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 aurata, Tricyphona electrina, Tricyphona lepesca, Tricyphona sepulchralis, Tricyphona succinea
Type specimen: Ap12219, an exoskeleton. Its type locality is Baltic Amber, Palanga Amber Museum Collection, which is in a Priabonian terrestrial amber in Lithuania.
Ecology:
Distribution:
• Eocene of Lithuania (1 collection), the Russian Federation (1)
Total: 2 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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