†Lestremia deploegi Nel and Prokop 2006 (gall midge)
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Insecta - Diptera - Cecidomyiidae
Full reference: A. Nel and J. Prokop. 2006. New fossil gall midges from the earliest Eocene French amber (Insecta, Diptera, Cecidomyiidae). Geodiversitas 28(1):37-54
Belongs to Lestremia according to R. J. Gagné and M. Jaschhof 2014
See also Nel and Prokop 2006
Sister taxa: Lestremia eocenica, Lestremia pinites
Type specimen: PA 1842, an exoskeleton. Its type locality is Oise amber, Le Quesnoy, which is in a Ypresian terrestrial amber in the Argiles d'lignite du Soissonnais Formation of France.
Ecology:
Distribution: found only at Oise amber, Le Quesnoy
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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