricyphona sepulchralis, Tricyphona succinea
Type specimen: ANSP 79948, an exoskeleton. Its type locality is Baltic Amber, ANSP collection, which is in a Priabonian terrestrial amber in the Russian Federation.
Ecology:
Distribution: found only at Baltic Amber, ANSP collection
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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