Rhamphomyia fulvescens Statz 1940 (dagger fly)

Insecta - Diptera - Empididae

Full reference: G. Statz. 1940. Neue Dipteren (Brachycera et Cyclorhapha) aus dem Oberoligozän von Rott. Palaeontographica Abteilung A 91:120-174

Belongs to Rhamphomyia according to G. Statz 1940

Sister taxa: Rhamphomyia ablata, Rhamphomyia aeterna, Rhamphomyia angusta, Rhamphomyia antipedalis, Rhamphomyia corrupta, Rhamphomyia craterae, Rhamphomyia crinitarsis, Rhamphomyia distans, Rhamphomyia enena, Rhamphomyia errabunda, Rhamphomyia formosa, Rhamphomyia fossa, Rhamphomyia hypolitha, Rhamphomyia inanimata, Rhamphomyia infernalis, Rhamphomyia insolita, Rhamphomyia interita, Rhamphomyia involuta, Rhamphomyia latipennata, Rhamphomyia media, Rhamphomyia morticina, Rhamphomyia obtusa, Rhamphomyia oedaloides, Rhamphomyia polymorpha, Rhamphomyia porrecta, Rhamphomyia pteropa, Rhamphomyia ptilopa, Rhamphomyia remitarsis, Rhamphomyia rottensis, Rhamphomyia senecta, Rhamphomyia sepulta, Rhamphomyia spodites, Rhamphomyia tumulata, Rhamphomyia ungulina

Type specimen: LACMIP 3640, an exoskeleton. Its type locality is Rott (Statz Collection), which is in a Chattian lacustrine - small shale in the Rott Formation of Germany.

Ecology:

Distribution: found only at Rott (Statz Collection)

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